Exhibition - Artist of the month

Artist of the month

So YAY!  My first solo exhibition.  I'm pretty proud of it all.   The cafe where I used to work has been having an 'Artist of the Month' feature since about September last year.  It was a huge hit and success with artists and locals a like!  It's a great feature of the cafe now, a new artist, or group of artists, every month.  Works from all disciplines are welcome, from watercolours and oils to printmaking and photographs.  

So I have March all for myself!  After enjoying all of the previous work that has been up, I'm excited that my turn has come around.  I managed to get a bit of branding together for myself with some bright stickers and my globe illustration so everything tied together nicely.  I have a range of illustrations available.  From silkscreen and drypoint prints to watercolour illustrations, digital prints and books to pocket mirrors and magnets - there is something for every budget!

The space in the cafe is ideal for displaying artwork.  As you can see its a gorgeous light space, with a whole wall of windows, a roof that lets in even more light and a lovely long wall for all the work!  My work varies quite a bit, but in between wall lights I was able to group pieces together in sections, as it were, and it's worked so well.

There were drinks and nibbles and tea and cake available.  Lovely cupcakes on vintage tiered cake stands were scattered about on the tables along with information flyers and table talkers.  I invested in a couple of stands to display my prints and silkscreen books on.  Being the busy bee that i am, I painted a special 'Rowan flower' piece in watercolour for the exhibition which along with the 'Love Heart' design from the sweetie range, I had put on to pocket mirrors.  These were a huge success and will soon also be available in my Etsy shop for those of you who are not so local and can't make it to the exhibition.

I had a lovely preview evening, thank you to all who came!  The cafe is just so gorgeous when it gets dark.  There are fairy lights on the outside, and those, along with cute table lights and soft wall lighting...it's just a bit magical.

Cactus paintings

These lovely cactus paintings are available to buy at Seasons Cafe @ Rowan Garden Centre.  Or if you're after a different plant/flower then please do get in touch and we can talk 'garden illustration'!

Currently they are brighting up the walls at the cafe but I have a few more up my sleeve so don't worry about blank walls.

Thank you for looking.

Floral Chair Series

These chairs are inspired by the new Cafe I've helped open with Seasons.  It's Seasons cafe @ Rowan, Rowan is a lovely Garden Centre which you can find @ www.rowangardencentre.co.uk/  We had to re-upholster most of the chairs as although saved from a pub which was refurbishing, needed a fair amount of work on them, and they turned out pretty well to the three of us that worked on them having never upholstered before!  All the chairs are different, theres no more than 4 of the same, which adds to the quirky feel of the Cafe.  The fabric was such a find!  I sent Andrea off with instructions to find a fabric that possibly matched our new logo (which I designed) and low and behold she found one spot on, the right flower and the right colours.  These watercolours of the chairs will be up on the wall, giving it a more friendly feel for our customers.