North Wales

South London Tripstitch

I've been working on a number of projects, one being the new Nest Gallery exhibition, opening in November at the Department of Coffee and Social Affairs in Clerkenwell. Anna Lincoln and I have been working with the Exhibition Curator of the space and five other Nest artists to put together 'The Great Outdoors'. Currently the work is in progress, we're going to print soon and things are gradually building momentum. My work is a series of three embroideries depicting South London, in particular three stops starting at the Heygate Estate and finishing at the Camberwell end of Coldharbour Lane, close to my house. Above is a preview of my 'Heygate Ladies' embroidery, the first of the 'tripstitch' (phrase coined by Anna).

Grayson Perry at Victoria Miro

Grayson Perry's beautiful tapestries depicting the three British class systems and their presence in modern times is on at Victoria Miro. Managed to get over to it last week. Very inspiring.

Made in Clerkenwell - Craft Central Open Studios

A little late, but last month we went down to Craft Central Open Studios to see some lovely applied arts. We had a look at the studios of Jessica de Lotz and TurnbullGrey as well as these - From the top - Lok Ming Fung, Haidee Drew, Vic Lee, Helen Beard, The Big Forest and Ikuko Iwamoto.

Illustration for Identity

I recently completed a series of draft illustrations for a potential client who wanted hand-drawn sketched illustrations showing Mac products working in harmony. The concept was of the products as an orchestra. Although the work wasn't used, I am happy with the drawings.

inc. magazine - Issue 5

inc. magazine have released issue 5 - The Postcard Issue. 27 poems...27 illustrations. You can buy a copy here. This is the illustration I did for 'A House Marks Time' by Nancey Charley. Cover artwork by Sister Arrow.

Bologna

Inspired by the colours and shapes of our Bologna trip.

New business cards

Business cards with some old artwork and some new artwork (waiting on them to be published...!) - celebrating the new website.

reenamakwana.com

I've got a website - set up by design whizz Max Wilson of O.W.H Creative (he's the 'W'). Bookmark it on your browser and I'll update it with new things as well as keeping track of things on here.

Have a look -

Reena Makwana

Woodpecker Wooliams

An illustration I did for Issue 13 of DrunkenWerewolf for Woodpecker Wooliams is on her site - enjoy the website here - here.