Capturing the ever-evolving terminology of the LGBT community, London based designer Jacqui Ma created this glossary of terms to shed light on the complexity and importance of language. The designer states “Over the years, many LGBT terms have become redundant through misuse, assumptions and misunderstandings. Other terms are dropped and then reclaimed, so this list is definitely a sign of the times in 2022 and should be used to educate our kids, our allies, and our community”
“Education is the vaccine for violence.” Edward James Olmos
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Here are the terms included on this print:
Typically a non-queer person who supports and advocates for the queer community; an individual within the LGBTQ+ can be an ally for another member that identifies differently than them.
Someone whose capacity for sexual or romantic attraction changes over time. It is an emerging micro-label withinin the asexual (or ace) community, it challenges the idea that we need to have just one consistent feeling about sexual desire.
People who experience little or no romantic attraction. (Asexual people do not always identify as aromantic; aromantic people do not always identify as asexual.)
Asexual is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or a low interest in sexual activity. Some people consider asexuality to be their sexual orientation, and others describe it as an absence of sexual orientation.
Someone who feels a sexual and/or romantic attraction to people of a different gender as well as their own. People who identify as bisexual may be pansexual.
Someone whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. If a person’s sex at birth is said to be male and this person identifies as a man, they would be cisgender. It is a term that describes a person’s gender identity, not their sexual or romantic attractions.
The theatrical act of dressing in gendered clothing and/or adopting gendered behaviours as part of a performance . It does not indicate the performer’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
A sexual orientation in which a person feels sexually attracted to someone only after they've developed a close emotional bond with them. Demisexuality only refers to the type of attraction that person feels, not how often they have sex.
Gender Non-confirming is someone who expresses gender outside traditional norms associated with masculinity or femininity. Not all gender-nonconforming people are transgender, and some transgender people express gender in conventionally masculine or feminine ways.
An identity label sometimes claimed by man-identified people who form their primary romantic and sexual relationships with other man-identified people.
A term used by people whose identity shifts or fluctuates. Sometimes these individuals may identify or express themselves as more masculine on some days, and more feminine on others.
Also known as gray asexuality, gray-a, gray-ace, or grey-ace — is a term to describe people who identify as asexual but don't fit into the main types of asexuality.
A term for someone born with biological sex characteristics that aren’t traditionally associated with male or female bodies. Intersexuality does not refer to sexual orientation or gender identity.
An identity label sometimes claimed by woman-identified people who form their primary romantic and sexual relationships with other woman-identified people. Some nonbinary people also identify with this term.
LGBTQ+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or sometimes questioning). The "plus" represents other sexual identities including pansexual and Two-Spirit. The 'plus' is used to signify all of the gender identities and sexual orientations that are not specifically covered by the other initials.
M.A.A.B
Male assigned at birth. There is also F.A.A.B./U.A.A.B. which stand for female-assigned at birth and unassigned at birth.
Also known as genderqueer is an umbrella term for gender identities that are not solely male or female. It is a person who identifies as neither male nor female and sees themselves outside the gender binary. It does not describe sexual preference.
Someone who is attracted to people of all gender identities or someone who is attracted to a person’s qualities regardless of their gender identity. People of any gender identity can and do identify as pansexual.
Being perceived by others as the gender you are aiming to present as. Usually used to describe if a trans person is able to live convincingly and publicly as the gender they identify as.
Words we use to refer to people’s gender in conversation - for example, ‘he’ or ‘she’. Some people may prefer others to refer to them in gender neutral language and use pronouns such as they/their and ze/zir.
Within the community, "questioning" has come to mean anyone who hasn't yet self-defined their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or some combination of the three. Simply put: they have a feeling they might be different, but are still in a process of exploration.
A multi-faceted word that is used in different ways and means different things to different people. In general a queer person may be attracted to people of many genders. It is a general term referring to all non-heterosexual people.
An umbrella term to describe people whose gender is not the same as, or does not sit comfortably with the sex they were assigned at birth. Sub terms include transgender, transsexual, trans man, trans woman, trans masculine, trans feminine + others.
]]>Affectionately known as the ‘Little Grey Fergie’ the Ferguson TE20 agricultural tractor designed by Harry Ferguson was manufactured from 1946 until 1956. Its unique three-point hitch system controlled by hydraulics quickly made it the international standard for tractor design. Acclaimed as one of the most important engineering developments of the 20th century, the Ferguson System produced major advances in the efficiency of food production. Over half a million Ferguson TE20 tractors were built at the Banner Lane plant in Coventry. Production at this iconic factory ended in December 2002 after 56 years, having manufactured over three million tractors.
Buy one now, limited edition HERE
Ferguson TE20 (Renovation Red)
Ferguson TE20 (Classic Grey)
Medium: Six colour screen print
Edition of 50 (Red)
Edition of 25 (Grey)
Signed and embossed with the Tractor Club stamp
Size: 34 x 50.5 cms
Price £65 each (Unframed)
Harvey Ross Ball an American commercial artist is recognised as the designer of the popular smiley graphic picture, which became an enduring and notable international icon.
One company who had the foresight to turn the Smiley face into a huge business empire was the London based Smiley Company. This simple icon — a yellow circle, two dots, a smile — retained relevancy through 50 years of cultural movements, from free love to raves to the digital revolution. And in the process, it became a family-owned global licensing empire worth more than $500m per year.
The UK club scene was also a major factor in the Smiley face being adopted by the mainstream. In the late eighties The Second Summer of Love began, with the rise of the nightclubs Shoom, Future, Trip and The Haçienda in Manchester.
The DJs from these nights were inspired to start there own events after holidaying on Ibiza in the summer of 1987. Ibiza was where acid house music first became popular in Europe and the after-hours nature of the club scene emerged.
In the early stages of the Second Summer of Love, the events and parties were often held in empty warehouses across the UK and were essentially illegal.
Flyers around towns and cities advertised events and information travelled by word of mouth between clubbers. Increasingly huge parties started to be put on around the M25 orbital of London by promoters including Genesis, Sunrise and Biology. In London, events were put on by Raindance, and at Labrynth/Four Aces.
The symbol of the time became the smiley face after the London crowd picked up the design when it was posted on one of the flyers from the third Shoom party. Revellers would soon become adorned in smiley t-shirts and badges.
The rest is history.
So in homage to the timeless Smiley we’ve produced a print to remind people to keep smiling, keep moving forward and "Keep On Truckin".
If you’d like to brighten up your walls and bring a little sunshine into your life
click on the image below and bag yourself one of our brand new
"Keep On Truckin" screen prints.
This is a one colour, signed edition of 100 on bright yellow paper.
The size is 50 x 70 cm's.
£40 (Free UK postage)
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Until next time
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Over the years many people have claimed to have discovered maps and other clues that led to pirate treasure, or claim that historical maps are actually treasure maps. Spoiler alert, apparently (according to wikipedia) these claims are not supported by scholars, but who cares about scholars. Pirate maps are real ok!
One of the earliest known instances of a document listing buried treasure is the copper scroll, which was recovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls near Qumran in 1952. Believed to have been written between 50 and 100 AD
Here below on this blog post are just a few notable treasure maps that we have found to be historical and inspiring.
Oak Island is a small island covered in oak trees off the coast of Nova Scotia. Legend has it that in 1799 a Daniel McGinnis noticed a depression near some trees as he was looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd. He found booby traps and regular intervals which led him to believe that there was treasure buried in the vicinity. Find out more about this map HERE
Mikey finds the framed map and hands it to Chunk, knowing that his clumsy friend will eventually break the frame, like he does with most things he touches. Once freed from the frame, the rest of the Goonies take a look at it as well. The written text on the map is in Spanish, which Mouth (the brain) is able to translate. Mouth deciphers the various puzzles and riddles to be solved. Here is a replica map and Copper bones key that you can buy on Etsy.
A famous map in literature is Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson's book Treasure Island first published as a book in 1883. The plot is about a boy called Jim and his mother who find a map of an island on which the infamous pirate Captain Flint hid his treasure. They go to find the treasure and so the adventure begins.
Eventually, they find the treasure cache empty. The pirates nearly charge at Silver and Jim, but shots are fired by the ship's command along with Gunn, from ambush. Livesey explains that Gunn had already found the treasure and taken it to his cave.
In 1680, English pirate Bartholomew Sharpe and 300 men crossed the Central American isthmus at Panama, captured a Spanish ship, the Trinity, and used it to raid Spanish vessels up and down the Pacific coast of Central and South America. Their exploits became famous, in large part because they were a remarkably literate band of buccaneers: Five of the men, including Sharpe, kept detailed journals.
The map is from a 1669 Spanish derrotero that historians once thought was the one captured from the Rosario. Its navigation directions and views of harbors as they would appear from out at sea would have been incredibly valuable to sailors at the time. More recent research suggests that this derrotero was actually captured a decade earlier by the famous pirate Henry Morgan. William Hack may have had access to (although it wasn’t his primary source).
This was the first map produced and designed by us at Planet Patrol gallery in 2017. It is a 2 colour screen print and is our very own map of the world. Printed in South London, its taken from an ancient atlas and features beasts from around the world. For example a kangaroo, zebra, monkey and bear. It was printed as an edition of 25 and screen printed in Suffolk. The size of the map is 40cm x 40cm and retails for £50. There are few left. BUY NOW
The Marauder's Map is a magical document that revealed all of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Not only does it show every classroom, every hallway, and every corner of the castle, but it also showed every inch of the grounds, as well as all the secret passages that were hidden within its walls and the location of every person in the grounds, portrayed by a dot. It is also capable of accurately identifying each person, and was not fooled by animagi, Polyjuice Potions, or invisibility cloaks; even the Hogwarts ghosts are on the map.
Fantasy or fiction, pirate treasure maps have had a huge influence on popular culture over the years. From classic literature to 80s films, we all want to believe in hidden treasure, and why not! Who knows you might even find treasure hidden in your own backyard. Our Planet Patrol urban street maps are from 1890 and so are not always accurate but they continue to inspire and connect us to the past.
]]>Although I could go on about pens, erasers, sticky notes, stickers and pencils until the cows come home, this blog post I'm writing for Planet Patrol is exclusively about pencil sharpeners.
This retro inspired pencil sharpener with rotating handle is actually available to buy for £19 from Trouva
A much more economical version of this desk classic than this beautiful metal pencil sharpening machine below by Caran D'Ache. It comes in a few colours including plain gun metal grey and is the perfect extra special gift coming in at £150. You can buy it here at cult pens a specialist stationery store.
One option is the magnetic poster frame. This is a great lightweight solution which only requires something like a nail or a lightweight hook to attach it to the wall. The style is also quite vintage and simple and of course this is an inexpensive option. Below we have our Hackney portrait print shown in a magnetic poster frame by Iamfy which is a breezy £8.
Only us this method on walls of people you hate. Try to avoid using this at all costs. Not only does it ruin the artwork but it also ruins your walls. The sticky residue never ever comes off despite how many coats of paint you put on, its futile. This image below is an art piece by copy write Ash Gotti called "wall of shame" which explores the ideas that our Heros always let us down... but blu tak will never be removed. You can see other images HERE
This is more of a left field method which I think could be surprisingly successful. However this article gives a step by step guide on how to do it. This is especially good for pieces that might be the same size that you want to move around the house and refresh your walls. I think it would work well with kids drawings as shown in the article on wikihow here.
This is also an interesting idea for attaching posters and artworks to walls. The author of this blog post says "I’ve tested the tape on all of my posters, and after almost a month none of them have fallen off. I’ve actually repositioned a few of the posters, and it was effortlessly easy".
On the down side, you need to incorporate the washi tape into the design of the wall, this method works well for walls that have a messier, or more 'scrap book' feel. Like on the image below, but it can look a bit messy if you are going for a minimalist look. The washi tape method for attaching posters to walls works better if the poster itself is on lightweight paper.
These are the obvious solution for hanging lightweight artwork, but obviously works only if it is framed. You can get them easily at any hardware or DIY store and they are easy to install you just need a hammer (or a shoe). The up side to these is that they are also relatively easy to remove and can hold a decent weight.
A standard and classic stationery item that you can find anywhere is the binder clip or snap back clip. They come in many different sizes to suit the scale of your artwork and are really easy to install. Once you clip the clip to the artwork or poster you just need to use a simple small nail to attach it to the wall. This method gives a clean and contemporary look to the interior without detracting too much from the artwork.
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This was quickly followed by Eye Ball cards which were used to identify CB Radio (Citizens Band) users on meet-ups, though the only meet-ups I would have were generally confined to the playground area where I would then swap cards with other likeminded CB Radio obsessed nerds. If there happened to be a card I was desperate to own I would sometimes venture into the murky world of swapping hard to come by tuck-shop contraband such as Wham Bars and Sherbet Dip Dabs. It was fun, but short lived.
In 1977 everything changed when the movie Star Wars hit the screens and the Kenner Toy Company’s action figure range became available. This is when my collecting became less of a hobby and more of an obsession! Weekend trips to the toy store in Ipswich would fill me with uncontrollable excitement as I searched desperately for figures to add to my collection. It got to the point where mere toys were not enough and my collection quickly expanded to homewares in the form of Star Wars duvet covers, wallpaper and mugs. I eventually tired of collecting Star Wars stuff and was introduced to something more befitting my age, Hip Hop!
This is when things really exploded on the collecting front as my new obsession was to now become a DJ and as everyone knows a DJ is only as good as his record collection.
Twenty five years later after a somewhat patchy career as a club DJ, my collection now lurks in a wooden crate within a huge warehouse in a scene reminiscent to the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Star Wars Trading Cards as seen on Ebay.
Someones Eraser collection as seen on Pinterest.
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Well, It's another sweltering Monday lunchtime here in Hackney as I sit down with my first coffee of the day listening to the tranquil sounds of police sirens dance off a light easterly breeze. I can feel the caffeine now flowing through my veins in the hope that it will access scraps of information from the temporal lobe area of my drug-addled barnacle clad brain and in doing so unfumble (new word alert!) five hundred words that I will then arrange into some vaguely coherent blog post.
One thing that is worth mentioning whilst I delve into the grey matter for inspiration is that this weekend saw the reopening of Broadway Market in Hackney. Although there was very little fanfare it felt good to be back, sipping coffee with my market pals and chatting to customers. If you find yourself in or around Hackney on a Saturday it's definitely worth a look and as a small independent business, your support is always very welcome.
Here are a few artists that have caught my eye recently.
Quentin Monge grew up on a beach in the south of France, where he started out drawing simple silhouettes in the sand. After several years abroad he decided to go back to his hometown. He now lives and works in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez.
He has worked as an illustrator since 2015 with hundreds of clients.
Quentin keeps pushing the boundaries of his creative journey by exploring new practices. Either through his paintings, sculptures or various collaborations.
His online store recently opened and he has a great selection of fine art prints for sale, some of which I have my eye on.
Kyler Martz is a Seattle based tattooer and illustrator whose work has gone way beyond just tattoo flash sheets. He regularly releases screen printed editions of his work as well as interactive wooden sculptures such as his diving girls and whaleboats.
I used to sell a selection of Kyler's work a few years back and I'm now kind of wishing I'd kept it all! C'est la vie Monsieur Mole.
I don't know much about Sean Thornhill other than this made me laugh when I came across it on Instagram last week. You can pick up the FedUp print via his Etsy shop for £10 along with some other lovely Mid-Century style prints.
Studio News
After the success of our first Hackney Heart edition, I decided to add another colour option in the form of Powder Pink. This is available as a three colour hand-pulled screen print and is a small edition of only 25.
For every print sold, we will donate £10 to www.hackney.foodbank.org.uk
Hackney foodbank provides three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are most at risk. They help prevent crime, housing loss, family breakdown and mental health problems.
So, after searching my brain for blogspiration (Yes, another new word!) I'm happy to report that I could find absolutely nothing of interest. But in doing so I unexpectedly managed to hit my five hundred word blog quota through writing down pure unadulterated trumpery (my new favourite word).
If you fancy getting social here's my Instagram.
Until next time
Stay safe
Mole
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Hello lovely people. It's been a long time coming but after weeks of rubbing our Corona covered paws in anticipation the day is nearly upon us and no I'm not referring to the second coming of Christ or an air-bridge to Babylon although that would be quite an eye-opener. I am of course talking about the reopening of our nations universally loved public houses. A place to meet up with friends and loved ones or just another chance to stalk that tinder date that blew you out before lockdown was imposed. Red-faced Brexiteers will be charging their glasses and talking incoherently about how surviving lockdown was just like the good old days. The Yute will be drinking to excess and quite rightly so as most of them are now either out of work or still on furlough. The one thing that we Brits should be proud of apart from the invention of Yorkshire Puddings is that we can always be relied upon to get shit faced at just a minutes notice. Long live 'Les Rosbefs'.
As I Inch ever closer towards being nominated for a Vuelio blog award (I can almost touch it) I feel It might be the time to raise my game a little so with that in mind I've decided to introduce a brand new section called Word-Up which is basically words that I've never heard before or don't know the meaning of. So without further delay, this month's Word-Up word is...Refulgent! which means Shining Brightly.
I always promised that my blog posts would be informative.
Ok, let's get back to what I actually do other than write the odd blog post and stare at gas towers. This week's Screenprint is a brand new DALSTON edition and before you start banging on about jumping on the bandwagon, this print has been in the making for some time it's only really now that I've had a chance to get around to printing it, and yes it happens to have coincided with Pride, which is a really, really, good thing! So If you're looking for a splash of colour to brighten up the pad or just love Dalston (my old stomping ground) and the home of Ridley Road Market, Rio Cinema, and the one and only Dalston Super Store then click on the link below and go grab one of our lovely limited edition screenprints. I could think of worse things to spend your money on.
Maybe?
Until next month.
Stay safe and don't get too lashed (drunk)
as they used to say in my home town of Suffolk.
Mole
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I've found myself becoming obsessive over US news broadcasts, hungry for any updates and wondering how it must feel to be a marginalised black person in the US. How could I possibly know or understand what it must feel like? I'm a white male living in London, and I'm all too aware of the privilege that brings me which in itself is fucked! I guess the best thing I can do right now is to show support whether it's through words or action.
As sad and upsetting as the last few days have been surely these past events will push the American people to take a long hard look at themselves and in turn, encourage change? Serious and essential change!
The above image was created by one of my favourite Brooklyn based artists Stephen Powers and is available to download as a free pdf from here.
History#1 by Laura Sills.
I came across this incredible image whilst scrolling through Instagram this morning and felt that I just had to share it. All proceeds from any print sold on Laura's site up until the end of June will go directly to the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery.
I have created a small Hackney Map edition in response to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic. It is to celebrate the amazing work carried out not only by front-line NHS workers but also small charities such as Foodbanks.
]]>Last month I went into the studio and decided to create a small Hackney Map- edition in response to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic. Because of the amazing work carried out not only by front-line NHS workers but also small charities such as Foodbanks I felt it necessary to create a limited edition screenprint whereby £10 from each sale would go directly to benefiting the people most in need.
Foodbanks were set up so that people who are struggling financially or have been made redundant are able to receive a box containing essential food supplies. Foodbanks help prevent crime, housing loss, family breakdown and mental health problems.
If you'd like to support my local Foodbank whilst at the same time also supporting little old me then please feel free to make a purchase of the new Magenta Hackney Heart screenprint. Hackney Heart
Keep fighting the good fight!
Big Love
Mole
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Friends, family, customers and lovers!
Whilst my evening ritual of consuming my own body weight in chocolate continues unabated and packs of rabid animals reclaim the streets of London as their own It got me thinking. Why is it ok for countries like Spain to have 3-hour boozy lunches followed by a gentle snooze and not us?
I mean let's face it if ever there was a time to introduce siestas into the nations psyche surely it's now. Food for thought, yes?
So anyway, as I put my meandering, non-sensical brain farts to one side I'd like to point you in the direction of some rather lovely art prints that I've recently had my eye on and feel warrants a minute or two of your time.
From screen prints and linocuts to Risographs and prints on floorboards, we've got you covered.
Writing blog posts isn't just about shameless attempts at promoting your own brand or flogging your latest product, sometimes you need to share the love!
Floorboard 2
Floorboard 1
A collaboration between Anthony Burrill and Harvey Lloyd Screens using some of the graphics that A.B. designed for us to screen print our studio floor.
Size A5 (148 x 210) printed 1 colour on both sides of 11mm Birch Faced Plywood. Purchased individually or as a set of three.
Signed on the reverse by Anthony Burrill.
https://harvey-lloyd-screens.myshopify.com/collections/all
Title: Bouches du Rhône
Title: Brittany
Tom Haugomat, born and raised in Paris, studied at the prestigious Parisian school of the visual arts, Gobelins.
Tom is an illustrator and director based in Paris, France and is really,
really fucking good at what he does.
Artist: Tom Haugomat
Title: Bouches du Rhône / Brittany
Size: 29 x 42 cm
Paper type: Munken Print White Paper 150g
Medium: Risograph by Kiblind Atelier
Price: €16
https://www.kiblind-store.com/
Working from her studio in Cyprus, Hey Sosi has been the side project of visual artist Sofia Schizas since 2009.
Artist: Sofia Schizas aka Hey Sosi
Title: Portrait (Fourth edition)
Size: A5 size (210mm x 148mm)
Edition: 220 print sets
Signed and numbered.
Paper Type: Fabriano Accademia 120gs
Medium: Risograph set of 4
Price €40
https://www.heysosi.com/products
Artist: The Print Project
Title: S is for Safe
Size: 50 x 70 cm's
Paper Type: 170gsm Munken Lynx
Medium: Linocut
Edition: 15
Signed and numbered.
https://theprintproject.co.uk/
Chris is an illustrator and printmaker.
He creates fine-art limited-edition silkscreen prints at his home studio in Northeast LA depicting a range of Southern California-inspired imagery, from botanical prints to architecture
Artist: Chris Turnham
Title: Garcia House
Size: 24 x 18"
Paper Type: BFK Rives off-white paper
Medium: Screenprint
Edition: 60
Signed and numbered.
https://christurnham.com/
Bethnal Green the latest in our London map series is a four colour
screenprint consisting of pale blue, royal blue, pale pink and magenta.
All Planet Patrol prints are hand-printed in our studio in South London in small batches.
Artist: Planet Patrol Studio
Title: Bethnal Green
Size: 50 x 70 cm's
Paper Type: Canaletto Velino
Medium: Four colour screenprint
Edition: Six
Signed and numbered.
https://planetpatrol.co.uk/
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I present to you the very first Planet Patrol blog post which according to the experts is something I need to become fully accomplished at If I wish to put food on the table and socks on my feet.
So as I sit here desperately trying to cram in my ten keywords of choice in the vain hope that Google will latch onto my collection of bombastic words and propel me to pole position, I'm wondering what topics might be of interest to my lovely customers? Would you like to know how much award-winning chocolate I consume on a daily basis or my morning ritual of watching Trumps daily car-crash press briefings? Maybe you'd like to know about the process behind screen printing? This will all be revealed over the coming months as I delve deeper into the rabbit hole known as the blogosphere.
Whatever my chosen topics might be I'll try my damndest to make it as engaging, fun, fact-packed and of course as pointless as possible. So first up and something that's not in the slightest bit pointless is the launch of my brand spanking new website. Maybe once you've finished binge-watching series 3 of Ozark and thrown in the towel on your fifth attempt at making sourdough you'd be kind enough to take a quick glance and if you have any suggestions on how I might be able to improve or enhance the Planet Patrol online experience please drop me an email. I'm all ears.
Sourdough anyone?
As some of you may already know I spend a great deal of my time in the studio which is located on the banks of the River Thames just down from the famous Thames Barrier which was built in 1982 at a cost of £534 million, "like I said, fact-packed". This is the place where I'm able to experiment with colours and think about new editions whether it's the next London map or the latest Tractor Club edition (coming soon). When being surrounded by ink, squeegees, palette knives, spatulas and paper I'm as happy as a pig in muck! Though when it actually comes to creating a new print from scratch there's a lot more to it than just pulling ink through a screen and hoping for the best so with that in mind, it makes sense that the next few posts should delve a little deeper into the process that goes into creating a screen print.
In the meantime here's a picture of our latest print Columbia Road which is known for its Sunday flower market and array of beautiful shops. If you've yet to experience it then I suggest once the market has reopened and people have stopped distancing themselves by 2 metres you go and treat yourself to some flowers and maybe a nice print from one of our lovely stockists East End Prints.
One last thing before I close the laptop and head off to Sainsbury's to purchase my weekly lockdown essentials of bread, choc and coffee. I just want to say a huge thank you to our incredible NHS and all the staff who are working tirelessly to keep us all safe and well. Please keep clapping and showing your appreciation for these incredibly selfless people! You're all amazing X
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