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Today, we are thrilled to have launched all NEW limited edition prints from a selection of our established artist, including Gary Walton, Nicky Litchfield, Dominique Salm, Sarah Jackson, and Chris Ross Wiliamson.

We have some gorgeous gift ideas to show Dad you care. Why not brighten his day with a beautiful piece of artwork, or stylish accessory to enhance his home?

Many of you will be familiar with the Scandinavian concept of Hygge (pronounced ‘hoo-guh’), the Danish notion of feeling contentment, comfort and well-being as a way of surviving the (mainly) winter months. Think curling up with a good book and cup of hot chocolate, relaxing in peaceful solitude by the fire, or enjoying the laid-back company of cherished friends and family and we’re heading in the direction of experiencing that Hygge feeling. 

In 1565 he painted Winter Landscape with Ice-skates and Bird-trap, depicting an icy village scene with bare-branched trees, snow-topped cottages surrounding the central illustration of peasants skating on the ice. The piece is said to be an allegory for the dangers and temptations of human existence - with the heavily featured elements of ‘skating on ice’ and bird traps symbolising the uncertainty of life and its many hazards, respectively. Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a pioneer of this style of painting and what is now known as genre painting.

Emerging from the 1916 Dada art movement, ‘Surrealism’ (meaning ‘new reality’) continued to expand the artistic comment on the ‘absurdity’ of world events of the time (namely World War I) and that they were the result of ‘excessive rational thinking’. The movement sought to unburden the human mindset of taboos and societal norms in order to allow the expression of inner ‘truth’ and to experience freedom.

Who are your biggest artistic influences? When I went to art college, my outlook evolved, and my new heroes were people like Ralph Steadman, Gerald Scarfe & Grey Jolliffe. (I erred toward the more 'cartoony' side of things). More recently I have been inspired by artists such as David Shrigley, Sam Toft & Gary Bunt.