February 3rd, 2012
Rob Ryan Valentine prints
This new print from Rob comes in three versions – girl/boy, 2 boys and 2 girls. £120 unframed. Smashing!
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November 26th, 2010
Online show of new Quentin Blake giclee prints
Here is the current selection from Mr. Blake. Charming and humorous as ever, we get all nostalgic about favourite Roald Dahl books when we see them.
- No room in my head for all those brains, limited edition giclee print, 200 x 190 mm, £ 85.00
- I is not only able to hear music, limited edition giclee print, 210 x 260 mm, £ 90.00
- It was a big bottle, limited edition giclee print, 200 x 190 mm, £ 85.00
- There is enough chocolate in there, limited edition giclee print, 210 x 260 mm, £ 90.00
- 'Charlie' cried Mr. Wonka, limited edition giclee print, 200 x 190 mm, £ 85.00
- Come up and see where you are, limited edition giclee print, 210 x 260 mm, £ 90.00
- I was a scruffy little boy, limited edition giclee print, 200 x 190 mm, £ 85.00
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All of the prints have a certificate of authenticity and are mounted. Give us a ring on 01273 773 776, or pop into the gallery anytime to see them. It’s cold down here on the beach, but bright and sunny!!
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October 30th, 2010
Cool new Adler pots in stock
Cute fox, 270mm tall. £135
Jonathan Adler’s new season pots are looking cute on our shelves. This foxy fox is £135 and the lion (below) is £120.
Salt and pepper sets are £36, cats fish, poodles and elephants in stock.
Call 01273 773776 to purchase, or email for an up to date list of available items.
White lion, 135 mm long, £120
Doggy bookends, £135
Dachsund ornament £85, also available in white
Fish salt & pepper set, £36
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October 22nd, 2010
Sarah Young exhibition running until 21st November!
Sarah Young poster
Our autumn exhibition of prints and posters by Sarah Young opens this Saturday. Preview is on Friday evening (22nd), 6-9pm. Drop in if you’re free.
More images of Sarah’s new work will be posted over the next few days … watch this space!
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August 3rd, 2010
Masking tape from Japan
A favourite of design blogs for a little while, Japanese masking tape hasn’t really been available outside Japan until recently. We aren’t sure, but Castor and Pollux could be the first stockist in Brighton/the South coast …
Each roll of pretty Japanese masking tape is 15 mm (about 1/2″) wide x 15 m (about 50′) long made of japanese washi paper. perfect for decorating packages, gift wrapping and scrapbooks.
We have sets of three, six and ten in gorgeous colours. Much wrapping fun to be had!!
- Set of three, various colours to choose from, £ 8.95
- Boxed set of 10, £ 24.95
July 23rd, 2010
Back in the gallery – Cable and cotton – Cool lights!
string of lights
These lights from Cable & Cotton – a local Hove firm – have been flying out of the shop … they come in lots of colourways and cost £34.95 for a 35 lamp set. The best thing about them is that they look great switched on or off!
July 17th, 2010
Pippa Cunningham prints
Pippa Cunningham is a painter based in Brighton, but she travels for inspiration resulting in very colourful work. Trips abroad to the West Indies, south of France and to the Palio in Italy are where she does her location painting,
She has brought us a few prints with her signature vast blue sea.
Brighton Pier, limited edition giclee print, 735 x 575 mm £ 215
Nice Harbour, France, limited edition giclee print, 750 x 575 mm £ 215
Please pop into the gallery to see them, or call us on 01273 773776.
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July 10th, 2010
Charley Harper essay from Delicious Industries
Ternscape, limited edition giclee print, 465 x 340 mm, £195
Charley Harper
04.08.1922 – 10.06.2007
“I don’t try to put everything in, I try to leave everything out. I never count the feathers in the wings; I just count the wings.”
Charlie Harper was an American Modernist who developed a distinctive style of illustration that he called Minimal Realism. Harper grew up on his family’s farm in the Appalachian foothills where he built “an affinity for nature that would one day find expression in my designs”.
He began studying at the Art Academy of Cincinnati as a realist painter before being drafted, spending three years in Army Intelligence during the Second World War. Harper continued to sketch, however, and in this very different environment learned how to “grasp the important elements of a scene quickly and put them down with minimum detail.”
After his time in the Army, Harper completed his studies and graduated in 1947. He was awarded the Stephen H Wilder Traveling Scholarship, which enabled he and his wife Edie to travel the West and South of America painting and enjoying nature.
On their return Charley became a tutor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati (where he would stay for 20 years) and also began working in a commercial studio. However, he soon found the latter wasn’t an environment for realism and that all they wanted was illustrations of “happy housewives”.
Increasingly frustrated with the limitations of realism he began to experiment with a new style where he replaced perspective with two-dimensional shapes, reduced to only straight lines and curves. The idea was “…to push simplification as far as possible without losing identification”. This new style combined the ability to caricature and simplify.
“I reduced all lines and edges to straights and curves and began to render with mechanical drawing instruments – ruling pen, compass, French curve, T-square, triangle. I saw forms as hard-edged shapes of flat or textured colour with enough lines added to complete identification. I began to include black and white in every full-colour picture (forbidden in realism); spanning the value scale added sparkle and zip, and all colours seem to me richer in the presence of black and white. I didn’t discard depth, but achieved it by such devices as overlapping shapes and colour and size relationships.”
Harper’s use of pure ink whites rather than unprinted paper is one of the reasons why his prints still appear so vibrant.
“Nature subjects, I found, are ideally suited to this interpretation. Birds and fish in particular have built-in functional beauty imposed by their habitats and require only a little distortion of what’s there already, a thinning of lines and a simpler statement of shape. In perching and walking birds, and some insects, there exists a spatial tension because of the heavy body supported by slender legs that I find satisfying.”
In 1948 Ford Publications commissioned Harper to illustrate the recipe section in the December issue of ‘Ford Times’, Ford Motor Company’s travel magazine. This was the start of a successful collaboration that would last until 1982 and the reason that so many of the wonderful prints we know today exist.
His illustrations proved popular with readers, who often requested copies. So in 1952 the illustrations for a wildlife article, ‘Eight Familiar Fish’ were also offered to readers as a series of screen prints for $5 each. The prints were hand-screen printed by Charley and Edie in their basement – Charley created the stencils whilst Edie mixed the inks.
These limited edition prints were so successful that in June 1953 a second set followed concluding a series of articles named ‘Horseless Carriage Adventures’ and depicting national landmarks. Then in November 1954 a series of bird prints were offered which accompanied the article ‘Feeding Station Birds’.
The bird prints became an annual tradition eventually comprising 73 designs. For each November issue Harper would not only illustrate an article about birds and produce the limited edition prints but would also write it. In total, he illustrated over 90 articles and 30 covers for Ford Times.
Throughout the 50′s and 60′s Harper enjoyed commercial success illustrating the popular cook book, ‘Betty Crocker’s Dinner for Two’ and being commissioned by The Golden Press to illustrate ‘The Golden Book of Biology’ and ‘The Animal Kingdom’, all very sought after publications.
Harper found the greatest pleasure in nature illustration and throughout his career designed many posters for non-profit organisations including Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati Nature Center, Hamilton County (Ohio) Park District, the Michigan Audubon Society and the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania.
Other notable works include the design of two ceramic tile murals both in Cincinnati; one for the Federal Building, based on American wildlife and one for the new Convention Center, titled ‘Space Walk’. Also two painted murals in Dearborn; one depicting Michigan wildlife in the Ford General Staff Office building cafeteria, and another on ‘transportation around the world’ in the Ford Rotunda.
July 7th, 2010
New Jonathan Adler pottery in stock
Squirrel candleholder
Just arrived from New York is our new collection of fab pottery from Jonathan Adler.
This cute candleholder with ‘midnight’ glaze costs £95. Also new for this year are poodles, foxes, dachshund bookends and elephant bottle stoppers!
You can see some of our new stock here.
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June 6th, 2010
Rob Ryan book – This is for you
This is for you, by Rob Ryan is back in stock!! It’s £12.99, and we recommend that you nip to the gallery, or phone us very soon if you want a copy, as they always sell out fast! 01273 773776
May 26th, 2010
Nineteen Seventy Three screen prints
Our friends, James and Emma, at 1973 have stocked us with beautifully designed greeting cards for quite sometime now. They have recently worked with some of their artists to scale up designs into screen prints. Belle & Boo, Jon Burgerman, Goodlife and Clementine can now adorn your walls!
They are all 500 x 700 mm and limited to an edition of 100.
- Evie, from Belle & Boo, screen print, £ 105
- Kite, from Belle & Boo, screen print, £ 105
- Rabbit, from Jon Burgerman, screen print, £ 135
- Pirate, from Jon Burgerman, screen print, £ 135
- Elephant, from Clementine, screen print, £ 115
- Lion, from Clementine, screen print, £ 115
- Russian doll, from Goodlife, screen print £ 125
- Robot, from Goodlife, screen print £ 125
- Owl, from Goodlife, screen print £ 125
Please come and visit if you would to see them, but if you are far away, we can do everything over the phone and pop anything in the post. 01273 773776
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May 21st, 2010
Paul Thurlby – new prints in stock
We instantly loved Paul Thurlby’s fresh take on the alphabet when he came to visit, and the parcel of chosen prints arrived today.
Originally from Nottingham, London based Paul has been a full-time illustrator since September 2006 after graduating from University in Buckinghamshire.
He always starts with pencil drawings and Paul holds his pen in a funny way, but it works just fine for him. He has built up an impressive list of commissions including regular contributions to The Guardian, The Big Issue and It’s Nice That.
You can see the pencil mark, fold and graph paper that make up the design for each letter creating an instantly vintage look like old toy packaging.
- wave
- trapeze
- space
- awesome
- quicksand
- yoga
- rabbit
- mountain
- island
- embrace
- dog
- jazz
We only have a few of these giclees, so please get it touch if one tickles your fancy. £45 each including their window mount, and we can post them for £6.
