Nicola's No Ordinary World is made from recycled objects and gourds.

Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Facebook Author Page

I am pleased to let you know that I have finally set up a Facebook Author Page. As time goes by I shall add more info to it and hopefully people will start asking me questions.

Click here to be taken to the Facebook Page.

Sunday, 22 July 2018

Illustration of a Forest

Illustrations for my book The Gribble's Gift.

The illustrating of book is an individual thing. I do not consider myself an illustrator, even though others do. To me an illustrator can make drama, emotion, action come alive on the page. I am not able to do that but even though I can not I seem to be able to do something. And something is better than nothing.

First, I have decided to pay for a professional artist to do my front cover. That is a story in itself and I won't bother telling it here. So I decided to concentrate on the internal images.

I am presenting you with the final version, the last of twenty-one versions, of of an image of one of my characters walking along a branch in a huge ancient forest. Hope you like it.

Friday, 23 February 2018

Illustration for Book

I know I have been amiss when posting to this blog but I do have an excuse, I have been drawing the illustrations for my up coming fantasy novel that I will be self publishing. It will be called The Gribble's Gift.

I have spent weeks making the cover - see below. I just have to add the words that pepper the cover of a book.

The front, the spine and the back of my book The Gribble's Gift.

Saturday, 2 December 2017

Exhibition - Do You Bee-lieve

I really should have put this post up a long time ago. I am just soo busy making mushrooms.
I am very proud to say that three of my hanging houses are presently at the display Do You Bee-lieve at Old Petrie Town, Brisbane. Queensland, Australia.

This is the second time I have been asked to display my work there and I must say Jules and Chris have out done themselves this year. There is a wedding this year between dragons!

I was asked to enjoy a day at one of the Tea Parties that are held before the exhibition is officially opened for the season.

I am soo pleased to be included in this.

Jules placing models into position.

No Ordinary World

The world is awash with the refuse of the human race, but what if some of it could be reused?

In years gone by a place of sanctuary was required to hide from the fears infesting the mind. A world of fantasy grew all around comforting the spirit. Then imagination was not enough. It was necessary to touch what was once thought, tread the paths woven in the mind, to feel the essence of one's dreams, to walk through what was no ordinary world.

But how?

With gourds in one hand and decades of casts off from a life of hording in another, order grew. With plastic, string, balloons and more, plants, fungi and creatures appeared beneath the fingers that wove them into existence. Homes appeared, small, delicate and secretive, filled with the waste thrown away by human beings. Layers of life surrounded them. A touch of nature was added. The earthiness of the gourd embodied them with an essence that made one believe that this could all be real.

As stories began to be told through the written word, the models, entwined within, both grew in size, width and depth.

Strangers looked upon a world that was like no other. It was tactile, full of layers, it drew them in and, with their imaginations ablaze they too now wandered the paths that lay before them lost in the innocence of a childhood long since gone.

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