New Year, New Artists

Hello everyone, well this is the first post of the year, I guess I've been a bit slack lately.
We haven't been idle in the shop though, we have lots of lovely new things in, so I thought I ought to share some of them with you.
First up we have some gorgeous wrapping paper from the awesome Betty and Dupree.

We also have some great new lithographic prints by Swedish artist Ingela P Arrhenius, there are 10 different designs, all 50 x 70cm and all priced at a very affordable £25.

We also have some lovely screenprints by Paul Blow and a selection of giclee prints by Marie Rogers and Maria Livings and all priced under £40 too.




Finally it's Valentines' Day soon and we have a great selection of non slushy cards and prints, perfect for your loved one.

Merry Christmas

We would like to wish all our customers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thank you to everyone for supporting us this year, you are very important to us and we really couldn't do it without you.
We hope to see you all again in the new year.


Red and gold screenprint by Karoline Rerrie.
Available at Here and Now.

A Beano of an exhibition, 8th Nov - 31st Dec.

Nick Brennan is a freelance cartoonist who has worked for clients including the BBC, Oxford University Press, and our very own Falmouth Art Gallery. But perhaps most well-known are the comic strips that he's drawn for the Beano and the Dandy over the past twenty years. Over that time he's drawn a number of characters for both publications, and this exhibition features the original artwork, drawn in pen & ink, of a number of them.

Included are pages of his longest running character, Blinky, the all-round buffoon who has appeared in the Dandy for over 15 years. Also here are pages from the Beano strip "Crazy for Daisy", which ran for over a decade, and featured lovestruck young Ernest Valentine and Daisy, the object of his over-enthusiastic affections. Amongst a variety of other characters appearing is, perhaps, the most famous of the bunch, Billy Whizz, the fastest boy in the world, who appears in the Beano every week, drawn by Nick.

All the pages in this exhibition have appeared in print, albeit digitally coloured, and with speech bubbles added.

The exhibition runs from 8th Nov - 31st Dec at 41a Killigrew St. Falmouth. TR11 3PW.
www.heregallery.co.uk

Introducing Kiykera Brown

Kiykera Brown is a new Cornish designer specialising in whimsical illustrations of a burlesque nature.

Although born, raised and currently living in Cornwall she takes inspiration from nights out on the burlesque scene in Liverpool and her travels around the UK and Japan. Her favourite burlesque artist is Millie Dollar closely followed by her close friend, Miss Cherry Kitten.

Other inspiration comes from Japanese anime and manga and a love of figurative life drawing from an early age. Kiykera studied textiles, printing and design at Falmouth University and Swansea Metropolitan University and has done life drawing with Guy Noble of Central Saint Martin’s and Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School.

These cheeky illustrations use a combination of hand drawn and digital imagery to create a delightful 1950s inspired series of ‘modern pin-up girls’. Although slightly risqué Kiykera is very careful with the content of her drawings and is very against the over sexualisation of women in the modern world. Her drawings hark back to a much more innocent era where burlesque was very much about the dance and the tease and was a form of entertainment enjoyable by either sex.

Kiykera uses specially sourced crafters bottle tops as a vehicle for her images printing onto specialised decal paper and sealing with resin for a high quality finish. Her father’s side of the family lived for many years in Zimbabwe, where local women and children make art from bottle caps and found objects on the roadside. Gifts from her Grandmother, bought from these sellers whilst visiting in Africa, have inspired her use of found objects including recycling old lampshades, fabrics and plates for her series of home wares.

Kiykera Brown art and illustrations can be found on a range of handmade jewellery exclusive to the Here and Now Gallery and Kiykera’s own website or craft stalls. She is also working on expanding the range into home wares with lampshades, oven gloves, peg bags and decorative plates all being finalised in her studio for sale before Christmas! Many of her background images are inspired by her biro drawings of found objects and are about subverting the traditional floral prints of the textiles world. These images feature more prominently in her large prints on home wares and plates.

More information, news, new products and her blog can all be found on her website:

www.kiykerabrown.moonfruit.com

or through her facebook and twitter pages /kiykerabrown

Thank you for looking and have a lovely day!

A Forest Tale - Mini Exhibition, on now till November

Tom Hubmann is an illustrator who currently resides in Cornwall where he enjoys long walks by the sea, looking for piskies and supping tea. Tom has just finished an MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice, at the University of Falmouth.

During the winter of 2010 / 11, Tom begun work on ‘A Forest Tale’ which documents, celebrates and looks at some of the issues surrounding our relationship with trees.

The project takes the form of a mini exhibition and can best be described as being playful, with serious undertones. It includes screen prints, risograph prints, mono prints, narratives, postcards and even notebooks made entirely out of sheep poo.

Engaging the imagination in a playful manner, Tom’s work explores context, humour, wonderment and simplicity. It journeys through the realms of the unexpected, the absurd and the ‘what if?’.
Combining line drawing, pattern, texture and printmaking, the output can be quite diverse including comics, posters, tshirts and handcrafted books. He enjoys working in different formats allowing him to develop a different style to support the message of each individual project.

For forthcoming projects and recent work, please check out his website and blog.

Thank you for looking and have a lovely day.

www.brainwig.com
www.tomhubmann.blogspot.com

Were back

Hello,
It's been a while since I've posted anything on here but that doesn't mean that nothing exciting has been happenning, in fact I have been rather busy with our new arrival, a little baby boy. His arival has led us to make a few changes in the shop and we are now stocking a lot more gifts, a few homeware items from mellybee and even some baby bibs and other bits from hootchie mama.
We have decided to give the exhibitions a rest for a while to concentrate more on other things, but there is plenty of new artwork including some lovely prints from Bethan Buss and peskimo to come in and see.

Hope you've all had an amazing summer and we hope to see you soon.

Design a Tote bag Competition

COMPETITION: 2012, how do you see it?
To celebrate ‘London 2012’ Ally Capellino wants to collaborate with you!

When you buy something the Ally Capellino shops your purchases are popped into a fabric tote bag. We’ve previously celebrated our 30 years in business with original designs on these bags and now we want your ideas to be involved. The winners will receive a £200 voucher to be spent at Ally Capellino and will have their design printed on over 1000 bags. They will also be shared online, on this Tumblr site, Facebook, Twitter etc. So a seriously great opportunity to get some publicity for your work!
Click on the link for details of how to enter.
http://allycapellinocomp.tumblr.com/#9330266995