THE DOLS HAVE COME OUT TO PLAY MAS!

Pretty colours, beads and glitter! Lots and Lots of Glitter!

These are just some of the things I like about carnival. The things I like about playing mas.

When I was a child I loved to 'play dress up'. I Loved the 'What do you want to be when you grow up ' play. Everyday I could be something else, reinvent myself. I loved pretending to be someone else, creating characters, dressing up in clothes that were not my own, applying way too much make up and living a new character. To me this 'play', this dress up game was how my mind interpreted carnival. It was the greatest prettiest dress up show ever and because my first memories of carnival was not 'Kiddies Carnival' but instead it was seeing my aunts and uncles play adult mas I thought it was something you did as an adult. That big people get to play 'dress up' to. These 'big people' in their gorgeous, colourful glittering costumes and made up faces made me ooo and ahhhhh.... I wanted to be that pretty when I grow up. That beautiful and shiny and sexy and womanly. When I grow up I wanted to play mas!



This is one 'Carnival dols' I painted.
This was fun.
They're all 16x20 inches.

(It's actually not complete though. I'm adding a collage feature to them by building over the bras in gemstones.)

NB. Pieces to on exhibit 16 Feb 2009 at In2Arts Gallery

Some new work and the introductoin of my new character 'Hyper Monkey'

"Dol" coming soon...

Why did i become a graphic designer instead of an artist? I love the ability designers have to communicate and access the public. I love the combination of content driving form and and artistic intuition with intent and I really liked how being an illustrator allowed me to enjoy being the artist and the designer and 'make things'. Make things hopefully people like and hopefully people who like them can access and own and have. Doing the "Dol" is an expressive journey i'm enjoying exploring. The limited printed vest I think is another extension of that journey as a graphic designer and illustrator I'd like to explore. So look out for it and hopefully you enjoy them to.

"Indian"

"Indian" .... I have a "Darkie" painting a "Maggie Red" an East Indian was soon to come and now it has.

What a fun contrast this was to the "Hindu Princess".

Like the others, she to has creatures of nostalgia and ephemera lurking in her sub- conscious making 'peek-a-boo' appearances from her unresolved state of growth and change.

I put all the bad thoughts. All the bad memories behind me. But they seem to reappear at the most unexpected and unwelcomed moments. They jump out and scream “Peek-a-boo, I didn’t forget you!” How do you forgive and forget, when you can’t forget at all? I just turned my back on it.

New Dols

'Self-Preservation'

Self-preservation is Golden! If only I'd learn that lesson earlier in life i wouldn't have to grip onto it like a drunk and his bottle. Like you're trying to take my essence from me...My sexy, my 'girly' my innocence, my spirit..