time to talk

My talk at the Apple Store, London is on Monday. Be there or... well, don't be there...

winner(s)

--- Wow, 200 blog comments! That True Love Pug necklace sure is popular... I'm happy to announce that the winner is - Šárka Černá ... but with so many entries, I decided to send a mystery prize to 3 additional participants. They are -  Jasmina Trudl, charliedarling and Jilliebeanie --- I'll be contacting y'all soon --- Thanks to everyone who entered ---

a true love giveaway

It's been a while since I've had a giveaway on here ... So let's have one, shall we?
/// Leave a comment below to be in with a chance of winning this fine "True Love" pug necklace * ... Winner will be picked at random next Thursday. ///

* Exclusively available from The Distinguished, Plymouth and my shop

naïve, or just bad?

I read this article yesterday and it really annoyed me. Not so much because it implies that Ben Shahn was a bad artist : "Shahn couldn't (or chose not to) draw very well. At all." ... because I think it's pretty obvious to anyone with half a creative brain that Shahn's drawings are in fact, quite amazing and no less so for being non-representational (I mean, Picasso's cat/dove etc. sketches aren't exactly in a realistic style, but everybody loves those). What really annoyed me was the opening paragraph;

Made by White... and Gemma

I collaborated with the lovely ladies at Made by White to make these beautiful wooden brooches, available in my shop and online at madebywhite.com --- In other news, I am engaged! My name will soon be the almost-impossible-to-pronounce Gemma Correll Zinonos... and yes, Mr Pickles will be wearing a tux for the occassion ...

Cat Rabbit Dog Bear ...

My exhibition "Graham is a Weirdo ..." at Tatty Devine, Brick Lane, is now up and running, until July 31st /// Look at the amazing stuff that Cat Rabbit sent me - all the way from Australia! ///

Sticky stuff

Like sticking things to other things? Like animals wearing hats? Then you might like this decorative parcel tape wot I designed for Betty & Dupree - now available in my shop.

exhibitions!

I'm taking part in two exhibitions next week. The first is a solo show at the wonderful Tatty Devine shop on Brick Lane- starting on Thursday (June) 30th. Then there's the Looking for Trouble show, curated by Amy Blackwell and featuring such talented ladies as Lizzy Stewart and Helen Entwisle- starting on Saturday July 2nd, in Nottingham...

Polly and Me... and You

One of my favourite projects from last year was designing some handbags for Polly & Me - a social enterprise focused on designing and creating accessories made by women's embroidery collectives with over 500 women in Chitral, Pakistan. Here are a couple of the designs. --- Check out the Polly & Me Facebook page for more ---

It's a Wrap, folks!

--- Here's something I drew for the undeniably wonderful Wrap magazine --- I seem to have a new web-based obsession every week. This week's is GoodReads --- Bon weekend!