Cambridge Contemporary Crafts

I'm very lucky to have Cambridge Contemporary Crafts selling my framed prints and tea towels in their lovely gallery in Bene't Street.  Their Christmas show is now up and running and here is what they have to say about it: "CCC is celebrating the festive season with All Wrapped Up, featuring a selection of stunning pieces by artists working locally and nationwide. The show is on from 2nd November until 24th December. All works exhibited in the gallery are hand-made and hand-picked from the best of British craft, making for truly individual gift ideas. Set in a beautiful 16th century building, All Wrapped Up will indulge your festive spirit; come along and find your hidden treasures!"

Latest Drypoint Prints

I've been working on some ideas for prints that incorporate the beautiful vessels made by Katharina Klug, with her permission.  At our Christmas Show last year I bought one of her white 'bottles' in which I have placed some dried seed heads.  I thought the graphic shapes and patterns she uses in her 3D work would make the perfect subject matter for my 2D prints.

I sometimes think that the printing 'plates' are as interesting as the finished prints. So, taking that idea further I have made four special 'plates' that will be placed in box frames.  I will post images when they are back from being framed.

New Coasters added to Shop

More new items added to my shop are these four coaster designs.  They are just £3.50 each, making ideal Christmas gifts.

New Goldfinch Tea Towel Colours

My new screen-printed tea towels are now available in my online shop.  I wonder which of the new colours will be the most popular?

Two Birds

This is my 100th post on my blog, so I thought I'd show you a close up of my new card published by Phoenix Trading as in the previous post it's hard to see the quality of the printing.  I really like the matt watercolour-style heavyweight paper they use.  This design has also been 'debossed' to give it the impression that it's been handprinted like old fashioned letter-press printing.

I think this is one of my favourite designs I've done for them in a while and they retail for only £1.50.

New Tea Towels ordered

I have just placed an order for my Goldfinch tea towels to be re-printed in these lovely new colours.  They should be on my website by mid October.

October 1st - new product day

I really must update my blog more often, but I'm so busy designing and working to deadlines it doesn't take priority.  However I do try and put things on facebook more regularly as it's quicker and more immediate, so if you haven't looked on there for a while follow this link to my page.

So what have I been working on?  The above is a new card design from Phoenix Trading released today.  It is called Two Birds (code: WS285). It has de-bossed images which creates a 'letterpress'/hand-printed effect. 

Here are some fun colour-in finger puppets I was asked to design. A mixture of 17 farm animals and people plus 7 pieces of 'scenery' that stand up. Let your imagination run wild! You too could colour a chicken green.  (code: CP008)