At the beginning of this year I said to myself I’m going to say YES to opportunities that presented themselves to me to shake me out of my comfort zone.So far this year is proving to have a great big dollop of comfort zone shaking!
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Last Wednesday I delivered my work to Susan Leeson, at Eastgate Studios in Beverley, East Yorkshire. What a lovely town!
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Every year, pre-Covid lockdowns, I tried to attend printmaking workshops run by other artists to improve my own printmaking skills and bring a fresh perspective to my own art prints.
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Have you ever thought what an artist does every day? Any serious artist making a living from our art needs to spend time getting the word out to YOU, the audience, the people we want to buy our work. It's rarely all about being up to our elbows in paint or in my case, ink!
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A Quick Heads Up!
If you’ve purchased from me before you will know that on each product page there is the option to select Click and Collect. This means if you live within a reasonable distance of my studio you can come and visit the studio to see where the magic happens whilst collecting your order.
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The time is right for some new additions to my gift collections.
It’s been a while given the hiatus created by the pandemic. It is definitely time to introduce some new designs. Some of them are familiar - they were introduced last year as greeting cards and mini art prints.
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Spring has sprung! The garden is full of daffodils, the bees are out foraging and the birds are really giving it a lot of welly at the moment. In the meantime I’ve been squirrelling away in the studio.
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Being a professional artist is challenging!
You might think I spend all my time in the studio making prints, but that's not the case.
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Reducing Plastic Waste Brings an Unintended Bonus!
Newsletter subscribers and regular customers know that last year I began to look into ways of reducing the amount of plastic I use in packaging.
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I’m very excited to announce that my first solo exhibition, ‘Under Celestial Skies’,
at Birch Tree Gallery, 23A Dundas Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH3 6QQ
February 2nd - 26th 2022.
Opening times: Tuesdays to Saturdays 11 am - 4 pm.
For many of us the amount of additional time we’ve been forced to spend in our homes has resulted in an upsurge of home decorating and home renovations. If we can’t easily spend money on foreign travel some are spending that holiday money giving our homes a revamp.
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