GROW VEG SOUP

This is another charity shop find and the pick of my daughter Belle's bookshelf. It's written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert. Her bold, richly coloured paper cut style illustrations show us how to make vegetable soup from scratch including the tools we need to grow the veg to eating the best ever soup all up!

QUARTZ CUSHION

It is still to be made but this new cushion design features a forthcoming series of prints titled Quartz. Each image will be a complex overlay of two colour groups and there will hopefully be colour variants to pick from.

NEW ROOST

Nicola Eslick recently launched Starling Store selling all number of attractive and well designed products and art and my pick was this tasty table lamp designed in France. I've been asked to provide the store with a selection of prints

FULL SWEDISH

I recently tripped to Stockholm, Sweden, the city of design, elk burgers, capital of Scandinavia and tiny, expensive horse folk art fridge magnets. As well as being expensive the place was dripping in visual overcool, colour and pattern. If you want details of the above images I can do that.

PACK OF WOOLF

These are three of five, one-off, prototype cushion covers created during the process to design my final Woolf cushion. They, like the final design, are all made from 100% lambs wool, made in the Shetland Isles. They feature the Woolf portrait in various formats. All five of the covers are functionable and are now available at my online shop.

YOU CAN COME TO!

'The Zoo' is the latest charity shop find for my daughter Belle's library. This Ladybird 'Learning to Read' book was published in 1960 and features illustrations by Barry Driscoll. "The sentences and the pictures are skilfully matched so that many beginners can work out for themselves what the words say".

MOTIF MAG

I was in the print studio this month and found on the shelves of the office library a collection of hard backed and bound issues of MOTIF Magazine.

each issue holds beautifully illustrated articles about subjects such as painting, sculpture and art education. These visual feasts spanned 13 issues from 1958 to 1967. I managed to take the odd snap while waiting to pay for my materials.

Creature comforts

Hug a bear or curl up to a fox...I've added two new cushion designs to my range. Above is 'Gold Bear, Silver Bear' and 'Summer Fox, Winter Fox'. They are screen printed in two colours onto bleached, high quality cotton drill. Both designs are double sided so you can turn it to match your colour scheme or mood. They are available now at my online shop.

PICK ME UP next week

It's the countdown to next weeks glorious graphic festival. Unlimited Collective will be taking part and showcasing a delicious portfolio of printed graphic gifts at affordable prices including a selection from myself at Pick Me Up, Somerset House, London 18-28 April.

British Printmakers exhibition

Twenty Twenty Gallery in Much Wenlock, Shropshire will be holding an exhibition to celebrate British Printmakers. A selection of my framed limited edition work, including new designs, will be available. A Private View kicks off proceeding on Friday April 26th and the exhibition runs until June 1st.