Sleepy-Starling

~Hello! After a 2013 hiatus I've returned to promote my latest (and past) creations!~

In 2012 I started out with mainly clockpunk influences. Gradually my stuff became less 'clocky' and more 'my' kinda style. There were still elements left over from my early days (gears and watch parts), but also with echoes of Mori and neo-Victorian, and inspired by macabre medicine and sea-weathered artifacts. I was making some generous £££s from these items.

Then suddenly, I stopped - I got depressed and even art couldn't serve as a comfort. I retreated into my own head and wrote things instead. Then I landed a new job and fell in love with it, and met amazing new friends. In early 2014, I pushed myself to get back into making things again. And now I'm here.

Update: 2015 hiatus: Because I met the love of my life and gon dun a coupla road trips to the States to visit his sweet ass. Submissions of recent work will be posted....nnnnnnnow.

Two questions I get asked the most:

Q: Where do you get your findings and parts?
A: 95% machine parts have been given to me. I also apply patinas and work with clays and resins. I make almost all my charms from scratch.

Q: Do you do art trades?
A: No no no no no sorry no no.

I love animals, particularly strange ones like molluscs, and also love burlesque, silent comedies, old cartoons, dirty vintage bottles, scrap metal, steampunk, goth, astronomy, witchy mori-girl stuff, unexplained mysteries, hoaxes, UFO stuff, Lolita, waistcoats, 1920s, Baroque, and inventing odd new walks. I can do a good crab impression.

I have a tattoo on my wrist that I designed of a birdcage. I wear orthodontic braces (Update: they're off) and I'm socially awkward (NOT in a cute way either), often push doors that say 'Pull' and bump into things when I'm not wearing contact lenses.