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Elphicks at Multiplied

Today, I have been helping Sharon Elphick set up her stand at Multiplied, the contemporary editions fair at Christie's. The stand looks fantastic and I would recommend you all have a look round the show.

Christie’s, South Kensington
85 Old Brompton Road
London SW7 3LD

Public viewing
Friday 15 October 9am – 5pm
Saturday 16 October 11am – 5pm
Sunday 17 October 11am – 5pm
Monday 18 October 9am – 7:30pm

Admission to Multiplied Art Fair is free.

Cath Kidston update

Sales of my prints for Cath Kidston seem to have made a promising start. I popped in the Marylebone High Street store yesterday to check out the merchandising.

Fakery in Greenwich

I have lived in London for most of my life, I have worked in Greenwich and I go there often, but I have never before today been to to the Royal Naval College. I have always assumed the hoards or Italian students where visiting the Cutty Sark, The Observatory or my personal favourite, the Maritime Museum.

I was dumb struck when I walked into the The Painted Hall in the Naval College, it is the most amazing example of nautical trompe l'oeil I have ever seen, even the flutes on the columns were expertly faked. Nelson's body (which was pickled in a cask of brandy) lay in state here two months after his death at Trafalgar.

Outside the painted hall in the grounds of the College a modern form of fakery was taking place with the filming of The Pirates of The Caribbean 4. Huge scaffold backed facades extended from the original buildings, smoke and wind machines were buzzing, huge blue screens were being erected to enable the latest CGI trickery and the London Fire Brigade hosed the ground to simulate muddy streets for the horse and carts and Tricorned extras.

The Colleges Chapel is also well worth a visit but I was most impressed by their amazing harvest festival display. My mum and son were convinced one of the red peppers wasn't real, I do hope they were right as it would carry on the theme of the day.

The 'C' word

Yes I know its still only September.... so I apologies for mentioning the 'C' word. I have designed the flyer and poster for Columbia Road's Christmas Wednesdays which takes place throughout December. For more info on Columbia Road E2, click here

Point of Sale

Just made this to display my HAT badges.

Keep your hat on.

Balmoral bonnets, Kepi hats and pith helmets.... Its almost as if my HATS print has come to life in a Kent car boot sale.

V&A 'Cherry on the Cake'

The ‘Cherry on the Cake’ range is the V&A’s designer collection, and

represents the best of the best in its shops. It brings together

designers, ideas and products in a collection of exclusive editions to

match the diversity, originality and quality of the V&A itself.

The third 'Cherry on the Cake' collection, focuses on paper and brings

with it a resurgence of interest in the medium, the collection includes

traditional printmaking, paper engineering, typography and paper-cut

techniques.

I have been invited as one a group of 12 artists whose working practice

has an affinity to the Museum to produce a piece for this new Paper

collection. The other artists are Aardvark, Fred Butler, Nina Chakrabarti,

D-BROS, Lisa Jones, Ed Kluz, Angie Lewin, Charlotte Mann, Tom Martin,
Rob Ryan and Chisato Tamabayashi.

Check out the whole range on display in the V&A Shop and online at

www.vandashop.com from the 15th September.

My contribution was to illustrate the William Morris quote;

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

Blink

BLINK LONDON is a new fashion reporting and consultancy service offering a unique insight in to the best of the British fast fashion womenswear. BLINK interviewed me, read it here.

Hat badges

Five 25mm pins per pack, collect all three sets here

Cath Kidston

I have done a collection of 4 limited edition screen prints for Cath Kidston. They will be going into the following 10 stores on 13th September and also available online £65 unframed and £125 framed;

York

Liverpool

Tunbridge Wells

Kingston

Marylebone

Cheltenham

Wimbledon

Winchester

Windsor

Sloane Square

Victor(ia) & Al(bert)pha

My ALPHA poster now available in the V&A shop.

X is for Xylographer

'A was an Artist' hand-coloured woodcut 1898

William Nicholson 1872 – 1949

In my ever so humble, a true 'A', one half of the 'B'-staff Brothers and a master 'X'.

A was an Artist

B is for Beggar

C is for Countess

D is for Dandy

E is for Earl

F is for Flower Girl

G is for Gentleman

H is for Huntsman

I is for Idiot

J is for Jockey

K is for Keeper

L is for Lady

M is for Milkmaid

N is for Nobleman

O is for Ostler

P is for Publican

Q is for Quaker

R is for Robber

S is for Sportsman

T is for Trumpeter

U is for Urchin

V is for Villian

W is for Waitress

X is for Xylographer

Y s for Yoke

Z is for Zoologist

Squirrel

New Print- SQUIRRELS.

3 colour Screen print on Off White 315gms Heritage Woodfree Paper Edition of 150, signed and dated by James Brown Paper Size: 34 x 34 cm. Image Size: 27 x 27 cm

Available here for a mere £66

Little London Fields

This Saturday 7th August I will be selling my wares at Little London Fields, a free one day festival showcasing an array of talented up and coming bands, record labels, artists, designers and performance collectives. If you happen to be in London Fields E8 on Saturday then please stop by and say 'hello'.

Hat's the way, uh-huh uh-huh

I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh....

New print finished at last and with typo corrected.

'Hats'

5 colour screen print on off White 270gms paper
Edition of 140 signed and numbered by James BrownPaper Size: 36 x 50cm, Image Size: 28.5 x 40cm

£95 available here

Hold on to your hats!

New print coming soon...

Grump

'Grumpy Love' by MH Jeeves

Available here.

Telesales

Topiary toupee

This electricity box's hedgerow hairpiece made me smile this morning.