Totterdown Arts Trail - this weekend in Bristol

Looking forward to Totterdown Arts Trail this weekend - I am going to be at Hawthorne Street BS4 if you are in Bristol and want to pop in - a house filled with ceramics, printmaking, fabric, mice, fishes, penguins, bridges, bears and tapirs!  Yay.

Open Friday evening and all day Saturday and Sunday 15th/16th/17th November 2019.

Night Dancing lino print on Folksy

Happy to spot my 'Night Dancing' lino print on Folksy's Favourites list at the moment.  I love the idea  of pets getting up to things as we sleep (and we all know that they do!) and lets hope it is just a bit of harmless dancing...
It is fun printing this one too as I so rarely use blocks of tone in my lino prints, so a good dramatic area of black is good to see when you peel back the paper from the block.

Check out what else is on the Folksy list here (and take a look quickly if you want to see my kitties there as who knows when the Folksy team will find some new favourites!)---> FOLKSY FAVOURITES

So good to be printing on a sunshine day - and it makes the gold ink on these little Bristol notebooks look really fab too!  Having a busy week stocking up for art trails, print fairs and topping up stock at some of my lovely galleries...

Insect lino prints...

A fun day printing lots of little insect prints :)  Are you feeling itchy?

Monkeypuzzle linoprint

I have been busy carving out zig-zags which is exactly my idea of fun....it has resulted in this rather shiny golden monkey puzzle tree which you can find living just here on Etsy

Chippity-chip

My lino cutting fingers are getting blisters - I'm having a phase....just cutting until there is a big pile of printing to be done, and then a whole day filled with wonder and disappointment as things turn out better and worse than expected....

....and then I can lie on the sofa and rest until Christmas (ha!)...while my little elves wrap it all up for me and deliver lino prints to galleries and post office counters...

...I may have spent a little too long communing with the lino blocks recently.