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I work in television, or there abouts. When I'm not working I like to draw, write and take photographs. I create images by illustrating over photographs and trashing them, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I always have a sketchbook nearby as Ideas come and go like clouds. My main influence's are modern illustrators such as Deanne Cheuk, Yoshitomo Nara, Marion Lefebvre, and I love New York painter Jonathon Viner. I have a million favorite artists who I wish I could imitate in some small way, such as Frieda Khalo, Dagas and Toulouse Lautrec and I adore looking at old and new photographs.

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Our family tree Oct 19

I wen't back to see my nan. I remembered while we talked that I did not actually know her age, and although she may once have concidered it rude of me to ask I think that time has passed...

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Email:

gemmasrubyslippers@hotmail.com

Words:

"Fire leapt through the house making the night glow red - the girl lay under the oak tree, asleep, or passed out, I can not tell. I see no colours but the words violet and grey. Her clothes are muddied but of great beauty. No expression lye's upon her face, she is of no identity"

Turns me on

Graphic art, illustration, a French accent, waves, old cars, photo's, wallpaper, good food, wine, art deco, printing blocks, ink pens, spray cans, dressing up boxes.

I want to

go out, see people and take pictures, draw and plan, design and make lists, travel and see for myself, cook big dinner for all my friends, learn my guitar, learn French, ride an elephant, help someone, meet people who inspire me, do my family tree.

I love to be

outside with friends, with a drink in my hand, in a corn field under a blue sky, in Bristol in summer when people have time to just sit, in a venue waiting for a band to play, watching a french film, in water waiting a wave, at a party dressed in costume pulling faces at camera's and laughing, romancing with wine in some nice resturant, dancing with friends on a busy floor, outside somewhere beautiful.

I listen to

Feist, Melenie, Bjork, Pj Harvey, Goldfrapp, nouvelle vague, CSS, Patrick Wolf, New young pony club.

I watch

Science of sleep, Endless sunshine of a spotless mind, Little miss sunshine, A matter of life and death, Manhattan, Withnail and I, DIG, Amilie, City of lost children, Rope, The birds, Twin peaks, Sean of the dead, Frieda, The kid stays in the picture, Carrie, Lost in translation, The matrix, Lost boys, Silance of the lambs, Pulp fiction.