Salty's Studio

On a recent trip to Devon I cam across a really lovely shop called Salty's Studio in the centre of Ashburton. It's a shop that sells limited edition screen prints on a variety of items such as artwork, tea towels and cards and is owned by Sandra and Jim Salter. Jim is a graphic designer with a playful approach to bold type and simple visual icons. Sandra was an animation filmmaker and has a love of fresh, energetic brush marks and stories about food. Each item has been screen printed by them in their studio shop and the selection on offer has been beautifully curated.

I bought these two carpenters pencils which I'm looking forward to using in my next drawing class.

I little nook in the studio shop displays simple, fun artwork and products in a black and white colour palette.

Colour and style brings cohesion to this tiny shop. I love the Hello artwork.

Sandra loves to use brush marks in her work and loves stories about food.

I fell in love with this prawn illustration. It's been used on a card design and on a limited edition print.

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Weekend delights

I hope you all and a great weekend, mine was lovely!

I spent Friday and Saturday down in Devon with my good friend Sanna. She recently moved back to the UK after living in Tokyo for about four years, which is where we met. She is now living in a beautiful converted house in the depths of the countryside, surrounded by luscious rolling green fields and clean air. It was a tonic for the soul to spend some time there, catching up, eating good food and going for a very long walk - 14km in all!

When in Devon, one must partake in a cream tea and we certainly did that!

The cream was so thick, it was like ice-cream, all served up on a pretty floral tea set.

The local produce is all organic and tasty. This tomato was the size of two fists!

Fruit artfully arranged in a Japanese wooden bowl. It's amazing how well their Japanese furniture fits into their very English new home.

On Sunday I got busy making more padded kimono hearts.

Here's a little sample of some of them and they should be in my store soon.