Tea with the Queen?

This Diamond Jubilee Union Flag canvas print looks at home next to a typically English blue and white china tea service! Tea anyone?

Canvas print flags 40 x 30 Cms available at £70 each - a great Diamond Jubilee souvenir with a difference. It features stamps issued during the Queen's reign and has that touch of nostalgia too! email: markwickrachel@gmail.com

2012 London Olympics - National Flags in Stamps!

I was set a challenge last year and that was to create stamp collage flags of all the nations taking part in the 2012 London olympics. Of course, I should have started an awful lot earlier as here we are in March 2012 with just under 5 months to go and I've completed flags for about 25 countries. Rather a lot to do ...

It's been fun, but much more difficult for some flags than others, due to a number of factors.

Red, white and blue flags are relatively easy to make dependent on their design of course. Our lovely Union flag, or Union Jack as it is popularly known, is one of the more complex designs and very distinctive and we've issued plenty of stamps which are predominantly blue or red, as have France, and the Netherlands. Availability of stamps is a big factor - shown above are the flags of the Beijing Olympics highest Gold medal winners - third came Russia, but I've yet to make their flag due to a shortage of stamps!

The flags of 22 different nations currently appear on the Flags page of my website and I've recently completed flags of Spain and the Netherlands so will shortly add those. At the moment I'm working on the flag of Greece, which is blue and white. Greece was the country where the Olympics began and the challenge is to complete this one by the end of this month - and I can award myself a treat, if not a Gold Medal!

So excited to receive a letter from Buckingham Palace!

I sent the Queen one of my greetings cards, a special Diamond Jubilee version of the Union Flag all made of stamps - all British and of course every one of them has her on it!









As you can see from the letter, she liked it!

Rainbow Trust and Stamp Collages

20% of sale price of these pictures on show in Waterstones / Costa in Cheltenham will be donated to Rainbow Trust helping families of children suffering from Leukemia.

These three prints are beautifully framed in gold coloured wood frames with the verse for each ship printed within the mount.

All depict the ships of John Masefield's poem, Cargoes : The Quinquireme of Nineveh (above).


The Stately Spanish Galleon
(centre right)








Dirty British Coaster
(left)












Canvas prints of three of my flag collages including the latest Diamond Jubilee Union Jack Stamp collage are also in the exhibition and for sale.


Call in to Waterstones, and enjoy the exhibition along with your coffee!

Exhibition on until early/ mid April or contact me for more details.