Paula's Place

Grant Bradley Gallery

***Newsflash!***

A spontaneous exhibition has sprung up in The Grant Bradley Gallery (South Bristol)! Me plus Lauren Tobia had the weekend to prepare the exhibition after the previous illustrator had to pull out, and it's all come together rather nicely! Exhibition on for the whole month of November.

So get down to the gallery and check out the original artwork, limited edition prints, books and cards! Including some hot-off-the-drawingboard sketches of my musical bears and penguins, which may or may not have been inspired by my magical musical house..banjo's, guitars and ukelele's..

'Dancing' by Lauren Tobia

Adventures

My adventures in Hong Kong are but a dream now! Of tall tall buildings, delicious food and friendly people. Tropical paradise islands, sea as warm as a bath, giant spiders... beautiful butterflies and birds! Hot hot hoooot sunshine, and so many markets full of wonderful things from antique lanterns to flowers, dried seafood, clothes and shoes and goldfish.

Now I'm home in Bristol in my lovely new peaceful house, with some lovely new people. Full of music and laughter, trips to the seaside, playing the piano and ukelele, and lots of fun evenings cooking dinners together!

Swan Artworks - Open!

I am delighted to be exhibiting and selling artwork, books, prints and cards, along with the marvelous Penny Ives, as the 'opening featured artists' of Swan Artworks - Bespoke Picture Framers' in Midsomer Norton.

The shop, owned and run by the lovely Tony and Carrie Osborne, even got a nice feature in The Journal:

I think the exhibition looks splendid!

Well done Carrie and Tony, opening a shop is no mean feat! Sorry I couldn't make the opening day, just snowed under with all sorts of things!

And then there were 2...

And just 1 book left to draw, and 10 days till I go to Hong Kong! And through a nice trail/chain of events, and a twist in the tale of my studio/house hunt, I have found a house to move to (just in the nick of time!) It is a beautiful house full of creative musical people, with an abundance of banjo's, ukelele's and guitars! I can't wait to move and get to know my new housemates, and meet a whole new circle of friends.

Sunshine!

I love my sunflower, a ray of sunshine even on a grey rainy day!

Been rather busy lately! But my latest news is that I am delighted to be asked to exhibit work alongside Penny Ives as the opening featured artists at 'Swan Artworks - Bespoke Picture Framers' in Midsomer Norton. A fab new shop to be opened on 29th august by the lovely Carrie and Tony. I enjoyed my afternoon out to visit their shop, meet them properly and had a good chat about music! Thanks for the tea guys :)

I'm also in the midst of drawing roughs for 3 fun short rhyming stories, all due before...

... I leave for Hong Kong on 7th September! Off to stay with my cousin for 2 weeks, and meet a couple of friends in the city. So exciting!

But before I go, I am moving house again! I can't wait, but I still don't know where I am moving to! Ideally I want to move to a smaller cheaper house so I can afford a studio(!) But the studio is 'up in the air' and I'm waiting to hear on a couple of things... but time is ticking by and I have to make a decision soon otherwise I'm going to be sofa surfing for a while! But I have back-up plans, and back-ups of back-ups.... watch this space I guess!

And took some time out camping by the seaside last weekend with some friends, bbq, campfire and shootingstars :)

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Time for Bed, Tiger!

My secret project I was doing back in january/february has finally been printed and bound! It's called 'Time for Bed, Tiger' and is published with Templar. I got my advance copies a couple of weeks ago and am over the moon with them :) It's written by Hannah Wilson, and comes with 'press out' characters of the toys which Little Tiger (the reader) must tuck into their individual beds(pockets) on each page... (something I've been having great fun playing with!)