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.

Waterstones bookshop, Cheltenham and Costa

I now have six pictures hanging in Costa on the first floor of Waterstones bookshop in Cheltenham - opposite Cavendish House. Treat yourself to a coffee and have a look at some unusual art at the same time!
I hope the poetry fans will like to see the three ships which are Stamp Collage versions of the Quinquireme of Nineveh, the Stately Spanish Galleon and the Dirty British Coaster of the poem Cargoes by John Masefield. Each picture has the verse incorporated in the mount. As well as these there are three canvas print flags, the Union Jack (Diamond Jubilee version, with the Queen featuring in the centre), the French tricolor - Cheltenham is twinned with Annecy, and the Irish flag (see previous blog).

20% of sales will be donated to Waterstones current chosen charity, Rainbow Trust, which helps families of children suffering from Leukemia. Framed ships are £75 each and flags £70.

The Luck of the Irish

I had rather a lot of Irish stamps so it seemed obvious to make an Irish flag ...

then I realised it would soon be St Patrick's Day on March 17th and that Cheltenham Races will be next week end with a lot of Irish visitors coming over and as luck would have it I was offered wall space to hang some pictures in Costa in Cheltenham's branch of Waterstones Bookshop so this canvas print will be among them! And I'm not even Irish!

Had a bit of fun with this one as I've managed to include an Irish racehorse called Boomerang, a 1937 Saint Patrick stamp and good old Arthur Guinness! A portrait of Michael Collins is in the centre surrounded by Irish heritage definitives. Somewhere amongst the forty shades of green is an Irish wolfhound and a stamp commemmorating the Irish love of golf! So much to see on this Stamp collage flag. I love these beautiful Irish stamps!

Top image shows canvas print hanging on my studio wall and below that a detail of some of the stamps mentioned. Canvas available to purchase for £70.