COMMISSION No.1: Selina Kerley

Never too sold on the Blogging thing - stored some negative opinion on the concept from an old acquaintance, who later turned out to be not only rather misinformed, but rather odd with it. Now I have a blog.

Only when I saw THIS blog, did I re-address my hard-wired thoughts, and inspiration overwhelmed my doubts.

Selina is an illustrator, whom I met studying down here on the south coast. She works with all manner of media, yet seems to be responsible for so much that I not only like, but that makes me like her more, and vice versa. As I say, it was the cleanliness and quality of her blog that made me create mine; that and the fact it just made me feel good.

I have decided that rather than posting random links to random artists that do random things; I would commission some of my favourite creatives to make work for me, my blog and you. This will, I hope, be a regular thing.

Since I am such a fan of Selina's work, and would not have a blog were it not for her, I have asked her to be my very first commision.

The piece below left is her piece for the blog, if you missed the link above, below right are some examples of her work.

Ishihara 11 & Blog

The Ishihara team are returning to Bournemouth for a three-day birthday show in November (18, 19 & 20th November 2009). The guys have set up shop, so to speak, in London, so this will be a great chance to celebrate all that's been achieved so far; right where it all started. I'm most definately showing, and might even throw in a little DJ set to boot (more details on both, to follow).

All flyers and posters are editions, so look out for them dotted about the place. Most of the flyers have been left blank, so folks can add their own take; each one is hand-numbered from one to five-hundred. The posters, of which select artists were commissioned, are in an edition of twenty-five. I have done a few flyers, and a poster too (see below).

I have been slowly putting together an archive of all past Ishihara exhibitions, with link-rich lists of all the artists who have shown. Please have a look; seeing them all in one place highlights the strength of work Ishihara has managed to show. You can look at the Blog here.