My new Christmas Card Design for 2013

My apologies for putting these on my blog so soon but drum roll please…

Here is my new Christmas card design for this year! It is titled 'Christmas Presents!' and is a picture of my cat Poppy and my friends lovely dog Louie who she kindly let me borrow to work from!

Christmas Presents!

And of course here my two popular card designs from last year all available for sale now through my stockists!!!

 Timmy- Santa's Little Helper!

Hannah - Santa's Little Helper!

 

I hope you like them!!!

Macmillan's Biggest Coffee Morning

On Friday 27^th of September I was privileged to be part of Macmillan’s Biggest Coffee Morning at Rag’s Restaurant in Bridlington. This is one of Macmillan's biggest fundraising events were people across the UK hold a coffee morning. All donations on the day are made to Macmillan and in 2012 115,000 people signed up, raising a record £15 million.

My contribution to the event was some lovely home baked goods to go with coffee which I hope people enjoyed! I made Raspberry Swiss Rolls and Lemon Drizzle Slices!

I also had my own stall alongside the local gifting shop Serendipity; we all had a lovely time and met some great people. All in all Rags Restaurants event raised £340.88 which I think is an amazing amount of money going to a very good cause.

 

Here are a few pictures of my stall

 

 



 

And here is Serendipity's Stall

 

Charity Exhibition for a Good Cause!

From Saturday 5^th October till Sunday 20^th October The Riverside in Sheffield will see the special exhibition ‘Don’t Judge a Dog by its Collar!’

This exhibition is a charity fundraising exhibition in aid of Rain Rescue a small pet rescue charity in Sheffield saving the lives of hundreds of abandoned and abused cats and dogs since 2002.

All artworks have been donated by artists from Sheffield and the UK and I am very happy to be amongst those artists who will be exhibiting.

All work will be on sale via auction and works can be bid on at the exhibition or via the facebook page www.facebook.com/RainRescue and money will go directly to the charity. So please give generously it is a really good cause!

All are very welcome to the Preview which will be on Saturday 5^th October were you can meet the dogs and listen to live music!

Venue:  The Riverside

1         Mowbray Street

Sheffield

S3 8EN

 

 

Lots of Previews!!!

It seems this weekend that everyone along the Yorkshire Coast was having art previews and so for the art lover out there, there were lots of previews to choose from!

Friday 6^th September was also the evening of my group exhibition at Ga11ery Eleven in Filey; the ‘untitled’ exhibition is an eclectic mix of anything from seascapes to liquorice Allsorts! The atmosphere was amazing as the gallery was full to the brim; I haven’t been to a preview this packed out in a while so it was great to be part of.

Ga11ery Eleven owner Fiona - Having a good time before doors openned!

 

Lots of lovely wine and nibbles!

 

The exhibition is featuring some of my original artworks alongside my gifting range. Also exhibited is work by Wendy Tate, Caroline Thompson and many more. The exhibition is now on display until Saturday 30^th November!

A mixed of my original art work and gifting range!

My Eco Bags in Baubles!

Artwork by Caroline Thompson

 

This weekend I also visited another preview on Saturday 7^thSeptember featuring the work of two lovely artists Angela Chalmers and Bren Head amongst others at Gallery Forty-Nine in Bridlington. I attended university with Angela so I am very familiar with her beautiful works but I haven’t seen Bren’s work many times before. I was captivated by the haunting beauty of her work and certain areas where the paint layers were striped back and reapplied which gave amazing texture. ‘Bodyscape’ is now on until 28^th September.

Bren Head

Angela Chalmers

 

If you didn't make the previews then there is plenty of time to go and view the exhibitions!

 

Guerilla Galleries - London

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The White Swan

The White Swan is a beautiful gastro pub set in the lovely village of Gilling West, Richmond. It is a family run business which only recently re-opened in July 2013 after major refurbishment:

 “Our vision is to create a country pub which blends the modern with the traditional and provide a platform to showcase the region... Local produce, Local products, Local people.”

They believe that the pub has more to offer than the food and drink it serves, being something like the hub of the community. They have strived to create confortable surroundings, the perfect ambience, and atmosphere and of course a warm welcome to everyone.

Their vision to support local produce has been extended beyond the fantastic drinks and food to also include local fine artists and musicians too. Their fine art collection so far includes painting, photography, sculpture and crafts which the public are able to purchase.

I love the very sole and ethos of this place and so I am very pleased to announce that they have become one of my latest stockists! At the moment they are stocking a selection of my framed Limited Edition Prints, Canvas Make-up Bags, Cotton Eco Bags and my greetings card range.  In time I am hoping to add to this collection and hopefully stock some seasonal items in the upcoming months!

 

Here is where to find them:

The White Swan | 51 High Street | Gilling West | Richmond | North Yorkshire | DL10 5JG

http://www.thewhiteswan.co/The_White_Swan/Welcome.html

July -A lot has been going on!

July has been and gone! But for me I will always remember this one in particular as it has been spectacular, not only for my work but I’ve been having a blast too!

In early July I went to ‘The Scripts #3 gig’ at Bridlington’s Spa Royal Hall and actually got to personally meet the whole group getting autographs and photographs with them all! I never expected to do this but I’m quite a big ‘Script Fan’ so I was made up by this and will never forget that amazing night!

Here is me with Mark from The Script!

Then if that wasn’t enough I went on holiday to Dublin and had a great time there, then the day after we returned I had an invitation to attend a lunch time concert at Bridlington’s Priory Church Celebrating the visit of Prince Charles and Camilla! Where Prince Charles shook my hand and spoke to me! WOW is all I can say to that!

Me outside Bridlington Priory Church after meeting Prince Charles! (unfortunatly we couldn't take pictures inside the Church)

 

 

As for Art Work…

For a while now I’ve been producing new work for my group exhibition at Guerilla Galleries in London and this has now been framed and sent!

The exhibition schedule has been changed slightly and the original ‘Comic Book’ exhibition I have been producing work for has been swapped and moved to October but I was also asked to exhibit in ‘Random Acts of Artistry 2’ which has been pushed forward to August! The end result is I now have two exhibitions in London instead of one!  

For August I will try to come back down to reality working hard and moving forward! But still exciting times are ahead as I will be included in my first London exhibition ‘Random Acts of Artistry 2’; I will be having a workshop at the Bridlington Priory and preparing for other exciting events! So watch this space!