Two Magpies ready to install and open!

Lots more work to be done yet, but we're looking forward to hang-time tomorrow.  All three artists will be at the opening party on Tueday 23rd November, 7-9pm, with extra work on show, cards and badges to buy. If you'd like to come just contact us and we'll send you an invite.

Here are a few more images of work going in the show, by 'Magpie' Anna Vartiainen.  All her drawings are pen on paper.  Many are inspired by her annual family trips to the southern Finnish archipelago, and others take a playful look at English scenery and pretty gardens, and how they become creepy, haunting places as night draws in.


Retkisaari (Picnic Island), 2009




Pine, 2008




Monstertrees, 2010

Seiko Kato joins our show

Thanks to a chance encounter this weekend at a little craft fair at Friends' Meeting House, the brilliant collage artist Seiko Kato is joining in our show at Northern Lights next week!

On her website http://www.seikokato.com/ you can browse her Victoriana-inspired collage, snipping up encyclopaedias and medical illustrations to build her fantastical creations.

We can't wait to work with her!  You can find her designs and jewellery in Brighton's North Laines and the Handmade shop in Kemp Town.

Final design

We decided on this grey version - a bit more twilight.

The Garden: New show at Northern Lights

Our new flyer!

New show!

The clock is ticking and tocking, and we have decided to do a show at almost the last minute ... but what fun would it be without a bit of a close deadline?  This time, it's our work we are focusing on, and we have 6 weeks booked at Northern Lights bar at 6 Little East Street, Brighton.

It's a Brighton bar with Scandi spirit, with a brilliant exhibition space upstairs.

More to follow ...

Magpie Sea Song

Finally here
by the glittering sea,
we begin our lives again,
us three.

It's bitterly cold
and the wind bites me,
by the glittering, glittering,
glittering sea.

Home Time

Here are a few (ok, lots and lots of) photos of the third Mill House exhibition brought to you by Two Magpies, entitled "Home".  Thanks to all our lovely artists for firstly applying and then getting their work to us on time and ready to hang, we really appreciate your involvement in our project!

Caroline Hancox's beautiful photographs lead us in!

Leila Bibizadeh's Tower Bridge

Ahem.  Magpie Ali Lewry's photographs (Moi)

Fiona Purves' lovely little doors, all in a row.

Satu Vartiainen's stunning Northern Light series

Magpie Anna's gorgeous tree painting Twist