New work, New Shop, New Year!

It certainly has been a while since I wrote any updates on my blog so I’d like to thank you for coming to take a look.

I’m committed to making 2024 all about a year of creativity and I’m very excited by the various plans I’m currently hatching up. I’m signed up to whole series of amazing courses over the year, which will definitely get my mojo back on, so watch this space for new work to come. If you’d like to follow along and see a bit more behind the scenes of what I’m doing and how, then don’t forget to come and find me over on Instagram I’d love to see you there.

In the meantime, I’ve been going through old work and giving it a new lease of life mostly in the form of surface pattern designs. And, I have a new Spoonflower shop in the pipeline for any makers, quilters or interior designers among you. I’ll make an announcement here when it’s up and running.

I’ve also finally got around to opening a print on demand shop at Society6 where I’ve listed a few of my current illustrations and designs for sale on products, from homewares and stationary to mobile phone cases. You can see a few of the designs I’ve listed below, if you click on the image you should find it takes you directly to my Society6 shop.

For now though, I hope you are having a wonderful New Year and are managing to achieve some of the goals that you’ve set yourself for the year ahead.

Woodland Birds surface pattern design by artist and illustrator Susie Batsford

Into the Wild surface pattern design by artist and illustrator Susie Batsford

Mermaids Beneath The Waves surface pattern design by artist and illustrator Susie Batsford

Mats Bootcamp February Mini - Magnolia's

I have always adored Chinoiserie, so much so that I would love to create my own. Imagine how utterly elated I was then, when I discovered that for this months mini exercise in Bootcamp my mission was to paint magnolia’s.

I decided for that reason that I’d like to keep my flowers for this assignment relatively representational and I thoroughly enjoyed getting back into my watercolour paints, after several months of learning new processes in the textile print room at college. I also decided to try two new colours that have been sitting in my palette all this time and yet I never use them!

Admittedly, I probably don’t have time to develop this into a Chinese style wallpaper design just yet, but most certainly have visions of coming back to it in future months.

Anthropomorphic Woodland Animal Adventures...

Hello dear readers, I can't believe over a month has passed since my last post.  Time flies and so much has been happening, but I'll update you with that sometime soon.  In the meantime, I have begun a 'photography for makers' class with the lovely Emily Quinton at https://www.makelight.io/workshops/

My woodland animals have been getting quite involved in the photoshoots!