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Grace Helmer

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🎨 Illustrator in Brighton, UK 🌝
🖼️ Available for commissions
✍️ Instructor in Illustration @labasad_design

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Van Gogh's Dog
Written by Georgia Larson
Illustrated by Grace Helmer @grrrrace1
Published by Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse

We love love love this book in our house! So much so that we've borrowed it from the library 4 times and I've just bought our own copy too because it is one we just keep coming back to!

We all love it for different reasons - the 4-year-old laughs himself silly at the dog's antics and the 6-year-old loves the colours and the story bringing to life an artist she's studied in school. For me, it's a selection of things: I've always thought that art and the history of art is an essential part of education and, for me, is something that makes life worth living. I love museums and galleries and have grown up steeped in beauty, often spending hours soaking in a piece of art. (This was, of course, in my life pre-having-kids, but I want to instil some of that appreciation in them too🤣)
Books like these, which allow the art to spill over the frame and bring it to life in an accessible, engaging way are absolutely worth their weight in gold! Creative, fun and stunning to look at - what more could you ask for?
#bookreview #picturebook

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<<Ο Βαν Γκογκ και ο σκύλος του>>
Ο ζωγράφος Βίνσεντ Βαν Γκογκ, είναι πολύ στεναχωρημένος, καθισμένος μπροστά στο λευκό καμβά του, αισθάνεται ότι εχει στερέψει από ιδέες και δεν έχει πια όρεξη για ζωγραφική.

Ξαφνικά, ένας σκανταλιάρης σκύλος, ο Φωτεινούλης, ορμάει στο δωμάτιο του ζωγράφου, αρπάζει το πινέλο του και ξεκινάει το τρέξιμο! Αμέσως ξαφνιασμένος ο Βίνσεντ Βαν Γκογκ αρχίζει να τον κυνηγάει. Οι δυο τους τρέχουν μέσα σε πανέμορφα ηλιοτρόπια, μέσα σε καταπράσινα τοπία και κάτω από τον γεμάτο λαμπερά αστέρια, νυχτερινό ουρανό.

Με τις σκανταλιές του Φωτεινούλη, ο Βίνσεντ Βαν Γκογκ θα ξεχάσει τη στεναχώρια του. Έτσι χαρούμενος και γεμάτος έμπνευση ξανά, ανυπομονεί να επιστρέψει στο εργαστήριό του για να αρχίσει πάλι τις δημιουργίες!

Μια υπέροχη και διασκεδαστική ιστορία που φέρνει τα παιδιά σε επαφή με έναν από τους σπουδαίοτερους ζωγράφους του κόσμου, τον Βίνσεντ Βαν Γκογκ. Τα παιδιά θα ανακαλύψουν διάσημους πίνακες του καλλιτέχνη όπως η Έναστρη Νύχτα, τα Ηλιοτρόπια κ.ά. με τον πιο συναρπαστικό τρόπο.

Κείμενο: Georgia Larson
Εικονογράφηση: Grace Helmer
Μετάφραση: Ζήσιμος Τριφίδης
Εκδόσεις: ΦΟΥΡΦΟΥΡΙ
Ηλικία: 6-9

🤎💜🩷🙏🙏 @fourfouri_pbl

#fourfouri #booksuggestion #booksuggestions #παραμύθια #books booksforkids diavazo παιδικόβιβλίο

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Exhibitor 59 @grrrrace1

"Hi I'm Grace and I make colourful oil-painted illustrations for comics, prints, artworks, fabrics, and more"

BIF 2026
Oct 31 - Nov 01
Tickets on sale now via our bio!

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Belated birthday wishes to my lovely and talented daughter @grrrrace1 who this year on my own birthday gave me the most incredible present - a jigsaw of my life. It’s packed with little details that won’t mean much to people other than friends and family, but to me it means everything. Pulls off the difficult trick of making a very random life look like it means something. Can’t thank her enough. ❤️❤️❤️🎈🎈🎈🎈🎉🎉🎉🔥😊🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

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A few more incredible new books from this month! 📖

August brought us so many fantastic fresh picks! We have been loving the newest Penelope Rex tale, the unique & beautiful illustrations in I Am a Leaf and Phenomenon, and a variety of exciting new novels.

Visit us at the bookshop to learn more! 💙

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Tuesday is one of our favorite days because it means new books!

Manager Sarah is excited about Mr. Crump the Heartless Grump by @pog.auteur and bookseller Tracy is excited about The Power of Our by Zora Neale Hurston and adapted by @ibramxk

Stop in and see what's new!

#kidslit #newreleasetuesday #books #louisvilleky

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Who’s excited? 🌝

Learn all about the Solar Eclipse (and more!) inside Nature in a Nutshell, written by @carlmwilkinson and illustrated by @grrrrace1

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From last week 🧡 My piece for “Passages”, as big as my desk! Second and third slides for scale.

‘Guasare’
Soft pastels and colour pencils on paper
59.4 x 110cm

Inspired loosely on Las Ánimas de Guasare, a popular legend from Venezuela honouring the victims of a devastating drought in 1912. May those who wonder and get lost always gain safe passage, always find the light.

Organising and exhibiting in Passages was one of the most wonderful things I had the fortune of doing this year. I’ll never tire of thanking everyone for coming to visit ✨ Thank you thank you!

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Holy moly Passages was so beautiful and I’m so sad its over. Thank you so much to @mariannamadriz for organising and asking me to contribute to this lovely lovely show at @the_gallery_at_the_playroom_ . I had so much fun at the private view, the set up, manning the gallery, and meeting all the incredibly talented artists. Thank you to everyone that came along to see it, I love you all! When the world is so bleak is there anything better than art with pals old and new?
Sorry if I missed/didn't tag anyone!

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✨✨ STILL buzzing ✨✨

Thank you SO much to everyone who came to celebrate Passages with us last night! For all your kind words, encouragement and feedback! Nights like these show how important it is to have spaces where visual narratives and paintings can coexist and be appreciated together. Your support makes this endeavour all worth it 💛

These are just a few glimpses of what I managed to capture during our private view, so we never forget. Thank you thank you thank you.

Private view may be over, but you can still visit 'Passages' at @the_gallery_at_the_playroom_ until this Sunday! Open every day 11am-6pm.

Eternal gratitude always and forever to all exhibiting angels:
@waiwaipang
@peony__
@maj_lisa
@franky.surname
@tim____b
@elstayles
@plaidemily
@alan_ashworth_munoz
@ellenmakes
@jamesdwilsonart
@grrrrace1
@charlotte.ager

and to @the_toy_project for providing the best community gallery in all of London!

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🚸 Passages is nearly here!! Join us this 21 - 26 July to celebrate an amazing group of artists and Illustrators, all under one roof at @the_gallery_at_the_playroom_

Private view will be on Wednesday 22 July 6-9pm and all are welcome! Drinks will be available, BYOB also encouraged.

I can't wait for you to see all the beautiful works that will be on display for it 🤍 Massively honoured to do this with @charlotte.ager @elstayles @maj_lisa @alan_ashworth_munoz @franky.surname @peony__ @jamesdwilsonart @waiwaipang @ellenmakes @tim____b @plaidemily @grrrrace1!

Opening times: Tuesday 21 - Sunday 26 July 11am-6pm

The Gallery at the Playroom
99 Junction Rd, London, N19 5DX

With thanks to @the_toy_project

and thanks again @peony__ for letting me do all the design edits on top of your beautiful artwork

#londonexhibition #n19 #illustration #paintings #comics

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As our July meeting quickly approaches, we have many great titles nominated in the 0-5 category this month! They are:
• Chopsticks Are by Chloe Ito Ward and illustrated by Lynn Scurfield
• Lulu Didn’t Want a Dog by Laurel Molk
• 102 by Matthew Cordell
• The Gallaudet Eleven: The Story of NASA’s Deaf Bioaustronauts by Kerry O’Malley Cerra and illustrated by Keistina Gehrmann
• I Used To Be A Dinosaur by Casey Lyall and illustrated by Laurie Keller
• We The People Is All The People by Howard W. Reeves and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Van Gogh’s Dog by Georgia Larson and illustrated by Grace Helmer
• Nani and the Lion by Alicia D. Williams and illustrated by Anna Cunha
• Street Puppy, Masjid Cat by Moniza Hossain and illustrated by Wastana Haikal

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@chroniclekidsbooks @randomhousestudio @littlebrownyoungreaders @hachettechildrens @harperkids @abramskids @littlebeebooks @simonkids
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#kidlit #capitolchoices #dmvreads #dcreads #childrensliterature

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