Artist inspiration and artist influences. No biographies, dates or scholarly research here -  this is a personal response to yarn bombing by Australian artist Fiona Morgan.

Yarn bombing. Where statues get some dressing up, trees are snuggled into wool and street furniture is fair game for being transposed into the realm of bright and cheerful. It's cosy, it's granny-like and subversive all at once.

The spirit of this new form of graffiti - it's colourful, it's non-destructive, it's cheeky and the intent is to light up your face with a smile - is what I appreciate. Puffed up macho tagging gives me the shits. And although yarn bombing is, strictly speaking, grafitti, the result is that it humanises a city space rather than making it even more alienating than it already is.

The Creative Cauldron series of posts explores and showcases the visual styles, techniques, attitudes, ideas, artists and paintings that have had the most impact on me. 

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