Featured Artist // Claudia Borfiga

There was no better artist for us to feature this month than our much loved Print Club tech and freelance illustrator and printmaker, Claudia Borfiga. 

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Claudia’s recent trip to India has clearly inspired the need to create new and inspiring work, which we don’t doubt you will be as captivated as us by!!

Here’s a little summery from Claudia about the trip (who is due to be re-visiting over the next couple of months) and a small collection of photos, that make us all ache with a desperation to travel and explore tropical climates.

The Facts 

I spent the first month of 2015 in India, with my friend Lizzie Lock who is an amazing milliner.

Top Ten Highlights were:

1 – Putting my forehead on a cows hoofs for a blessing from it.

2 – Block printing! It’s possibly as good as screen printing, an ancient craft that couldn’t be more hands on.

3 – Going to Raj Mandir cinema – its an art deco building that looks like a ridiculous trifle and the audience were so actively involved,

whooping for the heroes especially when the tops came off.

4 – Hawa Mahal/Palace of the Winds, Wes Anderson must have seen it before styling the Grand Budapest Hotel.

5 – Kite Festival in Ahmedabad, thousands of kites cutting each others strings followed by lanterns at sundown, phenomenal!

6 – Sleeping under the stars in the desert.

7 – Learning how to tie turbans, they’re 1m x 9m.

8 – Shopping in the bazaars, amazing goodies and street food.

9 – Camels, hairy pigs, elephants, naughty monkeys, street dogs and all the cows, especially a very short angry cow.

10 – Endless wedding ceremonies in our block print village

I’ve been working on lots of prints since the trip and hope to make them using natural pigments I bought in India.

To see more photos of India and work in progress people can check out my Instagram. 

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