Good night Snap.

Well, there it is. The curtain has fallen on what has been my creative home for the past three years. The shop has shut and the studios are slowly being cleared out. It is with a heavy heart that I leave my HQ in the centre of Bristol, but bigger and better things await. It is strange to think that when I first joined the studios, I had only ever done one screen print in my life, and now I seem to be just about making a living from it. For that, I will forever be gratefully. Thank you Snap and all who have sailed in you, we shall miss you.

The Hare

The dirty old pub sign has been scrubbed, buffed, polished, painted and varnished into a new, gleaming swing sign for The Hare public house in Bedminster, Bristol. It was lovely to be asked to create an eye catching sign for this new venture and I hope it has many happy years swinging in the breeze, attracting punters in for a pint or two.

Drinking at work!

There seems to be a large, dirty, metal pub sign in my dining room. All will be revealed very soon.

Pick Me Up. Part 2

Nice house. Lovely weather. New friends. Free badge. Free beer. Amazing work. Mini hamburgers. Long day. Good sleep. Done.

Pick Me Up

Getting all of my work ready today to ship off to Pick Me Up at Somerset House, London. Very excited to be going along under the Soma family umbrella with the likes of Peskimo, Gemma Correll, Andy Smith and Crispin Finn. I will be there to say hello on 25th (Sunday) and 31st (Saturday) so it would be lovely to see you!

Opening times: 22 March - 1 April 2012. Daily 11.00-20.00 (Thursdays until 22.00).

Embankment Galleries, South Wing.

Whata Lotta Otter!

I said he was on the horizon, and here he is. Large otter stamp is now in the shop alongside the fox, owl, puffin and squirrel.

Afforable Art Fair

Had a manic couple of days last week getting everything ready to send up to London in time for the Affordable Art Fair. It was one of those weeks where you need the screen printing to go smoothly as you have a deadline to meet, which basically means that everything goes wrong. This proved to be the case, with the exposure unit playing silly buggers, but I managed to print, frame, label and pack just in time, wrapping the final package as the delivery driver took it out of my hands! The fair runs from 15th - 18th in Battersea, with my work being exhibited with the lovely people at Wills Art Warehouse. All information is here.

If you do get along to look at some lovely art, you will have a chance to see new, larger versions of my stamps. Puffin, fox, squirrel and owl so far, with the otter to join the gang next week. For those not going, the are now available here.