Hello
and welcome to Jodie Anna!
My
name is Jodie and I am a designer maker from West Yorkshire, I like to sit and create from my home studio trying to make my day dreams and ideas come to life.
My illustrations are hand drawn and then placed in photo shop where I add lovely vintage patterns to each illustration, creating a crisp finished image. I then realised I wanted to-do something with these images so I started to make them into jewellery, little pieces of wearable memories, which I hope will bring a smile to its wearer.
As well as drawing and making I love photography, going to places that make me smile! collecting and hoarding vintage tins, cameras, crockery, vases, ceramic 1950's animals!, fabric....... the list is endless! I also love a good afternoon tea and been around my family and friends.
I studied Interactive Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University where I was hugely influenced by the idea of how an object or any image can trigger memories and feelings of nostalgia, after leaving university this idea still fascinated me. I had an amazing childhood filled with summer holidays by the sea! Tea and cake on Sunday afternoons with my grandparents and long summer nights spent in the woods near my childhood home, building dens and creating imaginary worlds. I wanted to use all these memories to create a range
of illustrations that reminded me of some of my favourite things!
My illustrations are hand drawn and then placed in photo shop where I add lovely vintage patterns to each illustration, creating a crisp finished image. I then realised I wanted to-do something with these images so I started to make them into jewellery, little pieces of wearable memories, which I hope will bring a smile to its wearer.
As well as drawing and making I love photography, going to places that make me smile! collecting and hoarding vintage tins, cameras, crockery, vases, ceramic 1950's animals!, fabric....... the list is endless! I also love a good afternoon tea and been around my family and friends.
I hope
you enjoy my Blog and hope it gives you a little insight to all my thoughts, goings on
and my dreams!
If you
have any questions or just fancy a chat then please just get in touch!
Hi Jodie, what a lovely website and a joy that you studied in my home town where i studied Dress Manufacture Art and Design at Hollings College back in the mid 60's and the skills have just grown from there. I found you from your pinterest link on Make do and Mend. I live in Armidale NSW Austria and still do the occasional dressmaking for others and teach on the rare occasion people still want to learn where I am. Sadly they are all too slack to put the effort in and would rather buy crappy throw away stuff and no natural fibres 'cos it needs ironing" I love our little teapot cup and saucer necklace too. It makes me feel so good to know that sewing is certainly on the rise in both UK and the USA and I keep in touch with several on FB pages adding my knowledge and expereince of almost 67 years now since I started on my mums old Jones treadle when i was 8 and then her industrial machine when she used to do piece work form home while we were children for a compnay in the Manchester city centre - no longer there of course. Well I hope this chat helps brighten your day little and you can see mypinterest page named sewitwell - a teaching business I ran until october last year.
ReplyDeleteAll the best patricia Nield