Kiosk Giveaway

Time to celebrate the opening of my own Kiosk on Etsy with a little giveaway. I'll be offering an A3 print, set of notecards and a handrawn one off picture made by me for you!

As my favourite word is of course KIOSK, I thought you could tell me what your FAVOURITE WORD is. So leave me a comment on my blog, facebook page, twitter or instagram feed. If you want to do this on all four platforms feel free- but choose different words- and you'll increase your chances of winning! And don't forget to visit the kiosk and let me know which of the prints from my Etsy store you would like to win.

On 5th July I'll choose a winner. It will be the best word, in my thoroughly partial judgement. I will also choose 3 runners up who will be given a discount code to use in the kiosk. Links are on the images below and on the right. Just leave your comment where you see this pic. Good luck!

The Kiosk is now OPEN

I'm very pleased to announce that my Etsy store is now open. So far I have a small range of greetings cards and art prints for sale, which I hope to add to shortly. Please hop on over via the link, or search Etsy for esthercoxskiosk. Here is a peek at what it looks like

Dreaming of Madrid

A while ago I was asked to participate in an illustration project for Mi Petit Madrid, to create a skyline of Madrid. It has been a few years since I visited so my memories were quite hazy...I remember a very good broad bean and black pudding dish, and a not so good tripe dish. Goya and Velazquez in the Prado wowed me, and of course Picasso's Guernica in the Reine Sofia. The bullfight I saw is still seared on my memory.....but the city, the architecture the skyline I couldn't easily recapture.
I had to look at some holiday snaps and start to rebuild it in my head. Even now I have no sense of the geography of the place, so my interpretation is deliberately a confusing jumble of a city, disorientating and captivating. I wanted to try and include the heat and the bustle of a city laden with history and still forming its identity in the aftermath of Franco. So the colours are bright like the Toreadors costume and I have included some of Madrid's new and controversial architecture. I wanted the image to be shifting and illusive, because to me that is what is so alluring about cities.

If you follow me on twitter or instagram you'll have seen a few snippets of this in progress. Now you can see it in its entirety here. There is also a little interview with me, which will make more sense if you read Spanish! The illustration will be exhibited in Madrid later this year.