Tablo Booklet-v5

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About Tablo Studio
The Artists
Art is a powerful tool – it can change perceptions, challenge beliefs and even
inspire courage and greatness. At Tablo Studio, we want everyone to have
access to this seemingly endless well of inspiration.
Our intent is simple: as drivers of an emerging self-awareness movement, we
help to connect you with the artists and creative elements that encourage you
to craft meaningful art that reflects who you are and what you want from life.
We believe that where your attention goes, energy flows. By creating a piece
of art that resonates with your goals and focuses your mind, we hope to help
you tap into the huge wealth of hidden power that resides within you.
Welcome to Tablo Studio – a world of beauty & meaning.
Stuart McLachlan
Stuart McLachlan began his career as an illustrator in Adelaide,
Australia after completing a degree in illustration and Graphic Design.
Working in Melbourne, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Sydney,
his work has been published globally appearing in magazines such as
The Economist, The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter and Newsweek.
Clients such as Australia Post have commissioned him to do several stamp series
for them including the 2016 Christmas Nativity Stamp series. Activision recently
used his talents to create Snapchat filters and posters for their 2017 “Call of Duty
WW2” release which were featured in the U.S and Britain.
Over the last few years Stuart has shifted his attention to the world of paper art and
has become internationally recognised as one of the premier artists in this field.
Using hand cut paper he creates images, art objects and pieces for the
fashion, advertising and editorial areas. These hand-made pieces have been
commissioned as art and have made their way onto the fashion runways and
into magazines such as Vogue, Karen magazine, Marie Claire as well as onto book
covers, posters and advertising campaigns.
His paper work has been catalogued in art books such as Paper Art (Hong Kong),
“PaperCraft” (Berlin) , “Paperworks 1 & 2 “ (China), and PaperCuts” (U.S.A.) which
delves behind the scenes of 25 of the worlds top paper artists.
His works have been in many exhibitions as well as being auctioned off at The
Rockefeller Centre in New York by Christies Auction House.
Stuart continues to create art objects and is currently producing new works for
both solo and joint shows in the coming year.
Apartment Block pages 8-11, Floating Rocks pages 12-15,
Reflections pages 16-19, Pinstripe Man and Woman pages 20-23
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Nancy Liang
Nancy is a Sydney-based artist and illustrator who focuses on
tales of urban landscapes, city streets and the often-forgotten
places of suburbia. She represents these subject matters using
drawing and craft paper cut-outs arranged in the visual form of a diorama. Her
practice also extends off the page from print to animation, where she enjoys
creating animated scenes and looping GIFs.
In 2016 Nancy was awarded the gold medal at the Society of Illustrators
awards as well as World Illustration Awards Winner Best New Talent Editorial.
In 2015 she was the winner in the Silver Category at the Illustrators Australia
Awards.
She has been widely published both in Australia, UK and USA and has been
exhibited in Germany, Korea, USA, China, UK and Australia.
Urban Landscapes pages 24–25
Simon Cardwell
Simon Cardwell is an internationally published fine art
photographer based in Sydney, Australia.
He has been commissioned to shoot many commercial projects
from feature film to stills photography.
His work has been exhibited internationally and his clients include Vogue and
Elle magazines, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures and Sony Studios as well as
the Sydney Dance Company and the Australian Ballet.
His awards include the Illustrators Award in 2012 and 2013.
He was a finalist in the Haselhurst Art Prize – Works on Paper in 2013 and a
finalist for the Moran Prize in 2012.
Tree of Life pages 36–37
Mekel
Growing up, Mekel always loved to draw. Especially girls in
pretty dresses. She thought about being a fashion designer
but quickly realised she hated sewing and went on to study
graphic arts instead.
After working for over 10 years as a graphic designer for different boutique
agencies in Perth, Western Australia, Mekel started kickin’ goals as a full-time
illustrator.
Her first professional assignments were illustrating ‘More Money for Shoes’
a book by Melissa Browne, and was chosen by Urban Walkabout to illustrate
the front covers of their Perth guides over the course of two seasons. You
may have seen her handwritten logo for Betts Shoes, shoebox and large
watercolour murals for the iconic Australian store.
Mekel joined the Jacky Winter Group in 2014, and now works with clients
across the world, including Twinings, TOPSHOP, Westfield, Elle and Revlon.
She has been interviewed by Vanity Fair and featured as one of their ‘5 mustfollow
fashion illustrators’, and is known for her delicate line work, large scale
watercolours and pops of bright colour.
Mekel has held three solo exhibitions, her first in 2013 for the Perth Fashion
Festival, 2014 ‘Wanderlust‘ for Urban Couture and 2016 for the First Monday
in May Perth premiere.
Mekel lectures at South Metropolitan TAFE teaching social media, eMarketing,
branding and fashion illustration.
Watercolours pages 32–35
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Christopher Nielsen
Christopher Nielsen’s illustrations flow forth from a love of
vintage design. His first comics were printed in 1980 after
entering a competition in the Norwegian Anarchist magazine.
Tin toys, Mexican wrestlers, Matchboxes, Medical Charts
and Indian Goddesses all jostle for attention amongst the flotsam and
jetsam in his flip-top head. His images have been adopted by wineries, zoos,
department stores, radio stations and fish mongers around the globe. When
he’s not making images for you or raising children he can be found on stage
with his band The Ramalamas.
His clients include Myer Dept. Store, Penguin Random House, Little Hare
Publishing, Lion Beverages, Variety, Taronga Zoo, Yalumba, Mental Floss,
Luxury Traveller, Kelloggs, Toyota, Audi, H2GO Water, ABC, GQ Magazine, The
Sydney Morning Herald, K.W. Doggett Fine Papers, Jazeera Airlines, Real Deals
Europe, Wish Magazine, MINI International, P&N Bank & Hemispheres.
Celine Singh
Celine is originally from Paris, France but has spent most
of her life living abroad. She is fluent in French, English and
German and regularly works in all 3 languages.
She studied art and design in Paris, and then went on to complete a 2nd
degree in London before moving to Montreal in early 2016.
Her designs include branding, logos and stationery as well as prints and
illustrations.
Her design studio is called Atelier Céline. “Atelier” means studio in French
and is a wink to her roots. Indeed, her designs have a bit of a European flair
to them!
Kid’s Art pages 38–39
Christopher’s work has been acknowledged by The AGDA Awards, 3x3,
Communication Arts, American Illustration, Society Of Illustrators NY, Luerzers
Archive, Hotshop Awards and The Creative Annual. He has received Gold,
Silver and Bronze medals in the Illustrators Australia Awards.
Tattoo Man and Woman pages 26–31
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Apartment Block
STUART McLACHLAN
CAREER Small risk, small life. Big risk, big life.
FAMILY The bond that links your true family is
not one of blood, but of respect and joy.
We’ve all lived in an apartment at some point in our life, a
place of new people,new beginnings and constant change.
It’s a microcosm of the greater world, a frenetic place to hope and dream in,
to create the lives we want for ourselves in a thriving metropolis. What is most
important to you or what have you forgotten that was? Build the apartment
that you’ve always wanted to live in.
FRIENDS Hospitality is love in action.
CHILDREN Celebrate each
child’s uniqueness.
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Apartment Block
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FITNESS Success is the sum of all
efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
MINDFULNESS A place for everything
and everything in its place.
RELAXATION The time to relax is
when you don’t have time for it.
HELPING OTHERS We stand tall when
we stoop to help a stranger.
KEEP LEARNING You are always a
student. Never a master. You have to
keep moving forward.
LEISURE Happiness is part of who we
are. Joy is the feeling.
TRAVEL I haven’t been everywhere
but it’s on my list.
TRY NEW THINGS I am not a product
of my circumstances. I am a product
of my decisions.
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Floating Rocks
STUART McLACHLAN
ARTS AND CULTURE Art
is where imagination
and reality meet.
CHILDREN It is easier to
build strong children
than to repair broken
men.
FITNESS Who is strong?
One who overpowers
his inclinations.
The juxtaposition of dense rocks floating weightlessly
in the air opens a world of possibility.
Your dreams, passions, people and motives are designed into little island
worlds, precious in their own right. Dot your path with these islands and put
front and centre what is most important, remind yourself of what you need
to focus on to get to the world you would like to see in front of you.
CAREER Keep your feet
on the ground and your
head in the clouds.
FAMILY Cherish your
human connections.
FRIENDS Nothing but
heaven itself is better
than a friend who is
really a friend.
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Floating Rocks
STUART McLACHLAN
PARTNERS
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GIVING BACK
Always give something
back.
HELPING OTHERS The
most basic of all human
needs is the need to
understand and to be
understood.
LEISURE Happiness
is not something you
postpone for the future,
it’s something you
design for the present.
Love is friendship
that has caught fire.
It is quiet understanding,
mutual confidence,
sharing and forgiving. It
is loyalty through good
and bad times.
SPIRITUALITY Faith is
taking the first step even
when you don’t see the
whole staircase.
TRAVEL Places to go,
people to see.
STAY ACTIVE Without a
sense of urgency, desire
loses it’s value.
HEALTH Eating well is a
form of self-respect.
KEEP LEARNING
Happiness comes after
that achievement of
a difficult task that
demanded our best.
MINDFULNESS Our life
is what our thoughts
make it.
RELAXATION Find
the stillness in every
moment.
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Reflections
STUART McLACHLAN
CAREER Far and away the best prize that life has to
offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
KEEP LEARNING Always do your best. What you
plant now, you will harvest later.
FRIENDS AND FAMILY
If you think my hands
are full, you should see
my heart.
Simpler than my other artworks, ’Reflections’ is just that,
a mirror on what is the absolute most important to you.
This artwork is designed to show this in the barest of ways, removing all the
peripheral clutter, leaving only the symbols of what truly represent your
greatest loves.
PARTNER A happy marriage is the union of
two good forgivers.
TRY NEW THINGS
If you hear a voice
within you say ‘you
cannot paint’, then by all
means paint, and that
voice will be silenced.
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Reflections
STUART McLACHLAN
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GRATITUDE If you want
to find happiness, find
gratitude.
LEISURE Play with abandon. Laugh.
SPIRITUALITY Love yourself. Accept yourself.
Forgive yourself.
HELPING OTHERS The
little things can make all
the difference.
ARTS AND CULTURE It takes a lot of courage to show
your dreams to someone else.
FITNESS Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
OPTIMISM If you want to
be happy, choose to be
optimistic.
RELAXATION Your
mind will answer most
questions if you learn
to relax and wait for the
answer.
TRAVEL The world is a
book and those who
do not travel read only
one page.
MINDFULNESS Don’t let
yesterday take up too
much of today.
HEALTHY EATING
Take care of your body.
It’s the only place you
have to live.
STAY ACTIVE
Never let your
memories be greater
than your dreams.
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Pinstripe Man
and Woman
STUART McLACHLAN
CHILDREN Children
learn more from what
you are than from what
you teach.
TRY NEW THINGS
Don’t wait. The time will
never be just right.
CAREER Believe in
yourself so strongly that
the world can’t help but
believe in you too.
Whether male or female, the suit and tie have become
the symbol of this ages modern armour.
As business people, it defines power and respect. A protective shield as one
battles through the day to achieve their goals. However, there is a person
underneath who has other interests in life that need to be balanced such as
family, friends and leisure. Populate this suit with imagery dear to you to act as a
reminder of what those things are so you can truly create a life that is in balance.
KEEP LEARNING Even if
you’re on the right track,
you’ll get run over if you
just sit there.
PARTNER When I saw
you, I fell in love, and
you smiled because
you knew.
FAMILY Family is not
an important thing. It’s
everything.
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Pinstripe Man and Woman
STUART McLACHLAN
MINDFULNESS
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FRIENDS Remember
the days of the old
school yard.
HELPING OTHERS If I
am only for myself, what
am I?
RELAXATION It’s a
beautiful world, so turn
off your computer and
go outside.
Sometimes you need to
step outside, get some
air, and remind yourself
of who you are and who
you want to be.
SPIRITUALITY Faith is
taking the first step,
even when you don’t see
the whole staircase.
STAY ACTIVE Live with
intention. Walk to the
edge.
LEISURE Self-care is not about self-indulgence, it’s
about self-preservation.
TRAVEL Life is a journey,
not a destination.
ARTS AND CULTURE
Everything that is real
was imagined first.
FITNESS Just play. Have
fun. Enjoy the game.
HEALTH No one
can stay active very
long without good
health. Good health is
dependent upon proper
food and exercise,
fresh air and the right
thinking.
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Urban Landscapes
NANCY LIANG
CAREER Two
roads diverged
in a wood and I
took the one less
traveled by, and
that has made all
the difference.
CHILDREN
Being a mother
is not about what
you gave up to
have a child,
but what you’ve
gained from
having one.
GRATITUDE Do
the things you
enjoy. Cultivate
your talents.
MINDFULNESS
Our life is what
our thoughts
make it.
KEEP LEARNING
View things
from a different
perspective.
FAMILY Cherish
your human
connections.
RELAXATION The
time to relax is
when you don’t
have time for it.
SPIRITUALITY
Quiet the mind
and the soul will
speak.
TRY NEW THINGS
You are never too
old to set a new
goal or to dream
a new dream.
FRIENDS The best
portion of your
life will be the
small, nameless
moments you
spend smiling with
someone who
matters to you.
TRAVEL Travel
far enough, you
meet yourself.
FITNESS Set
goals. Reach.
Repeat.
My artwork invites you for a walk through
my urban nightscapes.
As you journey through the sleepy streets, you’ll find the sprites important to
you. They will help unearth your story and your dreams, eventually becoming
your personal suburbia.
PARTNER We
accept the love
we think we
deserve.
LEISURE
Happiness is part
of who we are. Joy
is the feeling.
ARTS AND
CULTURE There is
only one instant.
It’s right now, and
it’s eternity.
STAY ACTIVE Get
comfortable being
uncomfortable.
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Tattoo Man
and Woman
CHRISTOPHER NIELSEN
CAREER You’ve arrived.
Drawing upon a previous project where I had utilised
tattoos, I decided that body art would be the perfect
vehicle for representing our different sprites.
FAMILY The bond that
links your true family is
not one of blood, but of
respect and joy.
I went in search of tattoos with layers of meaning that could accommodate
everyone’s aspirations whilst also remaining intensely personal. Vintage
posters and the textures they gather also played a big part in creating the art.
To me they always feel like some kind of journey has been undertaken.
KEEP LEARNING View things from a
different perspective.
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Tattoo Man and Woman CHRISTOPHER NIELSEN
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TRY NEW THINGS To hell with
circumstance. I create my own.
FRIENDS If I am only for
myself, what am I?
ARTS AND CULTURE
Art is not what you see
but what you make
others see.
PARTNER Love is
friendship set on fire.
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Tattoo Woman CHRISTOPHER NIELSEN
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GIVING BACK If you want to find happiness,
find gratitude.
LEISURE Ever notice how ‘what the hell’ is
always the right answer?
MINDFULNESS If you
want to be happy,
choose to be optimistic.
FITNESS If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
TRAVEL The world only
exists in your eyes, you
can make it as big or as
small as you want.
HEALTH A healthy outside starts from
the inside.
SPIRITUALITY Replace
fear with faith.
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Watercolours
MEKEL
CAREER Self confidence
is the best outfit. Rock it
and own it.
PARTNER When I saw you I fell in love, and you
smiled because you knew.
KEEP LEARNING You can
never be over-dressed
or over-educated.
I created this artwork full of life, with pieces that resonated
with me, to inspire you to focus on your goals.
Visually bringing what’s important to you through a story of colour and
positive images and whimsical watercolours, I hope my work stimulates your
senses every time you look at it.
TRY NEW THINGS Do
one thing every day that
scares you.
FAMILY If you think my hands are full, you should
see my heart.
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GIVING BACK/
GRATITUDE If you want
to find happiness, find
gratitude.
CHILDREN Being a
mother is not about
what you gave up to
have a child, but what
you’ve gained from
having one.
TRAVEL The greatest
secrets are always
hidden in the most
unlikely places.
HELPING OTHERS Take
time to help a friend
in need.
ARTS AND CULTURE
Imagination is more
than knowledge.
MINDFULNESS Do
not let the behavior of
others destroy your
inner peace.
STAY ACTIVE If you
aren’t motivated, your
goals aren’t inspiring
enough.
FRIENDS A friend allows
us to be our true self
and the best that we
can be.
LEISURE She lives the life she always imagined.
SPIRITUALITY My
religion is kindness.
FITNESS Your body can
stand almost anything.
It’s your mind you have
to convince.
HEALTH Enjoy new
foods.
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Tree of Life
SIMON CARDWELL
My intention is to create an art work to remind us
of the importance of the Tree of Life.
Within our own lives we often have obstacles and journeys that we are able
to learn from. This tree contains whimsical / fun ideas that you can look at as
part of your inspired journey.
CAREER Always
do your best. What
you plant now, you
will harvest later.
KEEP LEARNING
Learning is a cure
for aging that no
one talks about.
TRY NEW THINGS
If you do nothing
unexpected,
nothing
unexpected
happens.
CONTEMPLATION
Being mindful
means noticing
your thoughts
and letting
them pass, not
controlling them.
FAMILY Build
strong roots for
your family tree.
FRIENDS You
become like the
five people you
spend the most
time with. Choose
carefully.
HELPING OTHERS
A single act of
kindness throws
out roots in all
directions, and
the roots spring
up and make new
trees.
MINDFULNESS
When distractions
come, remember
what matters
most to you.
FITNESS After
climbing a great
hill, one only finds
that there are
many more hills
to climb.
ARTS AND
CULTURE When
you laugh or
smile, it triggers
a part of your
brain that actually
makes you happy.
LEISURE Find the
stillness in every
moment.
SPIRITUALITY If
the only prayer
you say in your
whole life is
“thank you”, that
would suffice.
CHILDREN
Happiness is
wanting what
you have got.
PARTNER The
best portion of
your life will be the
small, nameless
moments you
spend smiling with
someone who
matters to you.
STAY ACTIVE
After climbing
a great hill, one
only finds that
there are many
more hills to
climb.
TRAVEL
The pessimist
complains about
the wind; the
optimist expects
it to change; the
realist adjusts the
sails.
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Kid’s Art
Celine Singh
These illustrations are inspirational pieces for children.
As a mother of 3 myself, I’m always looking at creative way to impart important
messages onto them in a way that will leave an imprint. And as an added bonus,
it’s also nice to be surrounded by beautiful things!
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