What I always wanted

I have been lucky enough to be involved in a new online market place called 'What I always wanted' which will feature independent designer gift and homeware shops.
I will be selling my cards, prints and small canvasses. It launches today and I am really excited to see it!

blue wren card

all my love canvas

hedgehog print

This is a little selection of what I am selling on there, please check the site for more and also lots of other artist and makers work!

Busy bee

So we are nearly into May, time seems to have run away this year. I have moved house and been unpacking things I have had in storage for years. I found these drawings I did a long time ago.

and I have been such a busy bee lately it was quite apt. I have been teaching lots of art workshops in schools and really enjoyed them. I have sent new paintings to The Janet Bell Gallery. I have also been printing and painting for a new online market place: What I always wanted-more on this to follow, it launches very soon, exciting!

Finding these pictures did remind to take time out once in a while, enjoy drawing, and not be too much of a hectic bee.

Have a lovely weekend.

The birds will always sing for you

New prints in The Design Shop, Dean Clough now....

and Valentine cards too x

Little birds and winter walks

I had made a lot of prints before Christmas, so I wanted to get back to some good old fashioned drawing. I had a break in Kent and used the time to do these...

And have lovely walks in the Garden of England...

The twelve days of Christmas

I hope you are enjoying the Christmas holidays. Before Christmas I was doing workshops at Battyeford Primary School as part of their fantastic Adopt an Artist scheme. Here are the beautiful pictures the pupils did.

I was really pleased with the results. The pupils added lots of layers to their pictures using various monoprinting techniques.

Hope you have a happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

The Art Market in Huddersfield

Last weekend I was at the Art Market in Huddersfield, as part of the Festival of Light celebrations. There was a wide variety of work on display, all to a really high standard.
This was my stand...

Christmas Stockings.

Cards.

Aura Que was opposite me.

And Liz Salters' beautiful paintings.

Helen Russell.

Print for Love of Wood.

And I'm a lucky owner of this fantastic Julie Miles vase after swapping it for one of my prints. I couldn't wait to get it home.

All in all I had a good weekend! I met some great people who said lovely things about my work. I have a commissioned print that was ordered, which I'm really looking forward to doing. And I will be getting all my new prints on my website very soon I promise.

The Art Market

Yesterday I had a great day at the Art Market, Holmfirth. I got to meet lots of lovely customers and see some very talented artists' and makers' work. In preparation I've been screen printing at home. This has taken  me a while to get used to, but it has given me a chance to experiment  more and produce more, which has been exciting. Anyway yesterday was the first time I got to see if people liked the new prints and I was so pleased that they did!

Screen printed Christmas decorations.

My stand with paintings and screen prints.

If you missed yesterday its on again this Sunday and there will be a completely new selection of artists.