roundup!

Here's a few images from the recent Leeds Print Festival that I exhibited at, its a new event in Leeds, held at Leeds Gallery. The day was such a success I'm sure it'll happen again. There was a good variety of work on display across a range of print making disciplines. I loved the old Adana letterpress machine that The Print Project had brought with them to demonstrate. Very nice.

I'm in the middle of a number of projects at the moment, above is Collections zine issue 2 in progress. I've just printed the first batch of this zine, it'll be available very soon. The focus is my collection of kitsch dog ornaments...

On Saturday just passed I taught a drawing and illustration workshop at the Bowery arts centre in Leeds. I have more workshops coming up there in the next few months, check out the Bowery website for details.

Finally, here's a link to a top notch Leeds based design blog who just interviewed me: Jackie Magpie

More soon!

ink + Paper anthology

At the end of 2011 I contributed to the first issue of a new comic anthology named ink + Paper. Its a super little book containing short stories, comic strips, recipes and more. My pages are titled 'a month in the life of a thrift addict' and focus on treasure I collected at car boot sales and second hand shops in the space of a month. Other contributors include Lizz Lunney, Hugh 'Shug' Raine, and talented creator of the book David O' Connell. Definitely worth a read! Available to buy here

long time no see

Its been a bit quiet on the Memo front for a while now, sorry about that. I had a hectic December selling my work at a number of fairs around the UK, reprinting stock and thinking up new directions to take my work in 2012. Also decided to take a break for a couple of weeks to switch my brain off and get those new ideas rolling!

First new product completed... a new Valentines design, 'Float my Boat' is now available in my etsy shop. A nice way to tell someone you are Keen.

I'll be back with another update very soon. For now here's a link to Leeds Print Festival at which I will be exhibiting my current range of prints, cards and zines this coming Saturday 28th January. Hope to see you there!

Blue Ship

Introducing a second edition of my Blue Ship screen print. Its an edition of 35, hand printed onto recycled card. Available in my etsy shop now.

This coming weekend I will be taking part in the Headingley Arts Trail. Lots of local houses and shops will be opening up to the public to showcase work by around 80 local artists. For more info and a map of the trail visit the Bowery Arts website

I also have a number of Christmas craft fairs and events coming up in the next few weeks, details of those are listed on the right hand side of my blog...

Dead Good exhibition

Last week I took part in an exhibition in Leeds called 'Dead Good'. It happened on Halloween and had a theme loosely linked to ideas of death and mortality. Organised by Matt Saunders the show was held at Test Space Leeds and featured work by lots of great illustrators and artists.

I screen printed a limited edition poster for the show entitled 'Positive Thinking', now available to buy in my etsy shop

festive canines

Introducing my Christmas card design for 2011. It features my recently rescued greyhound Eli. Screen printed by hand onto 100% recycled card.

The blue/grey colour way is a limited edition of 100 cards, all proceeds of which will go to Tia Greyhound Rescue, where Eli came from. I thought it'd be a nice idea to raise a bit of money to help give the hounds that haven't yet been rescued a nice Christmas dinner. (The red/brown colour way will be helping to raise money for my Christmas dinner!)

Both are available now from my etsy shop

snap snap

Here's a couple of photos from the recent Leeds Alternative Comics Fair 3, featuring Hugh Shug Raine who's stall was next to mine. (I am not in pain as the first photo may suggest, just never ready to have my photo taken!)

Followed by some of the slide film I just had cross processed from my America trip, I really miss Portland...