Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all my painty friends, students, clients and colleagues! May your art shine like the North Star, Your snowflakes sparkle like tinsel, Your reindeer spring like robins, And your holly jingle like sleigh bells!
Inspired by Marianne North for the BodyFactory
This year’s BodyFactory event was held at the horticultural wonderland of the Eden Project in St Austell, Cornwall. With this as a backdrop, I couldn’t resist casting my lovely model Laura J Draycon as Marianne North, the amazing Victorian artist and botanist who travelled the world painting hundreds of plant portraits that now hang in a special gallery in Kew Gardens.
BodyFactory 2015 – this weekend at the Eden Project
This coming weekend – 10-11 October – I’m off to BodyFactory 2015, the fabulous biennial British body painting festival that attracts a big international crowd. Body painters, models and photographers all work together to stretch our imaginations and skills. It’s a great chance to to let rip and create something truly special! And I’m really looking forward to exploring the wonders of the visionary Eden Project in St Austell, Cornwall. For more details, BodyFactory 2015.
A special tea party at Great Ormond Street
This is me at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at Great Ormond Street the other week. I was really chuffed to hear from them: “Dear Juliet, On behalf of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, thank you so much for your generous support of The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party …The party was a great success, with patients and their families all having a wonderful time … The amazing face-painting that you so kindly provided at the party was a huge hit with the patients.” All that and I got to wear a top hat, too!