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Category Archives: Artist Interviews

Lily Cole’s ‘Who Cares Wins’: A Journey from Tech-Utopia to Indigenous Wisdom

November 21, 2020by harrietbottom Leave a comment

A few days before our interview, I’m struck by an Instagram video of Lily Cole swimming underwater in a bright turquoise stream of ocean bubbles. I’d spent the last few weeks immersed […]

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Kenopsia, Surrealism and the power of imagination during isolation

October 31, 2020by harrietbottom Leave a comment

Becky Scott has always loved collecting words. But when she found herself remote working in an abandoned ‘80s office building, during Lockdown, she discovered an especially fitting descriptor. One that […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Artist Interviews, Interviews, Philosophy, Thoughts

‘When we describe colour, we are poets’; an interview with artist and paint manufacturer, Michael Harding

January 20, 2018by harrietbottom 2 Comments

Read about someone who creates colour, talk about its essence Michael Harding is a paint manufacturer and handmakes artist’s oil paints. I met him at a launch for his new […]

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Just lines and curves: An interview with Alexa Coe

August 9, 2017by harrietbottom Leave a comment

  A London based artist with a background in fashion illustration and a degree from Central Saint Martins. Interviewed by New York magazine, Howl, a bespoke illustrator for Miller Harris perfumer, […]

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Wearing a genderless face

June 28, 2017by harrietbottom 4 Comments

I’ve long been an admirer of artists’ line drawings. The minimalism has such an elegance to it. Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse are known for the abstract approach, Picasso used to practise […]

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Beautifully Unique, Pressed Flower Phone Cases

August 30, 2016by harrietbottom Leave a comment

As our phones have grown attached to our palms and synchronised to our thumbprints, it’s inevitable that they should become an extension of their owner’s individuality too. No one’s boobs, knees, […]

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The artist with an appetite for colour

July 11, 2016by harrietbottom 1 Comment

An interview with Margrethe Odgaard. Imagine a rural Scandinavian farmhouse with a dreaming, dark-haired girl lazing in long grass. Without a TV in the house and far from popular culture, her […]

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Lily Cole, the gift economy & fashion for good

August 11, 2015by harrietbottom Leave a comment

A model and actress with the right attitude. There’s no doubt that Lily Cole is an iconic beauty, a red-headed tribute to the Pre-Raphaelite era. I could write an article […]

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Is your experience of colour different to your colour vision?

April 12, 2015by harrietbottom 7 Comments

Take #thatdress… If one person sees blue and black in the photograph and another sees white and gold, can they both be right with their colour experience? I’m sitting here […]

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