12 January 2012

Suzanne Carpenter has offered three prints from the "Owl Eyes" series for a giveaway to My Owl Barn readers. The giveaway will have one winner who will win all the three prints. The international readers are welcome to play.

The winner will be announced on j19th January 2012.

Full details here.

09 January 2012

Stewart Easton

Stewart is a Midlands based artist currently working in hand embroidery and digital print on fabric. His work is focused on stitch and narrative using authorial illustration to create large scale embroidered panels.

Using folk song and story as a starting point he weaves story-based narratives, utilising the space of a single panel to explore time, movement and transition within his tapestry based works.

Stewart is currently making use of a hybrid technique mixing digital print with
hand embroidery exploring both modern and traditional methods of creating,
enabling his work to straddle the lines between Craft, Illustration and Fine Art.

He currently has an exhibition at mac Birmingham. He will be giving a talk, which coincides with his exhibition, on Tuesday 17th January entitled "In Conversation with Boys Who Sew". Entry is free but booking essential. Further details avaliable here.

Stewart will also be part of a "Wool" show in the Lake District. The show opens
on the 14th Jan and runs through till April 2012. Further details here.

Stewart's web site.

Stewarts portfolio here at AP.

03 January 2012

Brian Sanders

A look at the prodigious career in illustration of APs Brian Sanders over at "Todays Inspiration Blog". Currently featuring guest author Bryn Havord. Following his overview of English illustrator Brian Sanders' work produced in the 1960s, featured in April, continues with samples of Brian's illustrations made during the 1970s and '80s.

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01 January 2012

Happy New Year and welcome to the re-styled Artist Partners site.

The new 2012 brochure and a celebration of 60 years of Artist Partners

The new 2012 brochure has a retrospective section celebrating Artist Partners 60 years.

In 1950 G. Donovan Candler left a major London based artists agency to set up in business with L.A. Rix, Betty Luton White, John Barker and the designer Reg Mount. They did not solicit the representation of those artists, designers and photographers whom they had previously represented, but were nevertheless inundated with requests from many of them for representation, and so in two rooms in Soho's Lower John Street, in May 1951, Artist Partners was founded.

To celebrate our first sixty years we have plundered the archives and present a collection of images from the early days.

Looking forward we show a selection of some of the artists from our current crop.

Thanks to Bruno Tilley for brochure design, Michael Morris and Penny Jones for the retro section and Sam Hadley for the cover image.

Read all about our history.

Download the 2012 brochure & retrospective.