Anna Crichton

Updates on my exhibitions, events, collaborations and adventures.

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Capsulenz.com online article on ‘Dear Virus… A cartoonist chronicles love and life in the [...]'

Pay close attention to the hair! Maria Hoyle talks to friend and cartoonist Anna Crichton about her upcoming book, which immortalises the...

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Dear Virus…A cartoonist chronicles love and life in the time of Covid

Here’s how I spent my weeks in lockdown. Scratching away in my studio in the bush two peculiar characters started forming in my mind, two...

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I've got to hongi a camel!

I’m in Bhuj, this desert town I mythologized about as being full of Turbaned Rabari village people and camels wandering the streets. They...

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Under the Pipal tree

I wish I was a writer and the need to write a real need. I think this blog is more a diary that I am unlikely to otherwise write in...

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"In my heart I'm a millionaire"

I must sit down and discipline myself to write before I don’t. The calling street vendor selling edible pods of dahl and tamarind water...

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Five husbands in one day in Ahmedabad

I knew I was in India when I saw a young girl of about eight (probably 15) at a chaotic major intersection performing circus like...

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Off to find the wood block carvers of Pethapur, India

Hey all of you out there who might have the time to accompany me on my next journey – I’m off to a small town outside Ahmedabad, Gujurat,...

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India exhibition 'Ragpicker at 4am'

Thanks to all of you who followed my adventures in Varanasi last year. The embroideries and wood blocking you have seen in my blog are...

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A lunch fit for a goddess

Ramesh is embroidering my final designs, and I’m out searching for yet more rikshaw canvas canopies to back them with – enhancing my...