Category Archives: Spring

Name: Michelle Cavigliano
Location: Brooklyn, NY USA
Website: www.myzoetrope.com

How about a brief introduction?
Hello! I live in Brooklyn, with my boyfriend and kitty cat, and I love to paint. I’ve worked as a textile designer for the past five years, and I recently just quit to concentrate on my art full-time!

Who/what inspires you?
All things cute and silly! Nature/yummy food/books/movies/travel/friends!

What message would you like to send out about your work?
It makes my day when I see or hear that my work has made someone smile!

What is your biggest accomplishment to date?
I just hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru recently, and that was absolutely amazing and serene and inspiring! And then we biked 30 miles down a mountain into the jungle in the pouring rain! I also just quit my day job to work on my art full-time. This is an exciting year for me!

Share a secret with us!
I’m deathly afraid of squirrels…

Name: Lucy Davidson
Location: London, UK
Website: http://peasandneedles.blogspot.com

How about a brief introduction?
Hello I’m from London and I love to draw, I also love jumper wearing pugs, knitting, crochet, painting my studio and cheese. But I hate peas.

Who/what inspires you?
A lot of people inspire me, I think the internet is a wonderful thing, you can find so much inspiration I’d find it hard to just pick one. Everyday life and the people who are around me also inspire me a lot.

What message would you like to send out about your work?
I just draw what I feel like really, so I think that I would like people to not take my work to seriously and enjoy it as much as I enjoy creating it.

What is your biggest accomplishment to date?
I guess I would have to say graduating and managing to get an Illustration job which I enjoy. O and learning to handstand last week.

Share a secret with us!
I cant go to sleep without the television on, this is a very bad habit that I need to fix!

Name: Jen Collins
Location: Scotland
Website: www.hellojenuine.com

How about a brief introduction?
By day I work at an arts centre, & on evenings & weekends I work on my own creative things, be it on my own drawings, organising events or collaborating on projects. Illustration & being creative makes me happy, & I love having the freedom to do what I enjoy.

Who/what inspires you?
Sunny mornings, free time, meeting & talking to like-minded people, looking at the work of amazing illustrators & the hope that someday I can do creative things full-time!

What message would you like to send out about your work?
I enjoy life & what I do, & I hope my work reflects that. I’m not necessarily trying to send out a message, a lot of the time I’m just sharing a train of thought or actualising an idea but if someone takes something more from my work then that’s fine, but if they don’t then that’s okay too.

What is your biggest accomplishment to date?
Just being happy with where I am. There’s a lot to be said for being content. Not 100% of course, which is fine because that little extra bit of discontent drives me to keep making things better.

Share a secret with us!
I almost didn’t take Art at high school (despite being able to remember the awe I felt at about age four when I was told that you could make a living being an artist) because I was convinced I was going to be a vet. My old next door neighbour (who worked at my school) told my mum to make sure I took Art, & I grudgingly agreed. Eventually it transpired that I am really not that great at Maths/Chemistry, & I (re)realised that Art was awesome. My old neighbour did me a huge favour.