First Night Design | Hot Air Balloon Voyage Cushion #Sold!

It’s been a while since I aired Hot Air Balloon Voyage in any form so I’m delighted to tell you I’ve sold a cushion.

Hot Air Balloon Voyage Cushion © First Night Design

Available on various products at the following galleries:
Redbubble
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK
Fine Art America [14 fulfillment centers in 5 countries]
Saatchi Art

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Queer British Art, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1 | reviewdonkey

Queer British Art at the Tate is a fascinating exhibition, it is more of a history of homosexuality in Britain told through artistic pieces. Some of the exhibits aren’t very queer, until you …

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The Grand Tour Gift Tags | Zazzle

This is one of my earliest montage designs, created at a time when Zazzle didn’t do gift tags. Now they do!
Media: Matte

We’re not saying the presentation of your gift is as important as the gift itself, but no one wants a present wrapped in old newspaper. Add a touch of elegance to all your gifts with beautifully crafted personalised gift tags. Along with personalised wrapping paper and customised ribbons, your gift will be the one they can’t wait to rip open.

• Dimensions: 3.5″l x 2″w
• Sold in set of 10
• Printed on 120 lb. 17.5 point thick luxe matte paper, a soft paper with eggshell texture and a smooth finish
• Pre-punched hole
• Choice of 4 colours of uncut twine
• Made in U.S.A. with 30% post-consumer content

Source: The Grand Tour Gift Tags | Zazzle

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Royal Geographical Society Collage Print | Zazzle #Sold!

Paper Type: Value Poster Paper (Matte)

Your walls are a reflection of your personality. So let them speak with your favorite quotes, art, or designs printed on our posters! Choose from up to 5 unique paper types and several sizes to create art that’s a perfect representation of you.

• 45 lb., 7.5 point thick poster paper
• Matte finish with a smooth surface
• Economical option that delivers sharp, clean images with stunning color and vibrancy
• More paper types available under “Paper Options”
• Add a premium quality frame as an essential accessory

Source: Royal Geographical Society Collage Print | Zazzle

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Flora Annie Steel | stuartshieldgardendesign

Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 – 12 April 1929) was an English writer who was noted for writing books set in British India or otherwise connected to it.   Personal life She was born Flora Ann…

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First Night Design | Waiting to Travel #Art Repost

FROM THE ARCHIVE April 2015

Waiting to Travel © Sarah Vernon

I’ve been playing at Grand Central Station. Using a photograph of the concourse by Nicolai Berntsen and a red sky background by Breno Machado, both from Unsplash, I added a texture from Kim Klassen to create a painted effect which reminds me a little of L S Lowry. I should be so talented!

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“The long days seduce all thought away…

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People : Violet Trefusis . Vita’s True Love . | stuartshieldgardendesign

Violet Trefusis (née Keppel; 6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972) was an English writer and socialite. She is chiefly remembered for her lengthy affair with the poet Vita Sackville-West, which the two women continued after their respective marriages to men. Trefusis wrote novels and non-fiction works, both in English and French.

The affair was featured in novels by both parties, in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography, and in many letters and memoirs of the period, roughly 1912–1922. Many are preserved at Yale University Library. Trefusis also inspired other fiction and was featured as a pivotal character in these novels, including “Lady Montdore” in Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate and…

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First Night Design | Waiting to Travel

Waiting to Travel © Sarah Vernon

I’ve been playing at Grand Central Station. Using a photograph of the concourse by Nicolai Berntsen and a red sky background by Breno Machado, both from Unsplash, I added a texture from Kim Klassen to create a painted effect which reminds me a little of L S Lowry. I should be so talented!

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“The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.”
― Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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Available at the following galleries:
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Zazzle US tba
Zazzle UK tba
Fine Art America
Fine Art England
Saatchi Art tba

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People : Rex Whistler, Artist Designer And Illustrator, When He Was A soldier He Carried His Brushes Hanging Off His Tank In A Bucket ….

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Reginald John “Rex” Whistler (24 June 1905 – 18 July 1944) was a British artist, designer and illustrator.

Biography

Reginald John Whistler was born in Britain on 24 June 1905, at Eltham, Kent, the son of Harry and Helen Frances Mary Whistler. In May 1919 he was sent to boarding school at Haileybury, where he showed a precocious talent for art, providing set designs for play productions and giving away sketches to prefects in lieu of “dates” (a punishment at Haileybury, similar to “lines” whereby offenders are required to write out set lists of historical dates).

After Haileybury the young Whistler was accepted at the Royal Academy, but disliked the regime there and was “sacked for incompetence”. He then proceeded to study at the Slade School of Art, where he met Stephen Tennant, soon to become one of his best friends and a model for some of the figures in his…

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