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  • The amazing typography maps of Ursula Hitz
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New Pop-Up books by Chisato Tamabayashi

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We've just received three new amazing pop up books by artist Chisato Tamabayashi. 

Transmission - bees and flowers
Plunge - discover the deep sea
Airborne - an aerial adventure

They are all beutifully handmade making - great collectors items!

Click to see Chisato's work

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Graham Carter at The Old Sweet Shop

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We're happy to anounce that we now have Graham Carter's screenprints on sale online and in the gallery.

Click to see Graham's work on our online shop.

'Graham Carter’s joyful prints reference many of the most loved images in modern culture: the characters from Star Wars or the eerie but manageable magic of Spirited Away. The artistic sensibilities stop these nostalgic influences from turning into twee: the gorgeously rendered digital art glows with vibrant colours' in Amelia's Magazine

Read full interview with Graham Carter in Amelia's Magazine

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Patrick Edgeley retro inspired prints

We just received five new screen prints by Patrick Edgeley.
Click to see his work.

Patrick Edgeley started out his life as a graphic designer but has turned his talents to screen printing in the last few years. Patrick is based on the south coast of England in Brighton & Hove.

He loves to bring type and vibrant colours into his work, using both hand drawn and real images collaged together.

Bottle-tops

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The work of Victor Stuart Graham

We've just received the work of Victor Stuart Graham.

Victor trained as a graphic designer. He followed this with an MA at the Royal College in Textiles. Since then his work has taken many diverse forms, from teaching to painting municipal railings. Although he still knits, he has successfully reduced his textile output to ties and is now principally known for driftwood boats.

He uses soft worn woods lightly decorated in subtle reds, blues and greens to create the effects of trawlers and little pleasure boats. They are not remotely naturalistic, but often carry tiny details - metal anchors and portholes, messages coded in seafaring flags. Many of the boats are wall mounted, but some of them are free standing. In addition, he also makes rows of cottages. Like something from the north Cornish coast, they rest in craggy lines, nestling into larger pieces of wood.

His work is entirely dictated by his materials, a challenge which he enjoys.

Victor Stuart GrahamClick to see more of Victor Stuart Graham's work

 

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A little visitor

Felix our youngest art lover dropped by!

Felix


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Dee Beale's new robin prints

One of our best selling artists Dee Beale new work just in! Two beautiful gocco prints: 'Robin' and 'Rose Hip Robins'. At £25 each these limited edition prints will fly off in no time! Get your now.

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The amazing typography maps of Ursula Hitz

We love the new typography city maps of Ursula Hitz!

Check them out!

 

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James Brown new animal prints

We're delighted with the new 9 limited edition animal by James Brown.

Check them out! Only £45!

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New exclusive prints by Jane Gregory

Jane Gregory collects and records botanical specimens using a flatbed scanner and Photoshop. In a hi-tech process that echoes Victorian activities such as flower pressing and botanical illustration she creates images of flowers, buds and whole plants. The specimens, suspended on their black grounds possess unnaturally vivid colour schemes and a strange constructed air. There is a suggestion they may be part of a larger catalogue of artificially improved flora being assembled with a healthy disregard for botanical accuracy.

See her latest work here.

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Illustrator Andy Smith at The Old Sweet Shop gallery

The quirky screenprints of illustrator Andy Smith are now on sale at The Old Sweet Shop gallery. Andy was born and raised in Norfolk. He studied in Brighton before doing an MA in illustration at the Royal College of Art.

He uses illustration and typography to create images that have humour, energy and optimism and all are executed with a handmade, hand-printed, tactile feel. Quirky characters find themselves in absurd situations, often with a large piece of lettering nearby.

When not producing commercial work for clients Andy can be found in the studio screen printing books and posters about Fatty, the Target People and the Hot Dog.

He has exhibited in the UK, USA, France and Australia. He lives and works by the sea in Hastings, East Sussex. His favourite colour is blue.

Have a look at his work here.

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