hello i have been sorting out lots of prints and packing them up to send out to the lovely shops and galleries that stock my prints, i have kept behind a few of each edition and added to my little shop if you would like to see them please click the shop link on the side of the blog.

The navy and putty coloured screen print shown here is the newest print to date, for my new theme ''the sea'' and to celebrate Englands Poets and writers, a wonderful poem by Keats

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern

By John Keats

Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?

Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine? Or are fruits of Paradise
Sweeter than those dainty pies Of venison? O generous food!
Drest as though bold Robin Hood Would, with his maid Marian, Sup and bowse from horn and can.

I have heard that on a day Mine host's sign-board flew away,Nobody knew whither, till
An astrologer's old quill

To a sheepskin gave the story, Said he saw you in your glory, Underneath a new old sign
Sipping beverage divine,

And pledging with contented smack The Mermaid in the Zodiac.

Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern.