Brand Licensing 2012

We had a successful show at Brand Licensing at Olympia last week - the big hit was Animals on the Underground and Glasgow Museums with lots of interest across the board for our contemporary designers and extensive heritage image library. We're busy following up all the enquiries and looking forward to some interesting new projects!

Celebrating 1 Year in Business

We've been celebrating our first year - Sue & I met in May 2011 and worked together on various licensing projects before making the natural move to join officially join forces - 1st October was our official birthday. Marking one year since we first registered our website, we've had a busy first year and thank you to you all for such great feedback and messages. Read more here

Yellow House Art featured in new Countlan magazine

Hot off the press! It's an honour to have 'Yellow House Art' featured in the launch issue of Countlan, focused on the world of entertaining, August 2012. Read the x 3 page article here - a big thanks to Countlan co-creator Sarah Lambersky for such positive feedback, 'Thank you so much for allowing me to interview you about Yellow House Art. I loved learning about your entrepreneurial story and artist selection process and I hope my readers will too'. Countlan is a new quarterly digital magazine dedicated to exploring how people all over the world entertain at home. It's beautifully designed with great photographs and diverse content....thanks Sarah! Read the launch issue here

Yellow House Art article in launch Issue - Countlan Magazine

Everyone loves Ken Eardley & Jane Muir

The Launch issue of Countlan

Countlan in print

Countlan co-creator Sarah Lambersky

My embroidery designs for Colcards

Six of my music designs are selling well for card company Colcards - taken from a range of original framed paper embroideries. The original embroideries have been best-sellers for over 10 years and have retailed to many independent retailers and galleries including Vienna Opera House & the Royal Shakespeare Company. It's nice to see them launched as a new range of cards - dare we say the word 'vintage'?! See more of my embroideries here

Neopolitan Mandolin - Jehane - one of six designs for Colcards

Violincello - Jehane for Colcards

x 6 designs - Jehane - Colcards

Colcards exhibition stand at PG Live

Colcards collection by Jehane Boden Spiers

Close-up of 3 designs

Steph Holmes - Brighton winner of Anna's award 2012

Stephanie Holmes' work is the worthy winner of the Brighton University Anna-Maria Desogus memorial award 2012. With a strong sense of narrative, her work won for it's combination of underlying personal meaning and important social issues of imprisonment and isolation. I look forward to seeing her work develop over the coming year. A new award is currently in discussions with Stourbridge College at National Diploma level; in Anna's local area we are hoping it will encourage students to pursue their art studies and perhaps even send a few students to the Brighton Uni 3d Materials Practise degree.....

Brian Sweet for the National Trust

We have secured an exciting new licensing agreement in conjuntion with greeting-cards company Colcards. Eye-catching ranges of stationery products will be hitting 47 National Trust shops now. Bespoke products are also in development for West Cornwall Nation Trust branches. Painted by the establised artist Brian Sweet, his images featured on the range include St Michael's Mount and Corfe Castle...

Snippets! #New card designs

Hot off the press! I've really enjoyed developing this new range of x 9 cards with artist Jane Robbins - the range has just been launched by award-winning card publisher The Art File. Jane Robbins aptly named the range 'Snippets' - each image is cleverly created using snippets of newspapers (Jane's favourite source is The Guardian). The cards are already selling fast and you can order Jane Robbins prints for framing at Yellow House Art. I love the Birds Branches print!

Official Launch at DIAL for PG Live

Art House Licensing had a very busy launch at DIAL for PG Live 2012. Client interest was high and feedback was excellent. Comments included 'Each image is a work of art' to 'You are obviously selective, keep it up', 'You have such a wide choice' and 'Very trendy'.  We were delighted to get such a positive reaction & Thanks again to Steven Lenton for his 'Corgi' Jubilee badges and to the team at PG Live for a great launch, not to mention Rob & Jacquie's impeccable service of DIAL celebration bubbly!

Sue & Jehane at the trade fair DIAL for PG Live 2012

excellent ranges from Lagom Design

me & a lovely penguin

Steven Lenton's famous corgi

Short-list 2012: Anna-Maria Desogus Memorial Award

Anna-Maria Desogus 1968 - 2008

It's already a year since I set up Anna's memorial award, Anna died of cancer on 9 February 2008 (she was 39 years old). Last week I went to Brighton University 3-D Materials Practise BA to select the short-list from this year's group of second year students.

The criteria are: a) Makes a strong visual statement  b) Innovative and creative consideration of materials, subject matter or form  c) Thinking ‘outside the box  d)  Shows humour and / or awareness of social issues  e) Presenting / exhibiting the work in a novel way 

See more images of the Shortlisted Students 2012 - Anna-Maria Desogus Memorial award 

Jessica Elcock - Three Dimensional Postcard from Milan

Maya Helgadottir - Elements of Nature

Isabel Gosdaere - Reco Cam

Stephanie Holmes - Lady of Shallot

Tsuwan Hsich - Narrative Design

 

Jane Robbins - Prints

Yellow House artist Jane Robbins is showing at new venue 5 Warleigh Road this year, aptly named 'The Garden House'! I caught up with Jane at the private view, fantastic to see her new prints 'Bird Branches' 'Flower-pots' & 'Kitchen'. Her use of beautiful snippets of collage & newspaper cuttings is just gorgeous - i'd love to have them all! Particularly exciting is that Jane created these as part of a commission with us at Art House Licensing, so they will soon also be available as greeting-cards (published by The Art File). The range is called SNIPPETS - a total of x 9 lovely designs coming soon!

Bird branches

Flower pots by Jane Robbins

Kitchen Utensils - print by Jane Robbins

The Garden House - 5 Warleigh Road

Vintage garden tools (i bought the little red ones!)

Paul Thurlby Alphabet

Alphabet Book by Paul Thurlby

Available at the South Bank Centre Shop

Mr Paul Thurlby

Z for Zip

We've had such a busy month! With three websites to run, two blogs, two Linked-in accounts, two twitter accounts and two facebook accounts.....it's all keeping me very busy. One of the highlights this month was meeting artist Paul Thurlby whose funky alphabets have been creating a lot of attention. His 'Alphabet' book, published by Templar, is a true find for any lover of typography, alphabets, and indeed fans of thinking outside the box. We bought a copy at the SouthBankCentre shop, signed by Paul to my two children 'You're Awesome!' - Thanks Paul :)