All Things Considered

Julia McKenzie
Posted by Simon Lewin

Artist Julia McKenzie has an open studio event in south east London on Saturday 11th September 2010.

This new screenprint, 'China Sea', will be one of the works on show.

For full details visit Julia's Facebook and Tumblr pages.

Posted by Simon Lewin on August 31st, 2010

Frank Kiely
Posted by Simon Lewin

"London", an exhibition of paintings and prints by Frank Kiely, is now open at the Bankside Gallery and runs until 5th September.

Between 6-8pm on Thursday 2nd September you can join Frank at the gallery for a 'Meet The Artist' event and throughout the exhibition children visiting can enjoy Frank's map of the exhibition and enter a draw to win one of his prints and a goodie bag.

Open daily from 11am - 6pm, admission is free. The Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH. See The Bankside Gallery website for more details.

Posted by Simon Lewin on August 29th, 2010

One for Sorrow
Posted by Simon Lewin

Richard Ardagh has been in touch about another letterpress print produced with Graham Bignell of New North Press.

"It's another in the nursery rhyme series Graham and I have been producing, referring to the superstitions associated with seeing magpies. This poster has been set in wooden and metal type, inked and printed by hand in an edition of 150"

The print is available from the New North Press.

Posted by Simon Lewin on August 25th, 2010

Southwold town sign
Posted by Simon Lewin

Our friend Brian Webb of Webb & Webb has just designed a new sign for this Suffolk coastal town.

The sign is a ‘slice through the sea making a plinth for the town name, stacked on the waves. People walking over the bridge will see the golden-eyed fish in the waves’, Brian told the Eastern Daily Press.

Find out more about the work of Webb & Webb.

Posted by Simon Lewin on August 12th, 2010

Ed Kluz
Posted by Simon Lewin

'Cambusnethan Priory' (below) is one of the original collages that Ed Kluz will be exhibiting at Hornseys from 12th August 2010.

We're busy working with Ed on his first screen printed fabric for St. Jude's which will be available later this year.

And Ed will also be taking part in our November St. Jude's In The City exhibition in London at The Bankside Gallery. For an invitation to the opening please sign up for our e-mail newsletter.

Posted by Simon Lewin on August 10th, 2010

Liberty fabrics
Posted by Angie Lewin

I recently designed these two dress weight cotton fabrics for Liberty and they've just been added to the Liberty website.

Winter Stem and Winter Thistle are each available in four different colourways.

Posted by Angie Lewin on August 1st, 2010

French Macaroons
Posted by Kate Sullivan

For a few years now, French Macaroons have been well documented on the blogasphere. I first made a batch some time ago and rather freakishly my attempts were pretty good. You see, the French Macaroon is notoriously tricky to perfect. For me it’s a bit of a Holy Grail - like achieving the perfect sourdough loaf. The many different recipes found on the web are both daunting and inspiring - it seems that I’m not alone in wanting to perfect the perfect ‘feet’, sheen, crunch and chew, that isn’t too garish in both colour and flavour (unlike the lavender ones I recently made - very Haze Air Freshener).

Over the past few weeks I have made around 350 of the dainty coloured biscuits for a big family gathering. Approximately three dozen eggs later and with fridge full of egg yolks I am quite willing to never make another macaroon again. I would however love to experience the authentic French Macaroon at the glamorous Laudree concession in Harrods or Pierre Herme’s shop in Selfridges who I first discovered through the inspiring food blog Foodbeam.

Posted by Kate Sullivan on August 1st, 2010