Deborah Sokell is a North East UK based designer/maker, who left her office job behind to pursue a more creative path. She currently runs two Folksy shops, the original Bee Honey Designs, selling one of a kind scarves, bags, textile flowers (and yes, Christmas decorations), and the newly-launched Bee Bears, offering gorgeous and unique, handmade [...]
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30 Days of Drawing #28: Interview with Annching Wang
I’m honoured to introduce you to Annching Wang – fashion designer, aspiring photographer, entrepreneur and blogger – for the final interview in July’s 30 Days of Drawing project. I absolutely admire Annching’s work ethic; her eye for colour and tactility, as seen in her garments for self-founded company Parker & Muse and in her aesthetically [...]
30 Days of Drawing #26: Interview with Gareth Southwell
Gareth Southwell is a freelance philosopher, illustrator and author. He started the brilliant thinkers’ resource Philosophy Online in 2000 as a means of supporting the students he was tutoring at the time and it has developed into an active philosophy forum and blog, with reviews, discussions and books for students and those generally interested in [...]
30 Days of Drawing #23: Interview with Stacey Williamson
Stacey Williamson is an artist / maker and entrepreneur working under the moniker Two For Joy. While her works begin as drawings, they become delicate, handmade paper cut-outs, preserving and transforming Stacey’s quality of line and form from pencil and ink to the fibre of the paper itself…
I spoke with her about her interest in [...]
30 Days of Drawing #18: Interview with Carlo Viglianisi
Giancarlo Viglianisi is a marvellous cartoonist, fine artist and energetic co-director of Empty Shop Gallery, Durham, UK. I chatted with him about his relationship to drawing, his take on influence and his award winning cartooning, as well as finding out about an upcoming collaboration between Empty Shop and Durham Art Gallery…
What got you into drawing [...]
