A new exhibition and a new agent

You may have realised that I have not been blogging here since the end of 2019; when all of Australia seemed to be on fire. I was so traumatised by what I could see was happening, so many lives lost; people and animals. Then we had Covid. Rather than dwelling on these sad events and all the other weather events that have caused so much heartache, my focus is on helping us to make our lives more beautiful and to help to promote the conservation of our environment and nature.

I now have an art licensing agent, Suzanne Cruise Creative Services. If you are looking for art for your products, Cruise Creative have a platform I am so happy to announce that I am now represented by Suzanne Cruise Creative Services. It has been a journey to get to this point since having left teaching behind and learning about surface pattern design and art licensing. It was always my dream to make illustration my focus rather than graphic design and have an agent to work with so this is a dream coming true for me. Teaching Visual Communication and Illustration was a joy and I often felt so fortunate to be paid to teach and work with my lovely students but it also meant that I was doing less of my own work and although the University kept stating that they were all about staff having a good work/life balance, that was not how I was finding things in the end. Now I get to create every day; to design and illustrate surface patterns for textiles, wallpaper, greeting cards and home decor products. I keep a list of stockists and outlets for my designs and art on my Shop page on my website and I will keep you updated here of any new events or offers here. I will be summarising the contents and sending it out as a newsletter, which you can sign up for here.

Please let me know how I can help you. I have been considering mentoring and a Skillshare class and would love to know if there is something I can cover that would suit you.

During the last fortnight, I took part in an exhibition called “It’s all in the Detail”, in a local gallery, Cstudios Art Gallery. The exhibition focus was Natural History and Illustration exhibition so I got to exhibit with some ex-students and colleagues from the Natural History Illustration degree, which I had also taught on.

• I shall be at Lambton Park for the next Hunter Arts Network Art Bazaar on the 26th March 2023 and I will be on the NCEATA stand with my tea towels, greeting cards and some other interesting items. I will add the stand number and location in my social media and also here.

GROW - an Illustrators Australia exhibition

I am a member of Illustrators Australia and every year we have a group exhibition. This year’s exhibition is called GROW, to celebrate the group being in existence for 30 years. It is a group for illustrators run by it’s members. The exhibition is a 9x5 Exhibition and it has been held at the Victorian Artist’s Society and it pays homage to the Heidelberg School's famous paintings on little wooden cigar boxes.

My work was printed onto wood by @printonwood.

It is an amazing exhibition which opened last week, so if you’re in Melbourne, it’s a great exhibition to visit.

This exhibition is open daily in the Hammond Gallery until Monday 16 December at 4pm at the Hammond Hall, The Victorian Artist’s Society, 430 Albert Street, East Melbourne.

Happy April and my latest 100 day challenge →

I hope you all had a great start to the new year. quite a few things have taken place since my last post which I will post about in other posts.

I am taking part in another #the100dayproject as a 100 day project is a great way to choose a project and focus on that for 100 days and it’s more fun doing so with others.For my project, I am also joining @victoriajohnsondesign and focusing on illustrating #birdsbutterfliesandblooms with my own angle, #playingwithtechniques. There are some approaches to mark making that I would like to experiment with and this project is ideal for that type of experimentation.

You can follow along on my business account https://www.facebook.com/DanielaGlassop/ or my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/danielaglassop/

It’s not too late to join in with your own project and hashtag.

My Spoonflower calendar tea towel design for 2019

Every year I like to produce at least one tea towel design with a calendar. I love beautiful textiles in my home and the calendar option seems to be a very popular for gifts around Christmas time. I will also offer a version without the calendar and I am thinking of offering the painted illustration as an art quality (giclee) print.

The illustration is based on the Chinoiserie style and includes Australian native birds and some native Australian flora as well and was hand painted with a watercolour wash and then gouache was used over the top of the wash.  I have placed the calendar at the top of the design so that the illustration shows when you hang your tea towel.

The birds on the calendar are from bottom left; Spotted Parladote, Purple Crowned Fairy Wren (on the blue bird house),  White Plumed Honeyeater above, centre and the bird on the green bird house is a Chestnut Rumped Heath Wren. The native flowers that have been included are Black Wattle, Flannel Flowers, Pincushion Hakea and the pink flowers have been inspired by some simple roses at the Botanical Gardens, Mount Tambourine, Queensland, Australia.

The tea towel will be available from my Spoonflower shop as fabric, which you can cut and sew yourself.  Linen cotton canvas is good for tea towels, and you'll need one fat quarter for one tea towel. If you would like to be notified when the design or stitched tea towels are available, please sign up for the newsletter so I can keep you informed.