2013, what’s in store!

2012 saw Love Mee and the design side, Mee Mee Designs complete a lot of personal canvas paintings, gifts and commissions for some wonderful clients, exhibiting at the Long Barn Gallery, having art work displayed on websites, doing some great fairs and meeting lots of new faces, Art on the Prom and another successful day at Felixstowe, but I also got to complete two self publishing projects with an author which have been greatly received in Hampshire into WHS, Waterstone’s and many local bookshops, had an advert in The Sunday Times Culture Magazine, mentioned on radio, designed my first ever e-book and been involved with some awesome projects with publishers like the BBC and Scholastic. Oh as well as designing a logo for the Federation of Children’s Books Conference in Suffolk happening very soon!

My goodness. Top year!

What will 2013 bring I wonder…. things are already bubbling in the pipe lines! Watch this space.

Love Mee xxx

Fun in the sun.

What a busy few weeks! Olympics, SUN SHINE (!), commissions and Art on the Prom preparation, oh and spending lots of quality time with my little boy, doing lots of arty things of course!

I was recently commissioned to paint a rather large canvas for a friend of mine for her dinning room. I took step by step photo’s which are actually really lovely to look back and to see how I progressed and changed the imagery. So here they are and I hope you enjoy them! She was thrilled and have to say it looks a knock out on the large neutral wall in her newly decorated dinning area!

Love Mee xxx

The beginning of the painting. Was a lovely sunny day so got to enjoy painting outside!

Base layer detail.

Getting a little more detail in and changing the shape and texture of the piece.

Detail of the finishing touches!

Detail of the finished painting.

Finished painting, happy days!

 

 

 

 

 

 

An exciting venture with a difference!

Over a year ago I was fortunate to meet a gentleman, Chris Brindle who had the drive and passion to investigate extensively the history of one of his ancestors, a once famous but now slightly forgotten Portsmouth artist R.H.C. Ubsdell.

Chris asked me to work with him as his designer to produce a book cataloguing the discoveries he has made. It is a truly incredible feat which has unearthed Royal connections and that to the amazing Austen family.

The book I have been working on is paced to explore the areas where Ubsdell painted, it plots a journey in Hampshire of the past which Chris has cleverly mixed with the present and what was and now is. It has a stunning collection of imagery, paintings from the hidden collection at the Portsmouth Museums and Records Service, Winchester Cathedral and Hampshire Records Office as well as some from the authors private collection.

Chris has cleverly plotted the route from Portsmouth, up through Hampshire, the Test Valley and out towards Alton and Basingstoke. Ubsdell painted an amazing collection of churches during the 1800’s as well as the most incredibly detailed and painstakingly wonderful miniatures of many influential people including Officers from the Navy based in Portsmouth.

He also unearthed a collection of paintings presented to Royality and connections to the talented Austen family.

It has been an emotional, frustrating, wonderful, obessively passionate journey for Chris and I have been honoured to have designed the book he is self publishing to show the amazing life of his great great great Grandfather.

In just over a weeks time an exhibition of Ubsdell’s work is to start at the Portsmouth City Museum and the first book will be available to show people. It is still a major work in progress and one Chris is happy to develop and change as he discovers so many new things.

I have used my many years of publishing experience to help create this and as Chris states ‘it is a book about pictures and each page is in itself a picture.’

I have had the honor of working with many talented authors and illustrators but this is such a different venture for me and I feel lucky to be a part of it.

If you would like to know more information or to visit the exhibition a website has been created by the very talented team at Amiys Solutions, so please visit

http://www.ubsdell.com

Hope you like it!

Love Mee xxx

The cover design of Volume 1

Love Mee’s been busy!

Hello all,

Well what a busy few weeks! The exhibition at the Town Hall Gallery, Ipswich has been very successful and I was delighted to sell some work! Who ever purchased one of my Love Letters pieces I do hope that it is thoroughly enjoyed!

Love Letters, Valentine.

Here are a few photo’s from the exhibition. I was in the gallery for a morning and met a real selection of people. Was just great to be chatting about art and what we all do.

I spy a little bit of Love Mee!

Eeeek! A piece sold! I love the sight of the wee red dot!

A selection of work by the many exhibitors of ASAT

I have also been a busy bee designing and making a friends wedding invitations! In true Love Mee style. Lots of burgandy and silver hearts donned my table and they were thrilled with the final pieces. More wedding pieces coming up soon!

 

Love Mee xxx

Pay Attention!

Hi all,

Today I am off to deliver Love Mee artwork to The Town Hall Gallery in Ipswich for an exhibition with ASAT, Association of Suffolk Art Teachers.

It is a group of art teachers who in their spare (!) time create pieces and a couple of times a year we have exhibitions to show people our own styles of work.

There are a great variety of works, so if you are in Ippy pop by! It’s free and right in the center on the Cornhill.

Love Mee

Love Letters Art Work

And here is a new style of Love Letters, Black ‘n’ Red.

Framed, Mixed Media in black and silver with a touch of red!
i (heart) u message but can have a personal message too!
£35

Love Mee xxx

What a LOVEly Friday!

Good Morning!

I woke to discover a very exciting message on twitter this morning!

The new edition of suffolkdays.co.uk is now out!

OK, you may be saying but apart from it being a fabulous website with lots of great Suffolk info, compiled by the very talented Linda Mears and her team I was asked if a piece of my artwork, 7 hearts could feature on the cover of the site for this month of love! I jumped at the chance and thrilled with the result!

suffolkdays.co.uk

The detail is from a specially commissioned canvas piece, 1.5m x 1m which was to be placed in a dinning room against a lovely cream wall. 7 was a special number to this couple whom commissioned me and they wanted the richness of reds and golds with the texture I produce in my paintings. They were thrilled with the final result, as was I!

Here are some detailed pictures of the painting which I hope you will like too!

And don’t forget to have a peek at Suffolk Days ezine!

Love Mee xxx

 

7 Hearts

Details from 7 Hearts

Love Letters. New Art work from Love Mee

Hi there,

Been getting very creative with lots of christmas bits and bobs lately for the up and coming craft fairs that will be happening over the next few weeks. But I also had a moment of creating some new Love Mee styled art work which I hope you will like!

Using the Love Mee style I have created a personal 3 dimensional collage of hearts with a little message within them. Each painting can be totally personal to you. The colour size, amount of hearts, your message, Love Mee will tailor to suit!

Prices start from £35 depending on size.

Great gift idea for someone very special or maybe a wedding present with the date of the nuptials, the list is endless!

Enjoy,

Love Mee xxx

New Love Mee gifts!

Hi all!

Well it’s been an interesting summer in our household but I have been busy producing new things to the Love Mee range ready for two BIG craft fairs coming up in the next few weeks.

The first is Sunday 21st August at the lovely Suffolk Food Hall just outside Ipswich which looks to be a fantastic day and all in aid of a very good cause, Camille’s Appeal. The next is the truly wonderful Art on the Prom at Felixstowe in Suffolk on the 4th September. My first event with Love Mee a year ago and my arty chum Charlotte and I are set to return to this great event!

So what have I been up to then you may ask! Well apart from lots of new canvas paintings, cushion making in luscious new fabrics, I have designed a range of nifty peg magnetic memo holders hand painted from wooden pegs and hearts. Painted in the Love Mee style and from acrylics they are a fun and attractive way to keep all those lists and notes together! I have also produced them in a range of colours too. Costing £3.50 for 4 a nice little gift or a treat for yourself!

I have also been busy painting some larger wooden hearts as gift tags to finish off that special gift ! Priced at £1.50 each there is room to write a special message on the reverse and a special keep sake to hang.

Just write your special message onto the reverse!

Hope you like my new things! Would love to hear from you or if you have any queries please get in touch!

Love Mee xxx

Pinch Punch…

first of the month!

If you are thinking of having a freshen up and change at home how about a bespoke canvas?

Happy June!

Love Mee xxx