East Pop West

The Artswipe space in the ex innocent smoothy office warehouse that is East Pop West until Sunday. Will post more pictures but have to deal with a crawling dongle here. The opening party on Thursday night went well, I think the turnout was very good, difficult to tell in such a cavernous space. Sold some stuff, drank some beers and then some nasty sweet cider because the beer had run out, sorry Mistah!

Comfort Blanket

A tricky one to do, very fine registration and the area of flat colour, but worth it as I think it looks great. This pink version is one of only 2, the olive green is the normal colour edition, that's only 10 though! I think Mrs Provocateur doesn't like to have unsold prints cluttering up the flat. I sure these will go quick. I think in time there will be two more of this series....

New Agent Provocateur Print

Here's the master printer mixing the colours for the print that he is going to make of AP's picture....if you look carefully you  might be able to see a can of inspiration in the foreground.

Mr P. came over to the print shed to oversee the mixing and make sure I was going to get the Burberry colours just right. Will post pics when finished of course.

New Suzko Print

I talked about the possibility of making a print with Suzko right after Upfest and finally it is here! One of her armed animal series in two colourways. They are both approximately 40x50cm on the normal Southbank 310gsm paper. The blue one is in two shades of blue and is in an edition of 25 and the pink is pink and black and is in a tiny few of only ten. They will be on sale soon from the Artswipe website for a typically affordable sum. A few A1 paste up versions on walls too.

Choose Your Weapons!

Look vaguely familiar? And yet different in so many ways....just printed these two versions for a client and very pleased with how they look. Very difficult to get a flat colour perfect, I changed ink recently to a more expensive brand and it has done the trick. Before I was getting a bit too much texture, now super flat.

New JBoy Prints

Two brand new offerings from the mysterious and rather twisted JBoy. Just finished printing them today and had to do a great deal of tearing the final edge by hand, so now they have all four edges deckled or torn. A tad smaller than A3 on a nice slightly textured paper stock, Somerset I think. Not on sale yet but will be v soon from JBoyprints.com and Artswipe may have one or two proofs for sale too...

David Shillinglaw

Went up to meet David today in his northern (London predudice here) atelier. Had a very lively and fun chat about his work and what he is up to. He has a show with Cement http://www.cement-gallery.com coming up at the East Gallery on Brick Lane at the end of August and then all over the place, better check his site for details of that. The point of meeting was of course to discuss an Artswipe screenprint and we agreed on what is to be done. The print is going to be a version of a brand new painting which David is doing on a big piece of rusty metal. Going to be trying out some new techniques and am pretty excited about it I must admit. If all goes well it will be ready for the East Gallery show.