Dench Bakery. Melbourne. Au.

Even though i've been told i'm the only person in the Northside of Melbourne that still drinks coffee with chocolate sprinkles on (cappuchinos are soo last year darl! ).. John Dench, master baker of Victoria trusted me to decorate his cafe on Scotchmer St.North Fitzroy.
I drew a Faye Suzannah style wheaty pattern in a custard yellow with sourdough coloured details whilst i sipped my soya capp and wondered what all the fuss was with Australia Day anyway.

Many thanks to little miss Laura here who not only totally hooked me up with caffine and walls to keep me well busy during my time in Melbs, but makes wonderful things from wool and string in her spare time.

Considering my history of bread and toast art, i think Dench and I may have a future together

Milk and Honey Mullumbimby

> Subject: mural milk and honey mullum
> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:39:33 +1100
>
> hi faye
> like the look of your work
> interested in what you can do for our boring walls
> you came in yesterday afternoon, milk and honey in mullum
> we are closed from dec 24 to jan 4, would be a good time to do something
> give us a call 6684 ****
> chris

The festive season was an absolute smash for us all here in Mullumbimby. Inbetween beach trips and birthday parties we also got some work done. Milk and Honey pizza restaurant had a break from the woodfired oven and we got busy on the walls. Massive respect, thanks and happy new year wishes to the Pellen family for knowing what they wanted and trusting us to paint with hangover shakes!

Before and After.

Of course i had my bestest helper to make it all even more worth it!

The Echo. Pen is mightier than the sword

In the heart of the Byron Shire NSW, is a little local newspaper called the Echo that used to have a daggy wall in their publishing office. They published my advert , which is my first EVER form of advertising.....and then were then kind enough to give me a job that kept me busy as the christmas rain fell outside..

Here i am not flaunting it on the beach in a bikini as u all expect me to be doing x x
painty xmas love from across the globe.

Butterfly kitchen

silver linings and purple wings

Dark times make us stronger in the long-run. The kitchen of 38 Bove Town is heavy with history and packed with paternal presence but slowly it is starting to shine...... i'm making it mine :)

Tutto il mondo e paese

The Whole world is a village

Because the whole world is like a village and you meet the same people again and again when you least expect it.. i'm not sad to empty my room and leave my cosy cottage corner of London in Italian and Irish hands. We had a great WestEnd year and i've a feeling ill see some of these faces along the global camino at some point.

Fentiman flowers

Well i don't know exactly how many hours i've spent on the number 36 bus this week, but thanks to rubbish weather and last minute staff meetings at the pool, a 2 day mural turned into a week long one. I bused back and forth from west to south London alot, but i got to see my favourite 3 year old a whole lot more than planned :)

Interior AND Exterior japanese flower pattern for my london family

Particularly happy with the warming, colours and the way it winds through the house

Rufus did his best to explain to me that we wern't allowed to draw on the walls but i did it anyway. when he gets bigger me and R are going to have so much fun!

Multimedia Birds at the cottage

The bird Chronicles:

A flock of birds flying across the room is a very nice idea. My approach to expressing this artistic vision, over the last 10 months, has gone from this:......IN LONDON E3 LAST WINTER....

To this..... In the Brixton Bovril building in May........

To this .........IN THE STAIRCASE OF MY VERY OWN SQUATTERS COTTAGE W10

Wallpapering photocopies and mixing turquoise paints in empty honey jars,are my favourite things to do at the moment. So i stayed in all weekend and did just that..
From the centre of my silly shared squat house i could hear the following.... Hot97 fm on permanently in the kitchen. keyboard practice from mr JC downstairs. Bikeracing on tv from the room of mr DH , French cinema on high volume in the front room from CB, and mixes from these boys from back home from my own speakers just behind. Somehow though i don't think any amount of noise will prepare us for the NottingHillCarnival next weekend!


BlueNote Cafe Glastonbury

Blue Note 14/8/2010
Those of you who think Glastonbury is just a festival are missing out. It is in fact the best home town any girl could wish for. After having copied, cut out, pasted, drawn and of course painted my way through a weeks worth of jazz records and mexican mosiac triangles whilst being surrounded by almost ALL of my favourite people ..I now feel more in love with Mid Somerset than ever before...

After the very vague briefing of "mexican music diner" (thanks Caelie)........ i think we pulled it off with tortilla chips growing on trees and a photocopied record library. ...
Sadly there is not live Blues music played in this cafe but there is great coffee and foods fit for hippies. oh,... and nachos. :)

Sunflower symphony

All the sun i've been catching between British festival fields, Portugese islands and london gardens. . . . .

has inspired me to use these girasol coloured paints to make something stunning. a True celebration of my latest return to London W10...

“
Thanks for bringing so much energy to our garden.!”

— Deborah, homeowner. London. UK

Art Nouveux Frome

Art Nouveaux marathon

One magnificent days work in the sleepy village of Frome, Somerset
That's murals to fit ANY space.. yes even under the stairs

KIng Chameleon

Nuno Marques is a Portugese biologist. Also known as king Chameleon. If you ask him nicely he will take you on an ecological tour of the Olhao islands of the Algarve in his boat.... or take you on long walks with his 4 dogs on the Armona sand dunes. But if your really lucky....he will invite you to paint his garden wall in the sun and eat grillled fish everyday with his beautiful girlfriend, wonderful family and hilarious friends.

Here is me thinking, yeah life is good.,

Vera and Chester helping out inbetween laughs and awesome meals

And the before shot of Nunos yard.

Grand Union Brixton

Grand Union. 123 Acre lane Brixton

When i was 18 and i took my first trip across the equator, i had no idea that hanging out on Thai islands, drinking thai whiskey and scuba diving would lead to this.

An 8year old sketchbook full of drawings like these, taught me a new and beautiful lesson in why small pocket sized records of visual experiances are important for more than your memories .

Forget the dover bookshop , i'm planning on traveling more of the world with glue, scissors and a pencil and creating my own image bank.

4 huts, 4 themes 4 days and one fantastic assistant. Helen you rule.!
HELEN RULES......>check out her blog

Birthday birds. Rushcroft terrace.

Why i am spending so much time up ladders??? why?? because i love it and i love you!!!
this weeks hard work payed off amazingly in smiles and laughter.. and even some tears.

This bird wall was whipped up whilst i was still incredibly wobbly from the night before.

I started at lunchtime and was done by the time the other birthday girl got home form work. The best way to spend my birthday .Dove suprise for Jeanne

And also this week i decorated this warehouse wall in time for a wedding anniversary !

Funtimes all round!

Mau Mau Portobello Rd

This week i left my brush marks on a wall i've had my eye on for years.... 3 day+night shifts in the heart of Portobello at the MauMau Bar was a Westlondon dream come true. Shame about the photo quality!
So many walls not enough time..... x

Made in Brasil. Camden Town

The sun shone all of last week on Inverness St, London N1

PLUS i got to listen to latin music and eat feijoadas whilst i worked.
Camden is full of characters it's a joy to get to know it.