Severn Magazine Feature

Some very flattering comments about me in Severn Magazine, January issue. A great new magazine for Shrewsbury.

On the Sunny Side of the Street

Turquoise-Orange

Multi

Black-cream

Greys

Blue-red

Blues

Life can be so sweet...on the sunny side of the street...in Shrewsbury. 


I made this drawing to celebrate my home town. I have lived here for twenty years now and come to love the meandering streets and shuts of the old town centre that lies within a loop of the River Severn. The street names are idiosyncratic and evocative of a long history. All the buildings are very varied and I have mixed them up which is the way it feels when you wander around the town. I've had fun trying out the drawing in different colours. Soon to be available online.

New Stamps

From geology to the present day

I spent a few happy days before Christmas making stamps for Shrewsbury Museum. It's such fun to make physical objects from scratch. My good friend Jean of Crafty Individuals kindly made the rubber sheets for us and we encountered a steep learning curve actually making them up, never having done this before! The designs are taken from my illustrations for the new Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery at present being constructed in the old Music Hall.  The new Museum is so exciting, incorporating as it does, so many ancient, beautiful and intriguing buildings. My illustrations represent the collections, also endlessly fascinating. They are designed to be used as icons on products, doors and banners. Here is one of the first, and tiniest, uses!

Winter Open Studio

The tiny shop

some original watercolours

Much Wenlock mugs

the penny farthing race

Much Wenlock prints

the running race

My open studio on Saturday was great fun and a fab day! Thanks to everyone who came along. We all felt very Christmassy and jolly! We had lovely mulled wine making the house smell gorgeous, an old fashioned Christmas tree and mince pies of course. Here are a few pics of the studio with the tiny shop I set up. It was such fun being a shopkeeper for a day and nice to help people out with their gifts. We also raised a nice big sum to send off to Macmillan Cancer Support which includes a percentage of takings and donations.

Winter Open Studio

Open Studio

Stamping tags to send out with my Open Studio invitations. What fun to have an excuse for making something.

Christmas apron and tea towel

Enchanted Forest designs for Ulster Weavers