Category: Art and Photography

If you happen to be passing Paul Smith’s Tokyo store, you can browse the Happy London show, an exhibition of new artists and illustrators picked by Paul Smith for embracing "the positive spirit of London in 2007". If you’re not in the area, you can pick up prints of some of the exhibits, including these Adrian Johnson prints.

For an artist picked as an example of 2007, the artwork here is very much reflective of the late 1960s – in fact, it’s not a million miles away from the classic Magic Ball cartoon from that era.

The two prints above are Lionheart and Penny, part of a series of very limited editions of just 20 per print. If you want one, they retail for around £150 each and should be available for delivery in the next two weeks.

See the full range at the Paul Smith website

We like to bring you a bit of culture every now and again by featuring some of our favourite artists. Paul Catherall is one of the UK’s leading linocut print makers, and produces images of iconic landmarks using a palette inspired by commercial art of the 1950s and 60s, and we think his Trellick Tower print is great.

As you may have noticed we like Trellick Tower, we’ve featured it before on mugs and plates, and tea towels so Paul’s print of Trellick Tower really caught our eye.

The print is available in a limited edition of 15 and is 44 x 31cm, and costs a reasonable £250 plus delivery costs, from Clapham Art Gallery.

If Trellick tower doesn’t appeal to you it is still worth checking out Paul’s other prints which feature many London landmarks including the Oxo Tower, the Gherkin, and Centrepoint.

Find out more on the Clapham Art Gallery website.

Not many tattoo artists make the transition into traditional art, but Angelique Houtkamp manages both – and her retro-styled body and wall art are celebrated in The Art Of Angelique Houtkamp, published by Outre Press.

This is the first book on Angelique Houtkamp’s work, featuring images of the artist at work, her old school tattoos, vintage-styled artwork, along with other work from the hand of Houtkamp – including magazines, CD covers, postcards, buttons and clothing.

And if any of it appears, you can buy both limited edition signed prints and original artwork from the excellent Outre Gallery (including the Petronella print above) for very reasonable prices. Certain to be collectables of the future.

Find out more about the book and the artwork at the Outre Gallery website