New things in Soma

Hot off the press, this new letterpress poster from Anthony Burrill is a fabulous addition to his affordable collection. You can buy it from us here.

We have also got the Work Hard available on light yellow paper. See all prints and posters by Anthony here.

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We also have some new screenprints from Lucy Vigrass. Lucy is a member of the Illustration Collective 'Peepshow' and her work is often seen in numerous magazines and newspapers. Some of her clients include the V&A, The Independent, The Telegraph Magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian and many more. We're really pleased about these because they are gorgeous!

You can view Lucy's page on our website here.

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This cute little fella is courtesy of Graham Carter and there's plenty more where he came from! Graham is one of our most popular artists here at Soma so we're very happy to have a collection of new work from him.

You can see Graham's page 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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New things from Donna Wilson, Lisa Jones, James Brown, Michelle Thompson and more!

A few updates in our online shop and physical gallery and shop space include new textiles and some ceramics from Donna Wilson, prints and tea towels from Lisa Jones, a fantastic new screenprint from new artist Michelle Thompson and new prints by James Brown.

Donna Wilson
James Brown
Lisa Jones
Michelle Thompson
New items page

We've also just done our March Newsletter which you can read here.

When Katie Wore a Cupcake

A little bit late posting this but one of our Donna Wilson Cupcakes has made its way onto the fantastic What Katie Wore blog as a brooch! What a great thing to do with it! Check out the blog here. What Katie Wore. The cupcakes are also available on our website here.

A couple of other bits of blog press include a mention on the Easy Living blog and Art at Heart.

...And not forgetting this Valentines post from Amelia of Amelia's Magazine here.

Tatty Devine Spring Collection 'Sundae Best'

We're loving our new selection of Tatty Devine now on display in the gallery. Their spring collection is entitled "Sundae Best'. It includes senorita fans, doilies, pop star hands, cocktail umbrella pieces and more.

Tatty Devine on our website.

New Screen Prints From James Joyce

We have 5 new silkscreen prints from James Joyce available to buy here.

James Joyce is an artist/designer living and working in London. At the start of 2006 he founded his own print studio One Fine Day where he produces limited edition prints of his work and also takes on commissions. To date he's worked for a wide range of clients including Penguin books, Nike, Creative Review, Levi's, Kiehl's and Carhartt.

We had an exhibition of his work in 2007 and he's been a firm favourite with our customers ever since.