Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Brenda Green

Prints of Brenda Green's botanical drawings are just £25. These two are my favourites - the Clematis and Auricula. I like her pots, too. Pictures: Brenda Green.

Monday, 25 July 2011

Red Hen Originals

I am in love with this painting of two mice by Julia Burns - and it's only £28.50, complete with mount. Naturally, I like her paintings of pigs, too. Picture: Red Hen Originals.

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Celia Lewis

I absolutely love Surrey artist Celia Lewis's watercolours of pigs - painted from life, in her garden, of her own Gloucester Old Spots. Her paintings start at just £50, mounted and including postage, which I think is amazingly cheap. Pictures: Celia Lewis.

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Collective noun prints

I'm not really a fan of those ubiquitous "clever" typography prints you see everywhere these days, telling you to keep calm or eat local, or whatever - but I do absolutely LOVE these prints by Woop Studios. This collection is inspired by the brilliant subject of collective nouns, and includes ones I knew (like a murder of crows) and ones I didn't, and am now extremely pleased I do - such as a waddling of ducks, a troubling of goldfish and - the sweetest - a charm of finches. If I was rich I would buy the lot. Wouldn't that be amazing for a child's bedroom wall? Pictures: Woop Studios.

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Endellion

There are some truly lovely things over on Endellion, the small online shop run by Antonia Robinson and David Shields, from Charlestown in Cornwall. I'd love one of their extraordinary, fairytale-like tree lamps on my bedside table. They have a really good selection of not-crazily-extortionate paintings, too. Pictures: Endellion.

Friday, 11 March 2011

Nicholas Hely Hutchinson

They're not fashionable, and you're more likely to see them on greetings cards than museum walls, but I find there's something so uplifting about Nicholas Hely Hutchinson's paintings. They're often of landscapes I know and love - such as Dorset, Cornwall and the west coast of Ireland - or wild flower meadows, remote cottages and bluebells woods. Find some of his greetings cards, produced by Canns Down Press, at Papergrain.

Friday, 4 March 2011

Holly Lasseter



Dorset girl Holly Lasseter sells prints of her beautiful botanical watercolours for £25 each on her website, alongside hand-painted ceramics, oven mits, makeup bags and other delights. These three - plumbago, hydrangea and anemone - are my favourites.

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

Samantha Barnes

These greetings cards, featuring Samantha Barnes's watercolours of animals, are charming. You can buy them as signed prints, too - nice for a child's bedroom.
Pictures: Samantha Barnes.

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Nicole Heidaripour

I'd like to collect the whole set of Nicole Heidaripour's alphabetised fish and farmyard prints, sold at Hooper and Shaw, the lovely shop she runs in Port Isaac in Cornwall. See more of Nicole's work here.
Pictures: Hooper and Shaw.

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Sarah Woolfenden

Sarah Woolfenden's very detailed pen-and-ink drawings of trees near her home in North Devon are quite magical, I think. You can buy them as prints and cards here.

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Klaus Haapaniemi

These exquisite, earthy-hued Scandinavian throws, with designs featuring rabbits, blueberries and acorns, are by Finnish designer Klaus Haapaniemi and Swedish artist Mia Walleniusto. I love them.

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Mark Hearld for Tate

I think this might be my favourite Tate designer collaboration ever. It's from Scottish artist Mark Hearld, whose work is inspired by the British countryside. The range includes bowls, plates and cups produced for Mark by Burleigh, lovely hardback notebooks, and a set of utterly charming greetings cards that are the kind of thing I love.

Friday, 3 December 2010

Solitaire

There are so many samey greetings cards out there, but these silk-screened cards by husband and wife Matt and Em Bruty are especially pretty, I think.

Monday, 29 November 2010

Amy and Clementine

My sister Amy has just opened an Etsy store selling greetings cards of her beautiful oil paintings. I love the yellow teapot one.

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Roe deer

I would like one of these little chaps for my desk.

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Rachel Hazell

Rachel Hazell is a bookbinder of extraordinary skill. I love this collection of books she made, all about plants. As well as doing big projects for places like Few and Far and the Crafts Council she takes on really little commissions, too; binding beautifully delicate single volumes of your poetry or favourite recipes custommade to your specification.
P.S. Lucy May Schofield's books are also pretty special.

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

India Rose Bunce

I am completely wowed by young artist India Bunce's paintings of her sisters. She has only just finished school - she must be about 18. Amazing.

William de Morgan

I find browsing V & A Prints really quite addictive - there's always masses of stuff I love - and now I've got my eye on these prints of beautiful William de Morgan painted tiles, which you can buy mounted, framed and ready to hang.

Thursday, 19 August 2010

Marthe Armitage

I think local Chiswick lady Marthe Armitage might be my style icon. Her wallpaper designs, printed on the same 19th century press she's worked on since the sixties, are really beautiful (especially the brilliantly named Old Man's Beard), but I'm equally keen on her outfit of smock, apron, and thick tights and sandals. I was reminded of the amazing article on her in her studio, in a recent Gardens Illustrated, by Savilintu.
Photographs by Andrew Montgomery.

Thursday, 5 August 2010

Bridget Davies

I love Bridget Davies' watercolours of cutlery.