The Bristol Shop Blog

In the next of our Meet The Maker Series we meet Nick Church, a Bristol based artist who does beautiful things with pen and ink point art Hi Nick! Please tell us a bit about yourself and what you do. I am an artist specializing in pen and ink pointillism, using tiny dots to build up intricate detail. What inspires you? My background in Civil Engineering provides much inspiration, combined with taking a more unusual view of local everyday scenes whose beauty we overlook. What do you feel makes your work unique? The effect produced by my fine work is...

Do you know someone who would love a gift from The Bristol Shop but aren't sure exactly what do buy for them? As of today you can now give the gift of choice with The Bristol Shop Gift Cards. The Bristol Shop Gift Cards are available in £10, £25, £50 and £100. They can be used as part payment towards a higher priced item, multiple gift cards can be used to make a purchase and the balance is valid for 12 months! Gift cards are emailed to you immediately, you can then print them to pop inside a greetings card...

Now that the Bristol Shop has been up and running for a month, we thought it might be nice to start taking a look at some of the products that we have, and seeing what it is about Bristol that has inspired them. With that in mind, first up are our collection of Clifton Suspension Bridge Art Prints. No surprise that one of the most iconic bridges in the UK serves as inspiration for so many artists here in Bristol, especially when it is set in such a stunning natural gorge. The Clifton Suspension Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom...

You love Bristol, we love Bristol...and the city is absolutely chock full of wonderful things made by lovely people. So if you are wondering where to go to find the ideal Bristol gift, or a little something for the Bristol person in your life, we'd like to introduce The Bristol Shop! The Bristol Shop is the city's first ecommerce site to act as a retail platform solely for merchandise, goods and art work produced in, representative of or supplied by Bristol businesses. The Bristol Shop is launching on Tuesday 29th January, and will feature over 350 products from more than...