The Best of Bubbles

Except for ebulliophobes everyone loves bubbles, they’re magical and pretty and no two are the same. You can make your own with Fairy Liquid or a bath of water and pop them when you get a parcel. Here are some more of our favourites.

Suzanna Field's paintings resemble the messy bubble prints we would all make as kids. Permanent marks made by foam, paint and paper. Simple pleasures.

Luka Finesien's partly submerged plastic bubbles make you feel like you are walking on water.

Alas Simone Decker's bubbles in Venice are not sculptures but some well crafted photos. Let’s pretend, shall we, because a 6ft bubble on the street would be marvellous indeed.

Julia Randall draws bubble gum in meticulous detail, giving these discarded orbs an almost organ like quality. Familiar yet also vaguely disturbing.

Many photographers have shot bubbles but these ones stuck with us more than the others. Studio314 have captured that swirling iridescence so perfectly and the black background makes these feel like planets.

A fun way to de-stress is to attack some bubble wrap, now you can do it more ecologically with this virtual bubble wrap site. You might also like Emil Lukas’s paintings of bubble wrap.

Blowing bubbles through those little plastic wands was a favourite past time. They’ve been given a makeover by Romain Legrange in the form of a spoon. Eat your pudding and blow bubbles simultaneously, it’s a win win situation!

Visit his website to see Melvin Sokolsky's iconic series of photos for Harpers Bazaar in 1963. Models, in bubbles. Much aped though never matched. Also our new favourite mode of transport.