Dear Friends and Clients, hope everyone is doing good!
Just back from a month work holiday in Cambodia. I gifted myself an art sabbatical, lucky me, was excellent to have time to paint and really get into the flow.
We did the islands and a bit of beach luxury but spent most of the time in Siem Reap, found a fab hotel with space enough and an empty rooftop balcony opposite, so set up my studio with parasols and got cracking, hopefully you’ll love this spring/summer which I will present toward the end of January.
The hotel in Siem had a lovely house dog called Seiko, golden Labrador, gentle soul, which helped enormously as we lost our lovely doggy Chief this year in June. And I realise that I I’ve been a little quiet since then. Chief was the special one, broken hearts we still get caught out most days. Seiko the labrador by my side as I was working there helped a great deal.
Cambodia is a deeply inspiring place in so many ways: visually, spiritually, people are amazingly kind. Getting out of the UK in November divine.
Themes include draped placed stripes, neat summer hound’s tooth and argyle, collage à la Cecil Touchon. Iconic print classics, inspired by doyenne Delaunay, guru Girard, fun poster art messaging of Cyrk. Contrasting materialism surface textures, natural smushing and staining of nature. Florals are an interesting challenge to make new with gunpowder explosions and pretty distortions.
We went to the Serpentine gallery before our studio Xmas party to see Peter Doig House of Music, uplifting beautiful resonant colour and sound deep and layered.
X Eileen and the DU Team x Happy Holidays and see you in 2026 : )
Paris Create is February 1st and 2nd.
Premier Vision, February 3rd 4th and 5th
Munich on the 27th Jan also by appointment.
Como Crea 23rd-24th March
P.S.If you have friends or ex-colleagues who work in other brands and might not know about us, please put us in touch. There will be a thank you gift if you hook us up and we start up with a new client, our prints are special. Once people find us they love us !
P.P.S. In case you’re wondering the picture of me and rodent is an African long-eared rat called Agnes trained to detect explosives in landmines : )