Street Art – Birmingham, UK
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Pottery at Jinney Ring Craft Centre
A couple of months ago, my team at work had an away-day at Jinney Ring craft centre in Hanbury. It’s a lovely little place with duck ponds in the garden and artisan workshops. We were there for a pottery workshop. It was a mixture of hand building ceramic tiles and
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Ruan Lingyu (阮玲玉) Lino Print
This is my second film star lino cut print in a couple of weeks. This time the subject is Ruan Lingyu, 阮玲玉. Ruan was a big star of the Shanghai film industry in the 1930s. She has become an idol partly due to her suicide at the age of 24,
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LouLou Lino Print
A new monochrome linocut print, carved and printed last weekend and finally cut to size and framed this week. It’s sized 5″ x 7″ and printed on a pale purple card. The image is based on a photo of Louise Brooks. Brooks fascinates me. Her life story is a perfect tragic
中秋节快乐 ~ Mid-Autumn Festival Mooncake
中秋节快乐 / Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, an important holiday in the Chinese lunar calendar. Mooncakes (月饼), pastry cakes which normally contains red bean or lotus seed paste and salted duck egg yolk, are eaten at the Festival and are frequently given as gifts (they tend to be quite expensive).
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The Car I gave my Dad for his Birthday
Last Saturday was my Dad’s birthday so I printed him a card featuring one of his favourite things – rallying. I decided on an image of a Subaru, my Dad’s favourite, throwing up a cloud of dust. I had a go at printing it on both a white & recycled card, and it’s available
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Printed Mooncakes (月饼) for Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节)
Two years ago me and Phil were lucky enough to be in Hong Kong during the mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节). Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the major lunar festivals and there were a wide variety of celebrations taking place while we were in Hong Kong. I’ve included some pictures at the
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Renegade Craft Fair in London
This Saturday, me and Phil popped to London to visit Renegade Craft Fair. It was the second Renegade fair in London, but my first. The fair took place at the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, conveniently located right by Brick Lane market which also features some cool craft makers. I love the flyer
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If You Don’t Already Love Luke Drozd’s Art You Will Soon
I’m indebted to Luke Drozd for supplying some amazing prints for the charity event me and colleagues organised recently. I was particularly excited to receive donations from Luke as I’m a huge fan. Not only is Luke generous he also produces some truly lovely screen prints. Judging by recent updates to his blog & Facebook
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A Quick Trip to Biddulph Grange
This weekend we decided, at the last minute, to take a trip to Biddulph Grange, a garden in Stoke-on-Trent owned by the National Trust. The National Trust have recreated the Victorian-era gardens of James Bateman, who developed the gardens at Biddulph Grange in order to display his collections of plants – many
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