Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 49

We LOVE research and learning as a way to get inspired and boost ideas and creativity!! So, Kenzie and I are going to be sharing the inspiration that we collect here in our second newsletter…. once a week!!!

Here’s how it works:

We provide the inspiration. You interpret it however you wish… any medium, any size. It is meant to inspire lettering and floral art combined together. But, you can:

Just do the florals, just do the lettering, or combine them together.
Use the provided quote for your piece or select your own.
Use colors from one of the inspiration images or select your own favorites
Create the floral art… as a still life in a vase, a single flower, a border, a pattern, a bouquet

Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2024 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

Quote of the week…

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.”

– Neil Gaiman

Inspirational Artist of the week: Mark Hearld

Born 1974, based in York, Mark Hearld is endlessly inspired by nature, creating exuberant, joyful and vibrant collages. He is an artist and designer whose distinctive style is influenced by mid-twentieth-century neo-romanticism, the gaiety of 1930s modernism and British folk art. Mark Hearld is inspired by artists such as Eric Ravilious, John Piper and Edward Bawden.

Mark Hearld has an unbridled passion for making, and his extraordinary creativity leads to collaborative projects with artists and traditional craft makers across multiple disciplines.

Collage is central to Mark Hearld’s artistic output, not only as a medium but as a process that is firmly rooted in twentieth-century art. Collage was a technique used by Matisse, Picasso and John Piper to introduce abstraction into their images. Mark similarly uses this means of abstraction, combined with his traditional academic training and careful observation, to inform his creativity.

Mark Hearld studied Illustration at Glasgow School of Art before completing an MA in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art. Mark works across a number of mediums, producing limited-edition lithographic and linocut prints, unique paintings, and hand-painted ceramics, as well as collage. His work is now exhibited all over the UK, including several solo exhibitions, most notably with Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Mark Hearld is in demand as a curator of exhibitions and collections, including The British Folk Art Collection at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, for which he produced new work in response to the collection.

Hand lettering artist of the week: David Shillinglaw

David Shillinglaw is a London-based British artist. A jack-of-all-trades, he has worked as a theatre set designer, illustrated album cover designs and created installations all around the world. From street to studio, from paintings on canvas to large-scale murals, from hand made books to collages on wood, Shillinglaw has developed an extremely broad portfolio of art works.

The bulk of Shillinglaw’s work consists of colourful, folk-inspired human faces. Visually formed by hundreds of smaller shapes and other body parts they are reminiscent of more friendly and subtle pop art works. Humanizing his art, Shillinglaw attempts to put the thoughts running through his head into wild pieces of colour and shape adding the perceptual concern of his journey as a man with his own sense of humour. In the end all his work is simply about showing different sides of people and human nature, both the civilized and monstrous, stupid and articulate. A graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Shillinglaw has gone on to exhibit his work around the globe as part of collaboration and solo shows.