Tim's magical wonderland ♡

Hello lovelies! Thought I'd do a little post on the current Tim Walker exhibition on at Somerset House,

Tim Walker is right up there as one of my main creative inspirations, he is just amazing, namely why I decided to write my dissertation on him, which (aside from the scary technicality of the marking of my writing side) I am absolutely loving!

His style - influenced by a love of all things childlike and fairytale is just so perfect, and I'm loving discovering new films and ways of seeing things just through researching into his ideas behind each shoot.

Since I first saw the candy kittens in the garden and the ribbon tied house from his last book 'Pictures', I've been hooked... you can see my earlier blog post with all my love for that HERE !

On Wednesday night me and my friend Phoebe went a talk he gave all about his ideas and feelings about Photography, and really his vision is just incredible. He full on follows his imagination for pictures hooking into that bit of  daydream and exploiting it into something truly excessive and magical that draws us into a world that can only be in the clouds of our dreams.  

My favourite part had to be the giant sized doll fro January Vogue Italia's 'Like a Doll' shoot & the Spitfire that was crashing through the walls. We were lucky enough to meet the magical man himself too! - Pretty starstruck!

Anyway here are a few sparkly pictures I took! Hope you enjoy and are having wonderful weekends!  Lots of love x x x 

Unicorns, Tiaras & Flower Crowns♡

So I have been a bit absent from blogging for quite a while - I've had quite a busy up and down couple of weeks (both in travelling brum-london-brighton) and also emotionally due to the super sad passing of my lovely auntie joan. 


But I'm focussing on the magical wonderful moments and times, and its really kick started me into wanting to do more with every day, so I've embarked again on quite a few little sewing projects & also with some new drawings! 


I also spent last weekend reunited with lovely Tatty Devine ladies working at the super sample sale, & doing some exciting work with one of my favourite prop designers. Here's a mini collage of things recent:

Top Row: Me & Emily at Tatty Devine wearing the gorgeous new Tiara's Tatty has made for the Jubilee, I totally fell in love with the turquoise (bit of a branch out from my usual pinkness) & am now the happy owner of one, second picture is it in all it's sparkle in box, Sleeping Beauty when the prince finds here (will always be one of my favourite films and this scene is just so perfect!).

Second Row: A yellow and rose headband I made from the old tatters of a crown I'd gotten at glastonbury - I filled it with lots of new flowers ready to be worn again (:, A sneaky peak of the first of my new enchanted princess style drawings & my floral headband making kit - petals, wire, various roses, all scattered on my bed.

Third Row: The result of my floral headband making session for summer, this was the one with the most beasty flowers,  I now have about 5! (more photos on instagram - rosepetaldeer), A gorgeous copy of Sleeping Beauty & one of my headbands drying out on my bunny light (: (they were on every surface at one stage).

Fourth Row: One of my favourite Tim Walker Shoots - Vogue Christmas 2004, I've spent quite a long time recently in Brighton libary looking through old vogues finding all his original shoots as pre planning for my dissertation - I ended up spending hours and hours just transfixed by too many distracting editorials - This particular one saw Tim take up pretty much half of Vogue with a Pantomime themed shoot which was so enchanting - the props are just insane - I can't even begin to imagine the work in setting it all up!, Me at the Tatty sale in my Tiara, some gorgeous pink petaled flowers.

Fifth  Row: A beautiful illustration from an old children's book about a unicorn, The lisbon sisters (a photograph in a 90's vogue talking about the film pre it coming out) & a little drawing I did of a rainbow unicorn (:

Hope your all having beautiful weekends and managed to enjoy the glimmer of sunshine I caught a bit of today! I will hopefully be posting much more regularly again now my head is a little less scrambley <3 

A final note - a picture of my auntie looking super beaut at her wedding - She was such an amazing person with a truly fantastic heart, I have no doubt that she's in a wonderful place, RIP, 

Lots of Love x x x x 

Lily in 'a shattered dolls dreamworld' & Tim Walker♡

So last night I started having a catchup with what my absolute favourite Photographer Tim Walker has been up to these past few months, and to my utter delight..discovered he is working towards both a new book and exhibition later this year!

I've been infatuated by Tim's work ever since I noticed him in Vogue, and then saw his pastel pink cats many years ago, he's so insanely talented, and is a true example of how imagination and dreams really can happen - he makes the world he fantasises come true, and all without any digital input (all his photographs are film based with no after edits). 

His photographs absolutely hypnotise me, into an entrancing land of beautiful props, childhood storytelling and British eccentricity. I decided last year he is definitely going to be the subject matter of my dissertation, and really can't wait for a chance to look deeper at even more of his work, it's just a whole new level of fairytale <3

Here's an illustration I did last year based on Lily Cole & some of his photographs

'a shattered dolls dreamworld'

This is one of my absolute favourites from one of his Vogue Spreads..<3

The Beautiful Pictures book where I get many a dose of beautiful sugary inspiration <3

and the fantastic shoot where they covered an old mansion in balloons...!

A couple of other beauties (there are way too many I could have posted :))

  

There's been so much talk on the internet this past year about his film which he describes  'my-lemon curd-and-honey vision just got darker', which intrigues me so much, the most I've found about it is the beautiful book & trailer...which is 

beautiful....

                                       

Does anyone know of anywhere it's watchable online/can be bought? I'd be so grateful! Lots of Love! x x x