The Bristol Shop Blog — Artist Interviews
Meet The Bristol Shop Family: Amy Hutchings
“I am always open to new experiences as I walk around the city. Inspiration can be as simple as the way shadows fall across the path, the interplay of colours in my immediate environment or the contrast between the natural and manmade.”
Bristol Artist Interview: Jenny Urquhart
Jenny is one of The Bristol Shop’s most prolific artists, she currently has 58 products listed with us, including beautiful, colourful works of art, most of which have a strong Bristolian theme, coasters & placemats and even a Bristol colouring book! Recently Viv Kennedy caught up with her to find out more about her inspirations, practice and latest news. I am told that you didn’t pick up a paint brush until 2010, I’m not sure I believe that’s true... (laughs) Oh dear, that sounds like such a boast doesn’t it? I did GCSE art but hadn’t painted anything since then;...
Meet the Maker with Nick Church at The Bristol Shop
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...