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3-chimneys — Painting a Mural in a local primary school

child's hand printing a linocut print — Artist in Residency in Munich

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Shapes, colours, patterns and textures. I’m lov

Shapes, colours, patterns and textures.

I’m loving playing with these new ideas for prints and earrings too!

I just love playing! It’s definitely my favourite part of my job as a self employed full time artist.

Aspects like finishing my work and framing or carefully packaging it, ordering stock, stock checking, promoting my work….less fun, difficult even, but essential I guess!

I do love arranging my work on my stall though and seeing how all the ideas I’ve had work together when displayed. Its certainly always very colourful!
I’ll be doing this again for the first time in a few months at @compton_verney print fair next weekend!

I’m really looking forward to catching up with some fellow printmakers there including @katebrooksprints and @jonmackay73 and meeting some other printmakers I’ve been following on here for ages.

Woodcut printing my lampshades. This is lots of f

Woodcut printing my lampshades.

This is lots of fun! I have to remember that the print will look completely different once it’s a cylinder shape.

I’ll be bringing these to the print fair at @compton_verney in a couple of weeks.

Today’s collage challenge. Done this evening af

Today’s collage challenge.

Done this evening after a day of lots of things including an afternoon woodcut printing.

Not feeling it quite so much this evening, but decided to stick with the Autumn theme and create a few Autumnal fruits.

I’ll have to start thinking about collages on a more Wintery theme soon, but not yet…..

Sketchbooks. I always have several of these on th

Sketchbooks.

I always have several of these on the go and I rotate them so I can work in one while paint or glue is drying in the other. Recently I’ve been trying to work into them in a ‘mindless’ way. Literally emptying my mind and then just collaging and doodling onto the pages. I’m finding it’s then a great source for ideas. I’m creating simple wood and linocut blocks and smaller and quicker prints at the moment, using the sketchbook ideas as a springboard.

I’m printing and sketch booking in between my timed collages and as you can imagine my studio is getting very messy! This is when I start to fantasise about having a huge space to work, with different workstations for different activities!

Here’s a quite preview of what I’ve been doing

Here’s a quite preview of what I’ve been doing today. 😁

#printmaking #stampprinting #colourfulart #abstractart #dailyart #wipartwork #geometricshapesandpatterns #geometricart #creativeday #colourfulprint #colourfulpatterns #samgroomprintmaker #studiosunday

Feeling those Autumn vibes at the moment. Went bl

Feeling those Autumn vibes at the moment.

Went blackberry picking yesterday and here’s a blackberry collage to celebrate the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’.

I’m looking forward to delicious crumbles over the next few weeks.

I’m aiming to make a collage a day for the next week or two, in an attempt to get my creative mojo back after a summer holiday where as always, the routine has been disrupted.

It’s definitely working! Why not join me?

#autumnvibes #autumncolour #autumnaesthetic #blackberries #autumncollage #dailyart #cutpaperart #creativedaily #15minuteart #creativechallenge #timelapseart #samgroomprintmaker

Feel I’ve lost my mojo a bit recently, so I’m

Feel I’ve lost my mojo a bit recently, so I’m setting myself a daily 15 min creative collage challenge, that I did a year or so ago.

I literally had no idea what I was going to create as I began this one today. It became a crab very quickly! 🦀

As often happens over the Summer hols, I’ve got out of the rhythm of making new work and posting on on social media. But as GCSE results were yesterday (and my daughter did brilliantly by the way….whoop!) I feel the time is right to begin getting my creative head back, in anticipation of a return to a routine and also prior to a lot of events and workshops in the run up to the busiest time of year.

I’ll try and do one of these every day for the next couple of weeks at least. Some will hopefully become new cards. 😁

#crabart #collageart #colourfulart #collagefun #creativecollage #dailyart #craftycrab #handmadeart #vibrantcolors #playfulart #samgroomprintmaker #creativedaily #instaartwork #15minartchallenge

My lampshade completed. Showing 4 sides(!) or vie

My lampshade completed.

Showing 4 sides(!) or views, as I turn the shade around. A one off woodcut print that has been made as a commission.

I really enjoyed printing this. I used colours that appear in two of my woodcut prints, that the customer already has. They wanted the shade to compliment the prints.

Although very labour intensive I do love creating these lampshades and I’ll be making a few more to bring to events I have coming soon. The next one is the print fair at @compton_verney in September.

#lampshade #abstractprint #abstractdesign #woodcutprint #handprinted #handmade #functionalart #pinkandgreen #midcenturymodern #retoaesthetic #samgroomprintmaker #comptonverneyprintfair #comptonverney

I sometimes wish making up a lampshade was as quic

I sometimes wish making up a lampshade was as quick as this Timelapse film makes it look!

This woodcut printed ‘one off’ lampshade has been commissioned to go in a hallway that already has two of my larger woodcut prints in. My lovely customer @sarabandbooks wanted me to use a combination of the colours found in both of the prints that she already had.

It’s always a bit scary creating a piece for someone, but I’m really pleased with this one and I’m sure it will look great in its new home.

#workinprogress #timelapseart #lampshademaking #woodcutprint #abstractdesign #midcenturyaesthetic #commissionedart #samgroomprintmaker

It may be a hundredth of the size of the garden at

It may be a hundredth of the size of the garden at @charlestontrust but this morning my little urban garden is filling me with joy!

#urbangarden #terracedhouse #citygarden #smallgarden #summertime #sheffieldissuper #thisishillsborough #hillsboroughhighlights #tomatoplants #nasturtium #smallgardenideas #makethemostofwhatyouvegot

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