NEW

We have just had new canvas prints made of two of Marks paintings, Tree 20 - Woodland Stag and Tree 21 - Spring Garden.

These canvas prints are available on our website, click on the images to go straight to the shop listing.

We think these canvas prints are of an excellent quality and are (almost) as good as the originals, available in different sizes as wrapped canvas prints.

Woodland Stag

Spring Garden

Porlock Weir

You can now find my jewellery and Mark's prints and greeting cards in a quirky little shop at Porlock Weir.

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The Old Stables at Porlock Weir

Its well worth a visit and we will look forward to going up to Porlock to top up the shop and make a day of it with the children and dog.

April

With the Easter bank holiday weekend nearly over, it's back to work, we had a lovely afternoon with a joint effort Sunday lunch with my parents (who live next door) and Mark's parents who were down for the weekend.

I have just sorted out a big pile of cards for Mark to sign (that will put a smile on his face!) ready to take to Glastonbury and Wells over the next couple of days. Including lots of the new paintings which seem to be going down a treat!

And then I think I will make a few pieces of jewellery. This afternoon tho I will get out on the veg patch and take Rowan to the Wellington Monument for a stroll.

Easter Weekend

I am now loving the fact that after 3 weeks of working on it I have now finished what I needed to do to the website to hopefully get it up to speed - for now!!
I'd love to receive some comments on what you think www.tandm-artsandcrafts.co.uk

So what to do now?

Well I have been banned from making mosaics in the sunroom as that is where the cats sleep (on their very own sofa!!!) and Marks worried all the little shards of glass will get in their feet (quite rightly) so I have to move into the studio - which is fine in the summer!

We  have Marks parents coming to stay this weekend as its Easter so its a good time to give the house a spring clean!

The wind has been a bit of a nuisance this week, with two markets cancelled, but hopefully we have seen the worst now and things will start to settle a bit, although Wednesday at Wells was eventful this week with market umbrellas flying in the wind - luckily not mine as I had taken extra weights, phew!

Mark is busy painting away his next painting which will come with a little surprise!!
Here's a sneaky peek!

I'm not going to give too much away at this stage - you will just have to wait and see!

Ah well those kitchen cupboards wont clean themselves!!

I have done something a little Strange

Over the last week and over the next week or so, I am doing a massive over hall of the website, all the technical stuff!

In an attempt to speed it up, I have removed the old blog from the website, but first I put all the old posts on here, so you can still read all we have got up to on our journey in our business.

With the help of Cosmic, Rockfish and the Heart of South West Business Support, I hope to make a faster more improved website for you to enjoy.

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Mark's next 3 paintings!

Tree 19, 20 and Corn Fields

Over the last couple of months Mark has been busy working on 4 paintings, he tends to switch between them depending on what mood he is in and which one is working best for him at the time.  One he got hooked on and that was the first to be finished.

We don't tend to come up with fancy names for his paintings, I just number them so that when I am selling cards and prints at market I can write in my book quickly between customers which ones I have sold. So I now know this one as Tree 19.

The next one to be finished was an interesting one, because it was a combination of his old style and his new style, which we intend to do prints of in 2 ways, the first being the entire picture and the second will just be a square of the bottom half as we think this will make an interesting image in its own right!

This painting is known as Corn Field

The third painting is also slightly different in that he has included something else with his usual tree, he's not one to paint people and animals as there is a certain amount of accuracy needed in portraits which Mark does not like the constraints attached to them, but I am loving this Stag!

I call this one Tree 20 but Mark calls it Woodland Stag!

I am just waiting for the postman to deliver the new prints of these paintings, unfortunately they came when we were out so they took them away again! So hopefully they will arrive over the next couple of days then I can get them made up ready for the Castle Green market on Saturday.

He started the next painting this weekend and he is promising big surprises with this one!

Mark is also working on setting up his own website, exclusively just for his artwork. I will let you know when its published.

Workshops and Worksheets

This month I have been working on putting together some workshops which will run throughout the year at our studio. I am also working on some worksheets, so if you cant attend one of my workshops (because you live too far away for instance) then you can download a worksheet which will have step by step guide with photos on how to make various things.

At the moment I am concentrating on jewellery making, but we do intend to do art workshops and sheets and mosaics as well as some others, so watch this space!