Instagram Advent images

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Four Corners Art Collective is kicking up a festive storm on Instagram with a daily advent calendar challenge. I won't be contributing an image every day but here's a growing gallery of the ones I've managed to do. Just use #adventcalendarart to join in.

UPDATE: we're over halfway through the challenge and there have been over 1,400 posts under our hashtag! Incredible and quite humbling. Massive hats off to the few who have managed a daily image. No mean feat at this time of year...

CHRISTMAS EVE UPDATE: well, we're done and we had over 1,800 posts to our hashtag. Unbelievable. Merry Christmas, all.

An Instagram Christmas

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To help get into the festive swing of things I'm joining in with Lucie Sheridan's 12 Days of Christmas Instagram challenge. We'll be drawing and posting Christmas imagery under the hashtag #12daysilloxmas

Over at the Four Corners Art Collective we're organising our own countdown to Christmas with an advent calendar challenge. You can follow us and join in yourself at #adventcalendarart. We're kicking things off on November 30th.

Here's a sneaky peek at my contribution to day 1...

Hope to see you there on December 1st! #adventcalendarart

I'm part of a new global art collective

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I am so pleased to finally be able to announce the birth of Four Corners, a brand new collective of surface pattern designers located all over the world.

There are seven artists in the collective, including me, and we met in class on the Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design e-courses run by Make It In Design. Each of us has our own distinctive signature style but we're united by a love of colour and pattern.

We're kicking off our exciting new venture with a festive-themed Instagram challenge - check out the details on the Four Corners website and join us if you can. 

In May, four of us will be exhibiting at SURTEX in New York. If you'd like to fix up a meeting while I'm in New York for SURTEX, please contact me. I'd love to see you!

New brand, new website

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After 15 years as a creative copywriter and two as a freelance illustrator, this year I decided to finally commit myself completely to surface pattern design. 

The result is a date with a booth at SURTEX in 2016 (more on that later) and this shiny new website, dedicated to my surface print and pattern portfolio and nothing else. 

I've moved all my editorial illustration over to BIG, the Brighton Illustrators Group website, and said a final goodbye to copywriting.

To celebrate, I used the free downloads from the Brand Stylist website to develop an understated, laid back and luxurious brand identity that I hope is distinctive and unfussy and reflects the kind of prints and patterns I love to make. Here are some of the elements.

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