Elphicks

My prints are now available to purchase from Elphicks on Columbia Road E2.
Elphick’s is a gallery/shop and studio owned by the artist Sharon Elphick famed for her photographic montages of high-rise architecture.
Open Sunday 9am-4pm.
By appointment Monday-Friday.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7033 7891
Email: info@sharonelphick.com

Made in India

Well....No actually. Made in Hackney Wick.
Some invites I have just printed for Few and Far for their open day to launch the new seasons stock.

Nice window!

Spotted in Islington. A very nice effect but we all know what a nuisance old masking tape can be to remove from windows! I think they may need to purchase a small can of lighter fuel and some Stanley blades. They should click here to get a few helpful tips.

Hoodwinked

Hoodie on the head or no hoodie on the head, all are welcome in this shop. But, only 2 school children at a time please.

Olympic update

I just took a wander down the road from my studio to check on the progress of the Olympic Stadium construction.

Here it is looming behind the old Big Breakfast house at Old Ford Lock.

Buck

A nice spread from the latest issue of Buck magazine featuring my 'Bags' linocut.

Elle Decoration

It was my great pleasure to see one of my linocuts 'Hexagon 1' in this months Elle Decoration (April 09), especially as it shared the page with a print by maestro Charlie Harper.

Betsey's Winterlude

I have designed and printed some posters for 'an ale and mead fuelled musical revel'. Betseys Winterlude at the Conway Hall is organised by the folk at The Betsey Trotwood and features The Magic Numbers and Danny & the Champions of the World amongst others.
I have done a small run of 50 screenprints on some nice paper that I shall be selling on the night and through my website

Inauguration Day

Some fun to be had on this Inauguration Day at OBAMICON.ME by giving yourself the Shepard Fairey treatment.

This is where the magic happens

New print hot off the press! Inspired by MTV Cribs. An ideal gift for Valentines day me thinks.
'Magic'
2 colour Linocut on Zerkall Printing Soft White 145gms
Edition of 75 signed and numbered by James Brown
Paper Size: 36 x 51cm, Image Size: 26 x 40cm
Available from here

Alma Mater

I am doing a spot of teaching at Middlesex University, working with the second year Printed Textile students on a wallpaper project. I have always loved the wallpaper room at Middlesex, its run like a well oiled machine by master printer Barry Jenkins. It was also nice to see a piece of my work still up on the wall after all these years. Barry put it up as an example of a fine colour separation, not I hope as an example of a narcissistic student putting their face on a stained glass window to print as wallpaper!

Stella loves!

The Sunday Telegraph magazine Stella featured my 'Rules are for Fools' print on their 'Stella Loves' page.

GQ 20th Anniversary issue

Jim Laurence (which is me-James Brown) has done a portrait of Eminem for the GQ 20th Anniversary bumper issue-out in the shops now!

POSTCARD Book

I have some postcards featured in a new book published by Laurence King called POSTCARD.
Designed and compiled by international design studio FL33, the book features more than 100 artists, illustrators, photographers, designers and studios/collectives from around the world, with emerging talents sitting alongside established artists. The book contains a collectors set of 20 specially commissioned postcards from some of the biggest names in the business.
www.postcard-book.info

press & pull

Thank you to all who came to the 'press & pull' opening on Tuesday night, Kate and myself both had a great evening.
If you haven't come to the show it would be great to see you over the weekend, we are there until 7.00 on Sunday.

PRESS & PULL

Myself and Kate Gibb are having a small show called 'press & pull'. Kate is a screenprint artist (pull) and I will be showing some lino cuts (press).
The show is at The Ada Street Gallery, 2a Ada Street, London E8 4 QE.
Private View- Tuesday 26th August 2008, 6pm -9pm
Show open daily 12pm-7pm, Wednesday 27th- Sun 31st.
Here are some of the prints that I am working on for the show. Hope to see you there!

Subterranean Homesick Blues

I have made a linocut called 'Cue Cards', (with a little help from Bob Dylan, Donovan, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Neuwirth).

The Broadway Bookshop

I have just put some prints up in The Broadway Bookshop on Broadway Market in Hackney.

Exercise book

I found this old cover of a school book from 1961 in a junk shop.
(Click on the image to enlarge and read the schoolboy scrawls.)

I liked it so much I have made a screen print of it so you can all have one!

Mapograph Major

Just printed a world map from my 'Mapograph Major- World Mercator'.
A relief map on a roller, ink it up, roll it on paper and hey presto!