On Sunday my good friend Nicole and I attempted to to play at market stall sellers at The Backyard Market, off Brick Lane. It really is harder than you may think. In my very limited experience it’s easier to shift a used toilet brush and an odd sock at a bootsale than it is to sell a limited edition hand-pulled 4-colour print at the bargain price of £35 at a ‘trendy’ east-end market. As the day went on the phrase ‘If praise were pounds’ became more and more poignant. Lots of ladies loved Nicole’s teacup candles they cooed and ooohed at them but a great deal of persuasion was needed to make the sale, likewise with my prints, lots and lots of long conversations but sadly not as many sales. Still, it was an enjoyable experience, the highlight of the day was being talent-spotted by a Korean magazine, the incident kindly captured by Nicole. All in all we concluded that we won’t be making a career out of market trading, market sellers we salute you.

About a year ago now my two lovely friends Nicholas and Claire bought me a very well-thought-out birthday present – a day’s screenprinting workshop. I really haven’t ever thanked them for giving me the impetus to actually do it. So here is my first series, of ‘old things’, a year on (it’s taken me a while!) You can buy them here.

So, to explain a bit more, I love misprints, they are happy accidents, each one unique, a graphic masterpiece in their own right. They shouldn’t be disgarded they should be celebrated! So, with this in mind I’ve packaged each spot-on print in it’s own misprint from the same series. All prints are hand-pulled silkscreen prints on acid-free paper.

UPDATE *I’ll be at Spitalfields this Sunday 30th May, come and see me!*