Category: Art and Photography

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you will know that last year’s surprise print success was the Keep Calm And Carry On poster. Originally available as a poster for under £4, it was reissued as an art print – and just kept on selling. Now, the people behind that have a new wartime image on offer – the Loose Lips Might Sink Ships print.

Probably lacking the same double-edged meaning as the original, this one is still eye-catching and quirky – and might be good to hang on the office wall if you have a gossip problem!

Printed in an ocean blue colour onto soft recycled paper and sized at 60cm x 42cm, it retails online for £18 plus postage. And it is limited to just 100 copies.

Find out more at the Keep Calm website

Keiiichi Tanaami is a new name to me, but he’s been producing pop art-style art in Japan since the 1960s – and is still doing it today.

Tanaami’s art has been championed of late by Paul Smith, who has exhibited his work and is now selling some limited edition prints – including this Kamon print, which is typical of the artist’s work.

Measurements as framed 79xm by 58cm by 3cm with the image printed on Japenese Echizen Washi paper in a limited edition of just 30. You can buy it framed for £950.

Find out more at the Paul Smith website

Besides his art, Andy Warhol will also be remembered for his words about fifteen minutes of fame. In the modern world obsessed with reality television and celebrities famous for nothing very much, he is looking like a prophet. Warhol’s immortal words are now available as prints, featuring a quotation from the artist over a picture of him tinted a suitably pop art colour.

As well as the legendary quotation on fame, there are others from the great man, including the equally sage “art is what you can get away with” and the decadent “but I always say one’s company, two’s a crowd, and three’s a party’”

Priced £16.95 each, Bloomsbury Store has seven to choose from.

One for the Shag collectors out there, a new print entitled An Extraordinary Evening.

It’s typical Shag – a cool party in a cool 60s-style house, with a bit of tiki and a couple of cats sneaked in for good measure. The print is a 13-colour serigraph, sized at 19 x 39 inches and limited to 200.

Sure to sell through fast, you can order one now for $295 (around £150).

Find out more at the Shagmart website