Tuesday 7 February 2012

Event at The Bird's Nest

Come along to the lovely Bird's Nest Café in Shrewsbury's Indoor Market on Saturday for great food and coffee, live music and a chance to see some of my new art prints.


Thanks to Aaron and Victor for a fabulous venue and a lot of fun. The market is Shrewsbury's best kept secret and one of my favourite places in town.

Severn Magazine Feature

Some very flattering comments about me in Severn Magazine, January issue. A great new magazine for Shrewsbury.

Wednesday 11 January 2012

On the Sunny Side of the Street

Turquoise-Orange
Multi
Black-cream

Greys

Blue-red
Blues


Life can be so sweet...on the sunny side of the street...in Shrewsbury. 


I made this drawing to celebrate my home town. I have lived here for twenty years now and come to love the meandering streets and shuts of the old town centre that lies within a loop of the River Severn. The street names are idiosyncratic and evocative of a long history. All the buildings are very varied and I have mixed them up which is the way it feels when you wander around the town. I've had fun trying out the drawing in different colours. Soon to be available online.

Saturday 7 January 2012

New Stamps

From geology to the present day
I spent a few happy days before Christmas making stamps for Shrewsbury Museum. It's such fun to make physical objects from scratch. My good friend Jean of Crafty Individuals kindly made the rubber sheets for us and we encountered a steep learning curve actually making them up, never having done this before! The designs are taken from my illustrations for the new Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery at present being constructed in the old Music Hall.  The new Museum is so exciting, incorporating as it does, so many ancient, beautiful and intriguing buildings. My illustrations represent the collections, also endlessly fascinating. They are designed to be used as icons on products, doors and banners. Here is one of the first, and tiniest, uses!