'Open Studios this Weekend...'

Try a relaxed approach to the festive period & pop to 'Great Western Studios' this coming weekend for our annual Christmas Open. The studios have grown vastly in the last year so lots of new bits & bobs for everyones perusal. Myself & Sophie Smallhorn have gotten together creatively, (festively even, could be the appropriate word) although there are no Santas hats on our tea towels.. Bah!

December 3rd & 4th, 12 - 6pm both days.

'Living in Patterns'

Pollyn's latest album 'Living in Patterns' holds this weeks grand accolade of being Rough Trade's record of the week. That's pretty high praise in my book. Art Director Adam Weissman is one of the bands three members. Our creative relationship stems mainly from our collaborative work with Stussy. With a title that couldn't feel more apt to oil my creative juices, I relished the opportunity to create their sleeve art. Read what they have to say here, its all good.

'Things & People'

I totally forgot to tell of Sandy Suffields unique little blog 'Things & People'. Introduced to each other via Sophie Smallhorn, a mutual friend & hugely impressive silkscreen artist & sculptor. Her premise is for you to pick a thing that has been influential in your life, accompanied by its story. There are a lot of real weepies.. so tissues to the ready. Not for mine though, its just one more tale of sibling rivalry. A consistent fave of mine is Chris, whose friend grabbed a crisp from a bag that was his doppelgänger. Such luck!

Teatowels

Our combined shows at Blackbough & Material created our first Teatowel, something I have often imagined but never gotten round to. Albeit a last minute exercise whilst finishing off Prints & hanging the shows, I'm most proud of our linens. Available to purchase online here.

Le Monde, 'M'

Being a screenprinter doesn't lend itself to the fickle, fast, tight deadlined world of Editorials. But, I still want to do them. And probably for all the afore mentioned adjectives. Unfortunately tears of sheer frustration are often at the ready.. But not this time! Paris based Art Director Eric Pillault managed to point me in his carefully thought out direction, as he had previously for fashion magazine Jalouse. Thank you Eric ; - )

A Magical Evening..

A big thanks to Blackbough & Material Gallery for being smashing hosts for our opening night of 'Unplanned Magic', on at both venues until November 5th. As well as new Prints from both Marcus & myself there are hand silkscreened teatowels & notebooks to peruse, made collaboratively by myself, Marcus, Hayley & Adam. What fun we had and hopefully this is but the beginning.

New (unplanned) things.

See more here, from October 7th.

'Unplanned Magic' in Ludlow.

One of the Proprietors of Blackbough is Adam Withington. It was Adam who successfully & fastidiously ran Great Western Studios for ten something years, nurturing the creative community that evolved from a British Rail lost goods building housed under the Westway. Since his departure he has opened Blackbough. I'm delighted to be showing my latest prints there, previewing next Friday October 7th.

The show runs concurrently with that of another silkscreen artist, the wonderfully talented Marcus Walters. A favourite of mine, Marcus's new prints will be housed just along the road at Material Gallery & bookstore. We've even knocked our creative heads into one and made a few things together. If you find yourself in Ludlow next Friday be sure to join us at both venues and then the pub next door to Blackbough for afters..