Geeez, I’m going a bit crazy with the blogging today (procrastinating you could say) but I just found these guys and their work has got me excited like I haven’t been for ages!
Lab Partners are a creative duo based in San Francisco who work wonders with the gocco printer. They sell their hand printed wares on etsy though as I type, their shop is being updated. I’m very fussy when it comes to buying contemporary art but I simply must have these 2 prints below…..they have captured the 50s modernist aesthetic perfectly and by keeping the images just about understated enough - they could be mistaken for mid century originals. I love it!
At last I can now share with you a job I completed a few months ago. Elmwood commissioned me on behalf of ASDA (huge supermarket chain, for all you non UK visitors)
They needed new artwork for their own brand facial tissues. The first pics show the cube box design followed by the flat box style. Unfortunately I don’t have any shots of the actual item but here are the patterns which wrapped around the whole box.
I was quite pleased with the final designs, actually it was surprisingly quick to get approved. I really enjoyed working on these and hope to do more packaging design in the future.
If ever you should take a fancy to one of my patterns you now have the option to download a file to brighten up your pc/mobile or any other type of screen or digital display. Digital Bloom provides a quick and affordable way to personlise your gadgets with digital artwork.
I shall be updating my images this week so do check in again if you can’t find what you want just yet.
One of the tasks I’m dealing with at the moment is getting my prints into new galleries. I put out a few feelers a couple of weeks ago - so far just looking at the South East area - and am really chuffed to have received positive responses from them all. So far, you can now you can find my prints available to purchase from Bluemoon in Tunbridge Wells and Riverside Art in Lewes. Both galleries offer a really diverse selection of art and sculpture, in very unpretentious surroundings.
If you are in the Brighton region during August you must pay the Fishing Museum a visit. It hosts various intriguing exhibitions throughout the year and between August 6th and 17th you will find a gorgeous selection of work for sale by Fiona Howard and Kate Jenkins aka FiFi and Cardigan.
Fishing Quarter Gallery, 203 King’s Road Arches, Brighton BN1 1NB
Tuesday 6th ~ Monday 17th August. Opening Times 11am to 5pm.
Make a note in your Creative Happenings diaries - there will also be a chance to win a prize!
Phew! once we were settled into our lovely new flat in placid Hove it took another 2 weeks for 02 to get us reconnected to the internet. I don’t understand how it can take quite that long to sort something like this but boy, was it starting to cheese me off! These days we are all encouraged by banks/stores/utility companies to manage our lives online so it really did cause quite an inconvenience to be offline this long, let alone try and run a business from home therefor today is actually quite exciting (how sad!)
Ok, one has to keep things in perspective - in the grand scheme of things this is no issue, I’m over it now! Back to work.
The first thing I created was ‘Safe in the Burrow’. A new giclee print which will soon be available on Etsy. I’d had a sketch in my note book for months and in just over one day I managed to finally get it out into vectors - a little early Autumnal offering.
I’ve finally managed to start setting up the Etsy store I’ve been harping on about for the past couple of months! So far there are only 4 giclee prints ready to buy but it’s something I shall be gradually stocking up over the coming weeks.
I won’t be posting up items until they are actually physically printed which I can’t do from my home studio - I rely on my good chum Graham Carter for that. He is master of the printer we affectionately know as ‘The Beast’.
It’s big and slow but produces great quality prints so, thanks Mr C!
Art Angels have just sent samples of cards featuring a couple of my prints: ‘Satin Bowerbird’ and ‘Magpie’s Treasure’. I first heard of Art Angels when I picked up a set of cards featuring Angie Lewin’s wood and lino cut prints.
They’ve compiled a range called ‘Printmakers’ which focuses on British printmakers and these sell throughout the UK and US in design led shops and galleries. The quality of print is excellent with a subtle embossed finish - I’m really pleased with them and early reports indicate these are already getting a great response from stockists.
Another print ‘Winter Field’ is due to feature on cards later in the year plus a few pattern designs will be making an appearance on giftwrap.
The original silk screen prints of these and others are available at Boxbird, Soma and Castor and Pollux. C & P also stock some of the Jonathan Adler white ceramics you can see in the first pic!
