STYLIST / ARTIST /...

I came across the work of Stylist/Artist Gracie Wales Bonner recently. Highly recommended if, like me, you have a soft spot for collage/cords/colour.

BEDROOM WALLS - PETER ARMSTRONG

Unframed images stuck on walls makes me think of teenage girls. My sister covered one huge wall in adverts from Vogue and posters of Eminem and during my teens I slept-over in endless rooms plastered with photos of weekends spent drinking smirnoff ice with camel blues shoved expertly down push-up bras.

Artist Peter Armstrong's Brixton house is a much more savoury version of this impulse to decorate. A work in progress, his walls clearly benefit from a distinct sense of colour and a coherent aesthetic.

In my current room I have managed to restrict my blue-tacking to this small patch by the mirror, let's see how long it lasts.

WELSH REFRESH

Ah hears the rattlin ay boatils in thir crates so ah goes tae the windae n pills back the curtain. It's Terry's juice lorry n ah kin hear um giein it the patter. Jist when ah think aboot shoutin oot the windae or gaun doon fir a blether, ah see thit eh's talkin tae Maggie Orr n this other lassie. That's just brutal; so ah dinnae think ah'll bother. No that ah've nowt against Maggie, she's awright, but ah hud this shutin match wi her auld man the other week.

The tosser eywis comes back pished wi ehs wife fae the boozer, n they huv a big fight in the street. It keeps muh Ma awake. Ma auld man'll no dae nowt, so ah goes tae the door n hus a word.

ARTIST TEGEN WILLIAMS

I would quite love this first one on the wall of my kitchen when I have my own sweet pad. 

Or lots of variations on the second made to look like a clapboard dado. 

By upcoming artist Tegen Williams, check out her blog YOUNG PAINT .