AR5710 - Lauren Child

Lauren Child

http://www.milkmonitor.com/
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/04/lauren-child-clarice-children-books

I haven’t even looked at all her work yet but her website
is just utterly adorable and I love the style of it all too… tweet tweet!

After a fitful, frustrating university career (a "disastrous" year studying art at Manchester; a disappointing mixed media course at City and Guilds) she spent her 20s "floundering dreadfully", living hand-to-mouth in London "doing the odd mural, painting china and selling it. I felt," she says, "very lost."

That was in 1995. Four years later Clarice Bean, That's Me – the first of Child's tales of malapropic Clarice and her rumpled, bohemian family – was published.

her first creative act was to change her name from Helen to Lauren when she was a child.

her father encouraged her interest in art and her mother, meanwhile, made sure there were plenty of books about the house, and inadvertently stoked a fascination with Americana still visible in her artwork today. "I was obsessed!" Child grins. "And crazy as it sounds, it was all down to Alistair Cooke.

 

I enjoy the child like nature of Lauren Childs illustrations. I am especially drawn to the image in which text is used to make what I presume is a tree. Theres a lot going on in the image I think, birds tweeting, something climbing up the tree and leaves in the branches, however despite the business, I think that because not a lot of patterns are used, it is mostly blocky colours with a slight texture, not a pattern.