Welcome to Mamamia’s art endeavour, the Voulez-Vous Project. Every week we celebrate emerging artists, designers, illustrators, creators and  women who knit using their vaginas . (Kidding. Maybe.)

The aim: to make the internet a slightly more beautiful, captivating, or thought-provoking place. To find out more about the Voulez-Vous project,  click here .

This week’s featured artist is Laura Blythman, a designer, illustrator and creative director whose work has the ability to make people smile.

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“I’m drawn to colour because it just makes me so happy, it never fails to lift my mood,” Laura says.

Her process is a little unconventional and involves doing the painting first – before cutting it up, and putting it all back together.

“Lately my process involves… covering loads of big sheets of beautiful watercolour paper in a variety of delicious colours and copper or gold leaf. Then I cut the sheets up into a million pieces and put them back together again as new artworks. I often add my signature hand drawn and painted detail too.”

“I love making people smile with my work,” she says. “When I exhibited at Supergraph earlier this year, a pretty common comment was along the lines of ‘Your work has just made me feel 20% happier’. It was SO awesome hearing that.”

If you’d like to see more of Laura Blythman’s work (or even consider purchasing a piece!) you can visit her website, online shop, Facebook, or follow her on Instagram at @laurablythman.

Do you know an artist (or are YOU an artist) who creates beautiful or thought-provoking work and whom you think should be featured on Mamamia’s Voulez-Vous Project? Send an email to info@

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