Angie Lewin Sofa

Look at this! How marvellous! St. Jude's have collaborated with Sofa.com to create a new range of furniture. How can I make room for an extra chair?!

Late Winter in Prague

We had a few days in Prague last week. The city was beautiful in it's Winter snow- the temperature down to -18 on one night!
I was very inspired by the work of Alfons Mucha, we saw a big collection of his Art Nouveau posters at the Mucha Museum. It is amazing how his work has influenced so many aspects of art and design.

Lots of Drawing.

 I've been working up this 'British Birds' idea that I started when I was on my hols last September. I'm trying to make a long, narrow composition with a Springtime feel. Starting with these sketches, then drawing up the design ready to make a print later this week.
My ink and brushes tin fits right in with the theme.
I'll be exhibiting at The Spring Fair at Birmingham NEC from February 5th (Hall4 stand c73), so work is apace to have some new prints ready for the show.

'Noisy Neighbours' News

Great news! Tate Publishing have almost sold out of the first edition hardback copies of 'Noisy Neighbours'. There are still some available from Tate and also a last few from Amazon.

Er, Happy New Year!

Has it really been 2 months since my last posting? Whoops-a daisy! What a slacker!
I haven't been hibernating. Most of my inactivity is due to spending all of my spare time on trying to finish our kitchen renovations. Happily, it's mostly done now.

We chose this 'Logpile' wallpaper from 'Roddy and Ginger'. Well, Foxy spotted it, and I had to admit that it was perfect, and much better than any of the ones that I had come up with!

Anti Graphic

I had a great time at Mid Century Modern on Sunday. One of the nice things about this show is that I often meet people whose work I love and get to have a little chat with them. It was a pleasure to exchange a few words with Patrick Edgeley, and I was very taken with his 'Retro Kitchen' print. I'm thinking of dropping some very unsubtle birthday hints (are you reading this dear?)
Check out more of Patrick's work here: http://www.antigraphic.biz/Retro-kitchen.html

My Kitchen

So, we finally bit the bullet and ordered a new kitchen. The old green cabinets had to go. The last few weeks have seen a spectrum of dust, chaos and mess, but it seems that little by little we are getting there.
This picture was taken a couple of weeks back. No sink, plumbing and electrics being re- routed.

And these last two show the new floor. We have a cooker now as well, it's so nice to have home cooked food again- take-away stops being a treat after day 3! Fingers crossed the rest will turn up before Santa does.