Why so blue? Article Magazine interview with illustrator Sarah Abbott

I recently interviewed [personal favourite] fellow Sheffield based illustrator Sarah Abbott check it here! on the Article Mag website

Seeing the trees for the wood - peg board animals & condiments / silver birch shelving

We Are Click have been working on their handsome new website to showcase their excellent late work as Industrial Designers.

The silver birch they felled now stands in the gallery as a shelving system

Included are some cracking photographs of our transformation of Site Canteen back in March (see post).

Here are the wooden pieces they carefully cut in order for my Frieze to be realised on the gallery canteen wall, and the frantic painting that took place on the launch date, I literally painted my heart out for 24 hours! Also see the Site Gallery website for further information.

Cycling in the big city and a pretty Christmas box

Again I stumbled across the lovely LOOK MUM NO HANDS cafe on London's Old Street

www.lookmumnohands.com

I spotted this sign being painted last year and posted a photograph (click here), largely in envy of the task: if only sign painting by hand was still a vocation! They have serve coffee and beer, show movies, and even have on site bike mechanics, so it's a one stop shop for cycle enthusiasts. Sheffield needs this!

  

In other news, I have also stored up these photographs of an Christmas Advent Box made for my sister - hand-painted and collaged, containing an assortment of treats from dried fruits to hot chocolate.

Final inappropriate festive post - I was determined to try my hand at old school lino printing to mass produce my Christmas cards last year, but without losing a sense of receiving something personal. So became this robin print. I'd like to layer colours in future - practice makes perfect.