As doing festivals is such a big part of our lives, we thought you might like to hear some more about our favourites...... Elderflower Fields is always our first outing of the season and it's such a lovely way to begin the summer of festivals and fun. It is a small festival in Sussex run by the So Sussex team, which has been going for 8 years now and Naomi has been leading the team here since the start. The first year there were just 2 artists, with one being added each year

Well, that flew by quickly, didn't it. Here at Poppy & Perle we're reluctantly digging out our woollies but also hoping for a last ditch Indian summer to sweep the nation. 2017 was a funny old summer for us.Our usual festival circuit seemed a tad disjointed and harder work than previous years, partly due to our integral Naomi falling ill for a bit (she's all better now) and also to blame was the particularly muddy fields of July and August. Culminating in soggy (but wonderful

Fresh from the festival circuit, our feet have just touched the ground and we're busy catching up with admin and such. Back in June we were busy preparing for the fast approaching festival season. Here's a peek at our last studio session... To accompany our newly launched company, we redesiged our festival stall, beginning with the mass production of fabric poppies! As well as ordering new signage and decor, we wanted to create a signature body paint shot, to adorn the back o

Although the seed for our new venture was sown back in October, sheltered in an English country pub aside a roaring fire, we consider the true birth place of Poppy and Perle to be in the somewhat warmer Goa, India, two months later. Specifically, the beautiful Cozy Nook restaurant on Palolem beach was where everything came together in December last year. It was during our "business meeting" there that our ideas really started to flow and the name came to us both individually

Poppy & Perle exhibited a live body paint piece at the London Pancakes and Booze Art Show in Shadwell, East London, last night. Established in California in 2009, Pancakes and Booze is an artist movement providing an affordable platform for artists to exhibit their work and now hold events across lots of Europe. It was a pleasure to be part of - thanks for having us! #humancanvas #bodypaintingLondon #FantasymakeupLondon #HackneyWick #artLondon #facepaintingLondon #facepainti

Hello! Welcome to our shiny, new website and the exciting beginning of our joint venture, Poppy & Perle. After years of working together in this industry with our respective face and body painting businesses, becoming not only dedicated colleagues but best friends, it seemed like the most natural progression to officially collaborate and pull our energies together to collectively take our art in a new direction. With a bounty of creative projects ideas and some amazing new co