Drawing And Painting with Florence Shaw of Dry Cleaning
Last year, in an article that listed 7 bands you ought to know by now, we described Dry Cleaning’s musical style as ‘Though the lyricism is spoken, Dry Cleaning, thankfully, is not melodrama.
The vocals live somewhere in the middle of speaking, singing, confessing, and demanding, with very fucking good instrumentation spilling all over it.’ I’d agree with that. They are talented, and Flo is an excellent front-woman, subdued but vehement in her vocals. Florence Shaw, the artist, writer, singer, and creative emoji utilizer also draws, paints, doodles, illustrates, and sketches. Quite a bit, actually, and quite good. Some simple, some complex, all charming. We bugged her to share 10 of her favorite scribbles, paintings, and art pieces and give us a little info about why she favors them.
2022 - This is an idea for a tattoo, drawn in pencil. The sexy eyes were not intended to be on the lamb’s butt, but I didn’t leave enough space for the body of the lamb. I think it’s a nice combination!
2015 - Oil pastel drawing. I was drawing a lot from TV so I started using cards from a rolodex to draw on because they were the right sort of aspect ratio to suggest the shape of a wide screen. I don’t remember who this man is.
Listen to Dry Cleaning, here. See more of Florence’s work, here.