Last year I was lucky to go on a month long trip to Europe, I decided to use an A5 Moleskine watercolour album to document my trip. It started in the UK with an intensely arty weekend. First was the
Urban Sketching – Part 1
Advent Challenge 21 – in good taste
The Victorian Garden is a creative idea worth sharing. Lindsay Salthouse started the company, using recipes for skin care products found in a collection of diaries written by her great-grandmother. She started out small, and has since gone from strength
Advent Challenge 18 – Angela Smythe
It was one of those viral things, someone likes a page on facebook, and being nosy you go over to have a look and discover someone who tickles your funny bone. That’s how I found Angela Smythe who is based
Advent challenge 13 – Christmas stockings
No artist featured today, but instead a creative idea with creative results. Getting socks for Christmas always seems like a bit of a cliche. Especially when the socks are for that man who is impossible to buy for. My father
Advent Challenge 12 – Catherine Rayner
Today’s artist is Catherine Rayner. I admire her wonderful painterly style and how her animal characters are such individuals. Her bio from her website: Award winning author and illustrator Catherine Rayner studied Illustration at Edinburgh College of art. She fell
Advent challenge 11 – Marguerite Brennan
For seven years, I played with clay at the New Jersey Centre for Visual Arts under the gentle guidance of Marguerite Brennan. Marguerite is a an incredibly creative ceramic artist. She specializes in hand building techniques so there is always
Advent Challenge 10 – James Mayhew
James Mayhew is author and illustrator. He is famous for the Katie books and the Ella Bella books, both series introducing young readers to fine art, ballet, and museums. His list on amazon runs to three pages of interesting reads
Advent Challenge 8 – Icecream Sunday
When I was at art college, I was friends with a fellow inmate (yes it was a mad house) whose father owned The Little Red Schoolhouse ice cream factory. This may have been insignificant, except that the factory was a
Engraved on my heart
Timing is always important when it comes to wedding invitations. Although this client is getting married later on in the year, she had an opportunity to post her overseas invitations during a trip to see family and needed the design
Designing with heart
I was approached in the car park of HeronBridge College with a request: “We want you to redesign our prospectus, Nando’s Style”. My first reaction to this was: “huh?” Nando’s is well-known for its off-the-wall advertising, but how do you relate a