Ode To An Old Desk. This Was A Pretty Good Space, Even Though There Was Usually So Much Crap Around That

season's greetings

december! where did you go? this month ended up being busy in the best way possible: a successful craft fair at the start of the month, an exciting & large scale opportunity to plan for, little adventures & seeing friends in edinburgh, dundee & london plus, of course, getting ready to hang with my family over christmas & tie up a bunch of loose ends before the new year hits.

have a lovely holiday season, whatever, wherever & however you celebrate.

new ways of living (iii)

third & final piece from 'new ways of living' for the looking for trouble exhibition in nottingham.

cabin is a triptych, featuring a hint of a narrative if you read from left to right (but you can read it however you want). pretty much all i could think whilst creating this was how much i'd like to be in this drawing. the cabin may be structurally unsound, but there's an incredible view.

pretty happy to be back doing ceramics again. i finally picked up some of the things i made at the start of the year, & found out that i accidentally made some stacking pots.

hands up if you like free stuff! it's been three whole years since i've had a giveaway, so i thought i'd have a shot at doing one on this here blog. to be in with a chance of winning the little package of goods above (a giclée print, lino print & badge), just leave a comment on this post saying hello plus a way for me to get in touch (twitter/email etc) if you win. i know tumblr as a rule is pretty into its re-blogging & likes, but i miss the good ol' days when blogs were for commenting on (y'know, like in 2010) . i'll pick a winner at random on sun 6 october. good luck! EDIT: giveaway closed! thanks for all the entries. will be in touch with the winner soon.

new cards in the shop

got a whole bunch of new cards in the shop today. subjects covered include birthdays, babies & bikes. it's been a while since i've made any cards but i wanted to illustrate a range of occasions with more than just the usual text approach i take. i'm pretty happy with how they turned out & hope you like them too.

eat your greens. & reds. & oranges. & purples. etc.

animals that i did not meet #2

animals that i did not meet #1

i'd wanted to turn my circle pattern into a notebook for a couple of months & i finally finished them. they turned out exactly as i'd hoped. it's nice when that happens.

last weekend kathryn & i went to the botanic gardens to draw. we ended up spending our time inspecting the underside of ferns for seed pods & harassing the poor mimosa pudica instead. after warming up with a coffee & wandering in some late afternoon sunshine however, i did a sketch which turned into the above. my favourite part of the gardens is house 6 - the palm house - which is the tallest space within the glasshouses. it's quite easy to forget you're in the middle of glasgow when you're under a dense canopy of enormous tropical leaves.