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By Stephen Waterhouse – Illustrator and Author.
Welcome to my first solo exhibition which shows some of my favourite artwork from the last 15 years.
When I was a boy I loved to draw and paint fun characters and landscapes and I still do now at 36 years old. At 6 years old I was inspired by Roald Dahl’s books and when I was 12 years old I saw Monet’s drawings, Van Gogh’s paintings and the Simpsons for the first time. That seems like an odd mix but they really inspired me to draw and paint even more. So much so, I painted the whole Simpsons family onto my younger sisters bedroom wall. Luckily she thought they were great!
After leaving school I went to Huddersfield College to do an Art and Design Foundation course for one year. From there I went on to Loughborough University to study Illustration for three years to learn to draw and paint properly, in my own way. Since graduating in 1998 I‘ve been lucky enough to be commissioned to create children’s books, posters, jigsaws and greetings cards.I also visit schools to talk about my work and to do character invention workshops, as well as teaching part-time at Loughborough University.
My latest work is for a book called ‘My Pop-Up World Atlas’. It’s funny because as I failed Geography at ‘A’ Level and this gave me a chance to learn about every continent and country in a very fun and colourful way!
The 35 pieces of artwork here show part of my journey over the last 15 years from 1996 as a student to my latest artwork for a book which came out this summer. This exhibition also shows my transition from painting with acrylics to working digitally on a computer. ‘London at Christmas Time’ (2002) was my very first digital Christmas card and after some experimentation my artwork has mostly all been painted digitally since then. I do however create all my rough drawings the old fashioned way, with a pencil! Some of which I have included here to show my process of development.
Thank you for coming to take a look around, I hope you enjoy the show!
Best Wishes
Stephen
stephen@stephenwaterhouse.com
All Rights Reserved. Copyright Stephen Waterhouse
Womensphere Fall Summit on Creating the Future
Agenda for November 7, 2016
1:00-1:30 PM
Registration, Connecting with Discussion Co-Hosts, and Roundtable Introductions
1:30-2:10 PM
Welcome, Introductions, Context-setting & Launch
• The Leadership Gender Gap: Overview of Global, US, Cross-Industry Contexts
• Women in Leadership & Innovation: Challenges, Opportunities
• Technology-powered Leadership
• NowIsTheTime.com: Celebrating Women’s Firsts
• New Models for Leadership in the World
• Launching NewChampions5050 + Womensphere Incubator Network global initiatives
Anna Ewing – Board Member, New York Hall of Science; Angel Investor; Past CIO & EVP, Global Technology Solutions, NASDAQ OMX
Dr. Valerie Barr – President, ACM-Women (Association for Computing Machinery)
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS
Analisa Leonor Balares – CEO & Chief Innovation Officer, Womensphere
Drue Kataoka – Global Artist & Creator, Now is The Time
2:10 – 3:00 PM
Womensphere Global Leadership Award 2016 & Keynote
Carla Harris, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley; President, National Women’s Business Council
Advancing Women in Leadership in Business & Insights on the Journey to Executive Leadership
Plenary Discussion Panel
Angela Sun – Head of Corporate Development & Strategy, Bloomberg; Young Global Leader
Carla Harris – Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley
Lili Gil Valetta – CEO, XL Alliance; Young Global Leader
Mary Graham Davis – Managing Partner, Davis Bateson Group; Former Chair, Board of Trustees, Mount Holyoke College
3:00 – 3:10PM Networking Break
3:10 – 4:00 PM
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Building the Pipeline of Talent & Accelerating Leadership for Women
• Insights on Advancing Women in Business & Finance
• Insights on Advancing Women in Science & Technology
• Insights on Advancing Women in Academia & Academic Leadership
• Empowering Millennials to Change the World
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation for Global Initiatives 2017
Amy Dorn Kopelan –President & Founder, Bedlam Productions; Executive Producer, Corporate State CEO Summit
Laura Cantileno – Executive, Cisco; Co-Author, Internet of Women
Dr. Gilda Barabino – Dean, Grove School of Engineering, City College New York
Aria Finger – CEO, DoSomething.org; Young Global Leader
4:00 – 4:50
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Accelerating Impact & Advancing Women's Leadership in the World
• Principles in Accelerating Impact
• Women's Leadership in the World: Driving the Sustainability & Inclusion Agenda
• Women's Innovation in the World: Driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Leveraging Technology to Amplify & Accelerate Impact
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation: Strategies for Accelerating Women’s Impact & Advancing Women’s
Leadership (Across Fields/Industries)
Dr. Nada Anid – Dean, School of Engineering, New York Institute of Technology
Dr. Sana Odeh – Chair & Founder, Arab Women in Computing
Dina Shoman – CEO & Founder, InHerQuests financial education company; Young Global Leader
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS; Young Global Leader
4:50 – 5:40
Synthesis & Community Solutions from Roundtable Discussions & Ideation Sessions
• Synthesis of Insights & Learnings – Community Presentations & Reflections
• Introducing: Project American Dreams
• Introducing: The Internet of Women - book and leaders
• Looking Ahead to 2017: Global Initiatives, Global Movement, Next Steps
5:40 – 6:30
Closing Networking Reception
• Community Connections between Speakers, Discussion Co-Hosts, Participants
• Connect with the Book Authors - The Internet of Women
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future
Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016
Cary Hall @ The DiMenna Center, New York City
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“The poverty of modern architecture stems from the atrophy of sensuality. Everything is dominated by reason in order to create amazement without proper research. We must mistrust pictorial elements if they are not assimilated by instinct. It is not a matter of simply constructing beautiful ensembles of lines, but above all, dwellings for great people.”
- Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray was an influential Irish architect and designer whose iconic modernist work is among the most valuable and sought after in the world today.
Although Gray was not a trained architect, her contribution to design and architecture is incredibly significant. Her E1027 house, nestled within a rocky coastline in the south of France, was famously coveted by her contemporary Le Corbusier, while her ‘dragon’ armchair - made between 1917 and 1919 - sold at a Paris auction for almost 22 million euros in 2009, setting a record for 20th century decorative art.
Gray was born in 1878, near Enniscorthy, Wexford. Her father was a painter who encouraged her artistic interests and in 1898, she enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, to study painting.
In 1900 she made her first visit to Paris – the city in which she was to spend much of her life. Moving there shortly after the trip, Gray continued her studies at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi for around five years before returning to London and the Slade school in 1905.
It was while back in the English capital that Gray chanced upon a Soho lacquer repair shop where she asked to be trained in the art of lacquer work. In 1906 she returned to Paris and began working with a contact of the Soho shop owner, a Japanese artist called Seizo Sugawara, whom she worked with for four years, despite developing lacquer disease on her hands.
It was this training however, that paved the way for her future career. In 1913, at the age of 35, Gray first exhibited her lacquer work and recently a black lacquered screen, made by the designer between 1923 and 1925, sold for 1.3 million euro at auction.
Her first major foray into furniture and interior design came at the end of the first World War, when Gray was tasked with decorating the apartment of a successful female milliner in the rue de Lota. It was during this period that she designed her famous ‘Bibendum’ chair, as well as carpets with modern geometric patterns and lamps, including the ‘tube’ style lamp for which she is also known.
Several art critics at the time hailed the work as innovative and in light of this positive response, Gray opened what was to prove a hugely successful shop in Paris - Jean Desert - to exhibit and sell her work and that of her artist friends.
In 1924, with her then partner, the Romanian architectural critic Jean Badovici, Gray’s interests turned to house design. That year she began work on ‘E-1027’ (the name of the building being a code for the couple’s initials - E for Eileen, 10 for J, the tenth letter of the alphabet, 2 for B and 7 for G).
The sharp clean lines, flat roof and ribbon windows that featured throughout the Cote d’Azur house helped make it an icon of modernist architecture. As well as collaborating with Badovici on the structural elements of the house, Gray also designed the interior and furniture – creating another design classic in the circular glass and steel E-1027 table.
Her friend and professional contemporary, Le Corbusier was said to be greatly impressed by the house and built his own summer home nearby. However, in what is believed by some critics to have been an act of jealous vandalism, he covered large areas of the white painted walls with somewhat gaudy and explicit murals, much to Gray’s distaste (they were apparently created at Badovici's behest in her absence.) It is perhaps ironic that Le Corbusier died in 1965, while swimming in the sea directly in front of E-1027, a building thought to have stirred such professional envy in him.
The house itself has been tarred by misfortune over the years – it was looted in the evacuation of the French coast during World War II, and in 1996 the then owner was murdered in the building. For years E-1027 fell into a bad state of disrepair, but it is currently being restored as part of plans by the French government, who designated it a French National Cultural Monument. The national agency, Conservatoire du Littoral, bought the villa in 1999 to secure it provisionally and it is hoped the house will be ready and open to the public again by 2015.
After the war, Gray returned to Paris and led a reclusive life, almost forgotten by the design industry. Then, in 1968, she agreed to the further production of her Bibendum chair, E-1027 table and other works with renowned London based retailer Zeev Aram – leading to the pieces becoming the modern classics they are today.
In 1973, she was recognised by her home country in the Bank of Ireland exhibition: Eileen Gray, Pioneer of Design. The event was organised by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) which later presented her with a honourary fellowship.
Eileen Gray died in her Paris apartment in 1976. In the following four decades her legacy lives on - her style still heavily influences modern design and the value and collectability of her work continues to grow.
History E1027, designed BY ARCHITECT EILEEN GRAY
1924: Villa is designed by Eileen Gray (with Jean Badovici)
1927: Building is completed
1932: Eileen Gray leaves the house
1937-39: Le Corbusier marks the walls with murals; Gray is displeased at his intervention
1951: Le Corbusier builds Le Cabanon next door
1960: A patron of Le Corbusier, Madame Marie-Louise Schelbert, buys E1027 at his behest
1956: Jean Badovici dies
1965: Le Corbusier has a heart attack and dies whilst swimming in the sea below
1976: Eileen Gray dies
1982: Madame Schelbert dies and a Swiss doctor (Dr. Kaegi) buys E1027
1996: Dr Kaegi is murdered in the villa by his gardeners
1999: Municipality of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and the French Government buy E1027
2008: Restoration begins on now dilapidated villa
2013: The restoration had cost €600,000
2015: It is hoped that the house will be open to the public
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Low pressure air condensing to form clouds on an F-16 flown by the Dutch Demo Team at Waddington Airshow
Hello everyone! For this Thanksgiving tutorial (if you’re in the USA), I present you with the coffee based drink menu for The Roasterie, a cozy coffee shop located in Piccadilly Circus purveying bold flavors and carefully selected pastries to its patrons.
We’ll use some of the twenty font families included in the font geek’s go-to bundle to accomplish that. We’ll explore basic visual identity building, and how to use the many symbol/dingbats typefaces included in the collection to our advantage for layout building, and more!
So, pour yourself a warm cup of Arabica, and let’s do this.
Hello Design Cutters! It’s Simon here for tutorial number 2 of Design Cuts’ 2nd birthday multi-deal fest. This time, we’ll create a cute, watercolor-themed birthday card, dedicated to our favorite team of design geeks!
We’ll use techniques including texture layering, masking, layer styles, and more! Quick word of caution: we’ll be layering a lot of elements, so this tutorial may take a bit longer than usual. But it will be just as much fun!
Note that there's also an extensive companion freebie pack to download and follow along with.
I started to send this as a tag game, but decided to just post as a picture.
This is a hybrid, using the Made to Move Skateboarder head, a tan Curvy Fashionista body and a new Fashion.
Milica Zec, Director, Film and Mixed Reality, New Reality Co., USA; Cultural Leader speaking during the Session: “Creating Visions of Another World“ at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24, 2018. Congress Centre – Aspen 2.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Toshiyuki Inoko, Founder, teamLab, Japan; Cultural Leader speaking during the Session: “Creating Visions of Another World“ at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24, 2018. Congress Centre – Aspen 2.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Milica Zec, Director, Film and Mixed Reality, New Reality Co., USA; Cultural Leader speaking during the Session: “Creating Visions of Another World“ at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24, 2018. Congress Centre – Aspen 2.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
★ Created by Nancy A. Erisman & Students: Newhall, CA
Title: "Growing Our Future: Creating a Thriving & Caring Community"
Dream Theme: Peace & Children as our Future
The photos show the process of the children coloring the muslin background, having their hands traced and the back of the quilt panel with the label (my hand traced!)
Students:
Alex
Alexander
Caroline
Chace
Damian
Eleana
Laney
Makeda
Maya
Mia
Santiago
What is your artwork about?
"The first ideas I had centered on the theme of 'peace, but as I explored the website and photos posted on the Flicker page, I saw that many others had the same idea! I considered other themes but the one that kept returning to my mind was that of 'community'.
After all, if we all felt a sense of community, there would surely be peace!
In deciding on my implementation techniques, I kept returning to my desire to include the young children I care for each day because classroom community is something I always work very hard on creating.
If we raise our children to value living and working in a close-knit community, maybe we can embrace hope for a more peaceful future."
Techniques & Materials Used:
All materials were things I had in my studio stash. I intentionally did not purchase anything new for this project.
Fabrics used: muslin & an assortment of cotton quilting fabrics, double-sided Pellon Wonder Under, thread, Warm & Natural batting, buttons and ribbon -preprinted with the words: inspire, hope, believe, create, imagine and dream.
How did you hear about us? Wow I no longer remember! I stumbled on to the Dream Rocket site online a long time ago!
Did you enjoy this project?
"Yes, I did! It took me a long while to settle on an idea. Once l had the seed of my idea going, although I still procrastinated some, I finally relaxed and let the creative juices flow. I especially liked finding a way to let the very young (under two years old) children in my classroom be a part of both the process and the main design element (their traced hands as the leaves on the tree)."
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Creating the Future: Business, Markets, and Sustainability
L-R:
Margaret Molloy — Global CMO, Siegel + Gale
Laura Lee — Head of East Coast Content Partnerships, YouTube/Google
Dr. Alissa Park — Associate Director, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy; Professor in Applied Climate Science, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Columbia University
Gib Bulloch — CEO & Founder, Accenture Development Partnerships
5th Annual Womensphere Emerging Leaders Global Summit 2014
THE NEXT GENERATION OF WOMEN LEADERS & INNOVATORS CREATING THE FUTURE
Main Summit Day - January 15,2014 @ Columbia University
Immersion & Exploration Days - January 14 and January 16 @ Multiple Venues in New York City
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We are creating an Art Float for Social Change at Tam Makers, to inspire more people to participate in democracy.
Our parade float features Mother Earth and a circle of hands, pulled by the colorful dragon Quetzy. Young activists will sing and speak about social change -- and artists will share their ideas on our spinning carousel. They want you all to vote, speak up and create a better world!
This community art project was created by over a hundred volunteers at Tam Makers, led by Fabrice Florin and Geo Monley, with the generous support of Good Earth, Mill Valley Community Action Network and Tamalpais High School.
The Art Float for Social Change will reach out to youth and people of color through art, music and technology. We will present this art show on Earth Day, Memorial Day and Fourth of July parades in Marin -- and throughout California this fall, to encourage people to vote in the next elections.
View more photos of the Art Float:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/sets/72157689242055230/
Learn more about the Art Float: