This Saturday Tooveys Auction house in Washington, West Sussex are holding their annual contemporary art auction. I’m joining in the fun this year and have submitted a couple of my most popular screen prints. It all kicks off at 6pm, I’ll be there but I expect I’ll leave the room and cringe as we wait for the bids to come in (or not) on my pieces!
The event is open to anyone to bid and the estimates are starting at around the £100 mark, so you could bag yourself a bargain.
Any idle moment browsing the net soon leads me to a search on mid-century illustration (it’s that or 1950s furniture-I’m currently lusting after a vintage cocktail bar for our new flat). The best place to find great examples is a splendid blog todaysinspiration which is updated pretty much every day.
It was here - via another link - that I found a flickr group of the most beautiful kids book illustrations. The pics that caught my eye were by one Aurelius Battaglia. A bit of googling will hopefully shed more light on this artist but for now feast your eyes on these pages as found on flickr. I can’t get enough of the stunning colours and elegant, angular styling so typical of this period.
These images are a little blurry as they seem to be photos rather than scans but view the slideshow to see a bigger version in all its Techni-color glory.
