New Mini Prints from Graham Carter

We have some lovely new mini prints from Graham Carter to add to our stunning collection of his work. All printed in small editions and measuring 30cm x 30cm at just £40 each these prints make a lovely gift or addition to any home.

View all artwork by Graham Carter here.

New Screenprinted Signs from Andy Smith

We've got some great new screenprinted signs in at the moment by Andy Smith. 'Eat Your Greens' above and 'Spill the Beans' below. Plus more 'It's All Downhill from Here' arrows pictured at the bottom. All are £100 and available on our website or in the Bristol gallery.







View all pieces by Andy Smith on our website here

Konichiwa, Japan - Photos from the show

Here are a selection of photos from 'Konichiwa, Japan' by Felt Mistress and Jonathan Edwards. You can view more on our Flickr page here.









At the opening, visitors were able to get their very own monster portraits drawn by Jonathan! See a couple below:





You can view all the work on our website here.

Rob Ryan Valentines 2012 Silkscreen Print

Every year Rob Ryan produces a special Valentines print for the romantics out there! This year he has created this beautiful silkscreen print depicting a man and woman on a bridge. It is printed in two colours (burgundy brown and soft vanilla) and is signed and numbered in an edition of 400. Print size is approximately 28.5 x 35cm, paper size is 34.5 x 42.8 cm and is £120.

The print is available on our website here and in our gallery later on in the week.

We are able to frame these prints for customers coming into our Bristol gallery. Unfortunately we are not able to post framed pictures.

Next Exhibition: Crispin Finn at Soma

We're really pleased to announce our next exhibition featuring Crispin Finn.

Pack Rat 1/10/11 - 13/11/11 
A series of prints by Crispin Finn at Soma Gallery. 

The term Pack Rat refers to people who engage in the excessive acquisition of possessions, even if the items are worthless.

Crispin Finn love collecting all sorts of objects and ephemera from continental toothpicks to a vernacular beach bat & ball design, most of it being everyday and ephemeral, but all of it curious, clever or beautiful in some way. Filling shelves and cupboards of home and studio this mass grows daily as they come across the interesting within the quotidian.

The apparent cross overs between the areas of acquiring, selecting, organising, and obsessive compulsive behaviour are all themes that have inspired their show at Soma.

For their 'Pack Rat' show they've created a set of prints in their trade mark red, white and blue based on their fascination with collecting inspired from items within their archive. These prints aim to make the ephemeral momentarily more permanent, examine the beauty of vernacular design and draw to attention how the everyday is worthy of wall space.

The preview evening will be on Friday 30th September, so please do come along if you're in Bristol!

View work by Crispin Finn here.

New Donna Wilson for Autumn/Winter 2011

We have just received some fantastic new products from Donna Wilson. Above is her new Owl and Pussycat round cushion which is available in 3 colourways.



Big Ted and Wilbur are new creatures by Donna Wilson. Big Ted is pretty big!



The House scarf is also new and comes in 3 colourways. It's really wide and cosy and will keep your neck snug when it gets cold!




We also have a load of gloves, wrist warmers and mittens from Donna for when the weather gets chilly! All beautifully designed and knitted in Scotland from super soft lambswool.

You can view all these items on Donna Wilson's page our website here.

New Lasercut by Rob Ryan

Rob Ryan has produced this beautiful new lasercut of which we have a few in Soma. The lasercut is signed (initialled) and numbered in an edition of 500. It is packaged in a yellow folder and tied up with pink ribbon and is yours for £84. This beautiful piece by Rob would make a fantastic present for others - or yourself!

You can find these lasercuts in our Bristol gallery or on our website here.

Or you can view all items by Rob Ryan at Soma on our website here.

New Blog Header Designed by Lesley Barnes

Our super brand new header has been designed for us by Illustrator and Animator Lesley Barnes. Lesley has been selling her fantastic bookmarks with us since last summer and they have proved to be a very popular addition to our stock.





Bookmarks by Lesley.

Glasgow based Lesley loves tea, brass buttons vintage books and old lady hats. She started as an animator and her graduation film 'Herzog and the Monsters' has shown at film festivals over the world and won a nimber of prizes including BAFTA Scottish Students on Screen and best animation at the Chicago International Children' film festival. Since she graduated in 2006 she have worked on a few short films for BBC Scotland, designed title sequences, directed adverts (for the economist and the charity tommys). Her last two animation projects were animations for a Channel 4 documentary (she worked with Matt Saunders aka rabbitportal on this) and also a short web based film for DBB in new york on preventing teenage suicide in America.

Herzog and the Monsters from Lesley Barnes on Vimeo.

Lesley only started Illustrating about a year ago, although she has managed to fit a large body of work into that small time. One of the first projects she was involved in was for Amelia's Anthology of Illustration. As well as having work included in the book, she created the contents and the endpages of the book.



A spread from the book above and the endpaper pattern below.



One of her current personal projects is to illustrate a pack of cards. You can view her progress here. She hopes to eventually build a huge house of cards!





Other projects include animating a title sequence of the BBC and an animated short called '7' with Thereza Rowe. The image below shows some of the characters they have created.



We can't wait to see what she will do next!

Go to Lesley Barnes page on the Soma website
An Ace in the Pack blog
Lesley Barnes

New Lasercut from Rob Ryan

We are very excited about the imminent arrival of this beautiful lasercut from Rob Ryan. It is from an edition of 250 and is signed and numbered by Rob. It is lasercut from blue card and the text reads "Our Adventure is About to Begin". It measures 27 x 37.5 cm and is mounted on white card that is approx 29 x 39.5. It costs £60 plus p&p.

We will only have a small number of these available and as the valentines lasercut sold out before we had even finished the mailout it is advisable to register your interest as soon as possible! We'll be putting the lasercut on our website when it arrives, though please get in touch if you would like to pre-order.

We also have now available on our website the full range of Rob Ryan for Roger La Borde lasercut greetings cards and his beautiful book "This Is For You".

Go to Rob Ryans page here

EDIT: This print is now available from us here Sold out now - sorry.
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