Showing posts with label georgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label georgia. Show all posts

Sunday, July 28, 2013

georgia

A few sketches from our recent trip to Georgia. It was my second trip to Georgia and I must say that Georgia is still my absolutely favourite country.

Konrad reading Milan Kundera, waiting for a flight in Istanbul.

2013-06-27 ataturk airport-s
Some sketches from Tbilisi.
2013-06-28 tbilisi-s
2013-06-29 tbilisi museum-s
Random stuff really.
2013-06-29 tbilisi-park-s
Travelling on a marshrutka (minibus). It takes a while to get used to crazy suicidal driving but it is an experience not to be missed while in Georgia. This one was from Tbilisi to Signagi.
2013-06-30 tbilisi-signagi-s
Signagi is a pretty town set on a hill with some spectacular views to the Caucasus mountains.
2013-06-30 signagi-s
2013-06-30 signagi-st george-s
At Bodbe convent near Signagi.
2013-07-01 bodbe convent 01-s
St Nino's Holy Spring.
2013-07-01 bodbe convent 02-s 
More Signagi.
2013-07-02 signagi2-s
2013-07-02 signagi-s
Ok this is rather random. I have no idea where this bird comes from.
2013-07-03 signagi-s
On the marshrutka to Tsnori. Have I mentioned that each marshrutka we took had a suggestive crack in the windscreen?
2013-07-03 signagi-tsnori-s
Waiting for a marshrutka to Telavi.
2013-07-03 tsnori-s
Chilling out on a hammock in Telavi.
2013-07-03 telavi-s
On the market in Telavi.
2013-07-04 telavi bazar-s
 Tusheti is a remote region in the Caucasus (close to the border with Dagestan and Chechenya). Getting there was quite an experience (a 4 hours drive through a mountaing pass, mostly looking down the cliff and thinking about the trajectory of a falling 4WD while the drivier is happily listening to The Best of Boney M...). 
2013-07-04 omalo-s
Zemo Omalo with amazing medival architecture. I was also trying to learn the Georgian alphabet.
2013-07-04 zemo omalo-s
We went horseriding!
2013-07-05 horseriding in tusheti-s
More sketches from Keselo Hotel in Omalo, a lovely guesthouse we were staying in.
2013-07-07 kselo garden-s

2013-07-07 kselo mountains-s

Back to Telavi.
2013-07-08 telavi-s
On a marshrutka to Borjomi. This one was actually really fun. There was a priest with us, he started a prayer at the beginning of the journey and the whole marshrutka was praying. It actually made me feel better about the whole journey as the driver was particularly crazy. There should be a priest on every minibus in Georgia. Just in case.
2013-07-10 borjomi-s
We spent last few days of our Georgian holidays in resort town Borjomi. Again, I am not sure what's with this bird.
2013-07-11 borjomi-spa-s
 Drinking salty mineral waters, swimming, chilling out, doing normal holiday stuff.
2013-07-11 borjomi-pool-s

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Last week

We had a successful opening of our In Residence exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art. It was lovely to see everyone and catch with people I've not seen for a while. Thank you all for coming! It was a beautiful evening. The exhibition is open until Friday 28th June. Come and see if you are in Edinburgh. We are on 1st floor in the Evolution House on West Port, 10am-5pm.

Here are some pictures with my new drawings and prints:



 And fellow Illustrators in Residence, drawings and prints by Cat O'Neil...
Lasercut illustrations by Astrid Jaekel...
 and linocuts by James Albon:



 From other news,  Zoe from Playing by the Book hosted an online aution with one of my prints. The auction was the last in a series of events we organised to fundraise for our volunteering trip to Ghana.
Big thanks to everyone who took part in the auction and to Zoe for organising it. If you are interested in children's literature, check out her blog as it is pretty amazing.

We are off to Georgia in a few days, a trip I really look forward to. It has been an exhausting few weeks (actually it has been an exhausting 10 months...) and I really feel like I need a break. Also Georgia is in my top 3 favourite places I've visited and I am happy I am returning there this year.