'Au Revoir' tote by Gemma Correll for Soma

We have just received a big box full of these fantastic totes that Gemma Correll designed exclusively for Soma. They are printed in black and orange onto 100% organic cotton totes and printed with environmentally friendly inks down in Cornwall. They are available in both our Bristol gallery or online for £10.

You can view the tote on our website here.

Or you can view all Gemma Correll items at Soma here.

Artist of the week: James Brown

The next printmaker in the rather infrequent series that is Artist of the Week is James Brown. We've just received some great new prints from him and some new totes. We've been selling James' work for a few years now and he's always been very popular!


The Man, linocut print


Way Out, linocut print


Unexpected Item, silkscreen printed tote bag in 2 colourways

London based James Brown is an illustrator and printmaker. He trained as a textile and surface print designer and worked in the clothing industry for 10 years producing print designs for numerous brands from Levis to Louis Vuitton.

After two years at Hope & Glory menswear James embarked on a new career as an illustrator in 2007. James has been commissioned to produce work by publishing houses, magazines and newspapers and advertising and design agencies. Recent clients include Oxfam, Cancer Research, The Guardian and Faber & Faber.

Alongside his commercial practice James produces limited edition screen prints and linocuts. James' prints reflect his interest in the printed and typographic ephemera of pop culture. The traditional processes that go into the production of James’ prints are very important.


Pointers, silkscreen print

The below prints are a little older but still very popular!


Bags, lino cut print


Me & You, silkscreen print


Viking, silkscreen print

You can view all James Brown prints at Soma here.

Artist of the week: Spencer Wilson

With all the events of the last couple of weeks, I've let the Artist of the week feature slide. So here we are back again with Spencer Wilson in the spotlight!


Wish

Spencer Wilson is a London based illustrator and co-founder of the illustration, design and animation company Peepshow Collective Ltd. He has been working to commission since 1998 in a world of neat piles of mess, coffee cups and ordered chaos.

His work follows this theme with the creation of sketchy ideas and twisted thoughts, carried through into clean vectored, balanced images placed in dynamic flat colour compositions with the occasional introduction of texture. He’s also a father to two fantastic girls who never cease to inspire him.

Spencer has an extensive client base, with examples of his work seen gracing the advertising billboards in London and across Europe, animated on TV screens, popping up on the web, adding a dash of humour to the weekend / daily newspaper supplements, monthly glossies and very rarely hanging in neat, white spaces in frames. Spencer has recently returned to his love of printmaking after a long hiatus, creating simple images on his table top press.


Strongman


Pinocchio


Elementary


Space Cowboy

View all prints by Spencer on our website here

Read a lovely blog post on Spencer and some other Soma artists here

Artist of the week: Jane Massey

Jane Massey is this week's artist of the week. Jane is a childrens illustrator and lives in Hove. We sell prints and cards by Jane.

Jane Massey studied Graphic Design at Kingston University. She worked for several design agencies in London and Hong Kong before concentrating on illustration. As well as producing numerous children's books Jane has also created illustrations for AOL, Marks and Spencer plc, Procter and Gamble, ASDA, Paperchase and Waterstones.

See all work by Jane Massey

Artist of the week: Sam Chivers

Brighton based Sam Chivers is this weeks artist of the week. We've just also received two new prints from him, so it's fitting that he should be featured here (as well as his work being exceptional). The two new prints we have just received from him are both silkscreens, a medium he is very skilled with.

Known facts about Sam:
He's a bearded Illustrator based in East Sussex.
He's been making screen prints since 2004.
He likes to take a progressive attitude to his work.
Until recently He believed Jean Michel-Jarre was born in space.

View all prints by Sam Chivers here.

Artist of the week: Hellomarine

Marine was born in Paris, grew up in South of France and moved to Brighton to study Graphic Design.

Now living and working in Brighton as an illustrator she divides her time between commissions for clients such as The Guardian, Penguin,Coca-Cola, TruThoughts, Amelia's Magazine, Jazeera Airways... and personal work that she exhibits regularly. Her work has been described as vivid, vibrant, sometimes retro or slightly surreal and has been published in Computer Arts, Etapes Graphiques, Illusive and the Secrets Of Digital Illustration.

She's inspired by her love for music and fashion, the Ye-Ye movement in 60's France, her childhood and all the different people she meets.

View Hellomarine's page at Soma Gallery.

Artist of the week: Gemma Correll

I've decided to start a weekly feature on here [edit: didn't last long!]. One of our artists will be featured and I'll post every Saturday. I'm starting with Gemma Correll as we've recently received some new cards designed by her for Hotchpotch. Image above 'I Need a Wee', below 'Let's Dance' and 'Malcolm'. You can view Gemma's page on our website here.





Gemma Correll's distinctive illustrations are addictive, especially her delightfully abundant images of pugs (including the wonderful Mr.Pickles) and cats.

Gemma graduated from the Norwich School of Art and Design in 2006 with a degree in Graphic Design and now works as a freelance illustrator. Her clients range from Virgin Holidays to the wonderful Anorak Magazine.

Gemma is probably best known for her Pugs Not Drugs design which you can buy on a tote bag here.



She is currently living in Germany. Keep an eye out on this blog and our website if you are a fan as we have something designed by Gemma for us coming this way...