My grandad making the most of his email :)

''Miss Frazer, I regret to say that your latest submission of class-work is not up to your usual high standard. I enclose a copy of what you sent in.
Your use of colour is very limited, and not exactly well applied. Your grandparents would appear to resemble frogs rather than normal human beings. I presume that the vehicle they have been travelling in is being pulled by two long-eared donkeys. Hiding the bodies of horses etc is a well-worn trick by artists who cannot draw animals, and we will not allow it in this establishment.
Great artists like Dada and piccasso could get away with minimalist graphics and colourwork, but you have not quite reached the level of their craftsmanship.
It is quite obvious that neither of your parents know the slightest thing about art, otherwise they would not have let this "picture" see the light of day, and you should be really ashamed of them.
If this standard of work is repeated, I have no alternative but to recommend you for an exhibition in the New Tate.

Agatha Higginbottom
Tutor.''

(AKA my Grandad haha :)



My Grandad is a legend, and an artistic one at that. Always making something new, whether its crafting a princess and the pea bed or painting one of his intricatly beautiful maps (of which my 'textile light' stitch was based on) his creativness has always been a fond memory of my childhood and his work will always be a part of our families constantly growing gallery we call home. All in all my grandad is my greatest artistic inspiration.



This is a picture he just did for Helen's birthday (my little cousin) Its an illustration about Tissle tassel, a little elf we were always told stories about, he lives in a plant pot in the woods just outside my grandparents old house, where lollipop trees appear at easter time and coca cola comes out of the taps of the wendyhouse he build for my auntie when she was little. The best.

http://swarbrickmaps.com/ ( my grandads website)