Christmas shop open

With the days ticking away to Christmas (only 56 days to go!), we've just opened our gift shop. This year we've got more home decorations than ever before:

Royal Mail strikes

During the Royal Mail strikes, we're offering all Anusha customers in the UK an automatic upgrade to Special Delivery.

Although Royal Mail has removed the Special Delivery next-day guarantee for items posted today and tomorrow (Friday), they have said that they'll restore the guarantee of delivery as soon as they can honour the service promise - which is expected to be by Monday 26th October.

In the meantime, I'm looking at setting up an alternative way of posting out your orders in the future.

Amber Merrick-Potter

Mr Anusha and I popped along to the MA degree show at Bath School of Art and Design on Saturday.

I particularly liked the paintings by Amber Merrick-Potter. She wasn't in the studio when we visited, but I emailed her yesterday, and she told me her website will be up and running within the next few days, and will include a back catalogue of all of her pieces. Prices start at £100.

Here's what she says about her work:

“Utilising the qualities of my chosen materials the interactions, reactions and contingency of household and industrial paints, alongside traditional oil mediums – as referents back to nature, land and landscape. These lands become entwined, within a contemporary notion of romanticism, a re-awakening and to serve as a reminder to not lose out connection to the natural world.”