Royal Ulster Academy Annual Show

I was very chuffed that my work 'Irish Lights' was selected for this years Royal Ulster Academy annual exhibition.  It's up in the Ulster Museum at the moment and you can see the exhibition until the start of January.  Even more exciting that being picked to be in the exhibition is the fact that my book has been sold!  I couldn't believe it when my mum phoned me to say she'd seen a red dot by my piece when she was in looking around the exhibition.  Woohoo! There is no other word for it really.

Detail of the book

Another close up

How the book is displayed in the exhibition.

Cheesy pick of me at the opening of the exhibition with someone looking through my book in the background!

Shop Update....

I have finally gotten round to taking photographs of some of my new prints and have now got them up on the shop.  Do take a look.....

You can also buy them in person at the Yard Gallery in Holywood.

Website redo....

Well after a lots of fiddling with images and pages the shop is all sparkly and new!

Rather than have a separate website and shop I’ve integrated them all into the one site so hopefully it makes much more sense and is easier to navigate.  At the moment I only have my cards and notebooks available to buy as I am re photographing all of my prints so you can get a better idea of what they would look like framed up and on your wall.

At the moment the address is http://longshotpress.bigcartel.com but I am in the middle of changing it so it will be the old longshotpress.co.uk name.  I’ll let you know when I get it change over but in the mean time you can visit the new site here.

On top of all the visual changes postage to the United Kingdom is now COMPLETELY FREE! So there’s no excuse not to buy that card you’ve had your eye on! *For those in the rest of the world postage rates are still very reasonable!*

Oh and I’ve added lots of fancy social networking buttons as well so if you want to like, tweet or pin me, be my guest!

Craft Fest 2012

sorry for the lack of interesting posts lately.  I’ve been so busy working at the BBC story fest sessions and getting ready for Craft Fest I haven’t had a chance to get all the lovely posts I’m planning done!  I’ll get there next week I promise!  This weekend though I’m taking part in Craft Fest at Castle Ward in Strangford.  Its the second year I’m doing it and I’m really looking forward to it.  When I did it last year it was the first proper big craft fair that I’d done and it really inspired me  - meeting the customers and seeing what sort of things the were looking for and also meeting the other exhibitors, it really made me think about the sort of things I’m making.  

So if you’re free this weekend do try and head down and take a look.  There will be loads of different stands as well as workshops and demonstrations and on top of all that you can take a tour round the big house - where there is also an exhibition of work going on -  My book Until Further Notice  will be part of the exhibition.

Hopefully see you there!