Moonwalkmazza

I'm a mixed media artist working from home, married with one daughter (15) and we have a dog and 5 chickens.

I love making art, cooking especially baking, cooking for the freezer and slow cookery, playing piano, books & reading, all things vintage, recycling, frugality, refashioning, writing proper letters, walking, dancing, singing, outsider art, architecture. I lurve Johnny Depp, Colin Firth and Hugh Laurie.

Fave colours are greens, antique gold, bronzes, coppers, metallics, browns, naturals and brights as opposed to pastels . I love quirky, kitsch, 30s/40s/50s, unusual, unique, stripes, checks, batik, grungey, you get the picture! Don't do cutesy but otherwise I'm pretty much open to anything else!

I collect enamel especially mugs.

Things I love to swap: vintage/retro fabric, zines, aprons, flavoured lip balms, lip glosses, blank journals/notebooks, stationery, unusual fibres and beads, found objects, handmade anything (as opposed to mass produced!), food ;oD, recycled/green stuff, piano music, rubber stamps (not cute!), old letters, papers and photographs, quirky stuff...this list will grow no doubt! LOL My daughter is absolutely mad keen on David Bowie so anything to do with him would be fabulous too! ;o)

Just a few favourites....Goldfrapp, Mika, Scissor Sisters, Basement Jaxx, musicals, jazz, Bette Midler, big band/40s, Amy Winehouse, Fat Boy Slim, Kaiser Chiefs, Imogen Heap, Kelly Clarkson, Madness, Shostakovich, Strauss, Chopin, swing, 40s, alternative anything, early music, good beats, cultural, I'll give anything a try ...I love discovering new music/artists!

Lilian Jackson Braun's Cat Who...series, biographies, M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin series, Simon Brett, L M Montgomery,

The Railway Children, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dirty Dancing, Amelie,

Assemblage, metalwork, jewellery making, zine making, altered books and other altered art, art journals, ATCs, collage, mail art, making envelopes, drawing, refashioning.

Just a few of my fave artists...Klimt, Banksy, Michael de Meng, Keith Lo Bue, Antony Gormley, Simon Drew, Michelle Ward, Nina Bagley,