Pub Sign Sketches

Pub Sign Sketches

Another page, two of two, of sketches relating to pub names and signs. For a booklet available to purchase.

For the Pick Me Up exhibition at Somerset House where I, as guest of collective Hero of Switzerland, will be celebrating all things boozer. Opens this week-end coming, Saturday 20th April and runs 'til 28th April 2013.

Pub Sign Sketches

Pub Sign Sketches

A page, one of two, of sketches relating to pub names and signs. For a booklet available to purchase.

For the Pick Me Up exhibition at Somerset House where I, as guest of collective Hero of Switzerland, will be celebrating all things boozer.

Sack & Sugar

Sack & Sugar

printed by Tilley's Letterpress, Ledbury

A Selling Exhibition of Art-Work by Mr Paul Bommer including his celebrated Delft Tiles and Works as yet un-seen by the World.

Yallops Gallery
59 St. Augustine's St,
Norwich,
NR3 3BG

Sat. 13th and Sun. 14th April
11 am 'til 5 pm
Private View
Friday 12th April
6 'til 9 pm

rsvp: paul@paulbommer.com

A Gift for a Friend

A Gift for a Friend

a personalised cup

My friend and neighbour Mr William Brown had a birthday recently and I customised this cup and vintage french plate for him by way of a present. As well as a gift it was also a good opportunity for me to experiment with firing transfers onto other ceramic surfaces.

Will, who is one half of Old Town clothing, is a keen railway enthusiast and so I have decorated his crocks with a personalised steam-train.

For now I have taken a stylised acorn with my initials within as a maker's mark.

I am very pleased with the results and intend to pursue this line further. Watch this space.

the underside

Will Brown on the foot-plate

an antique french plate, personalised

my 'mark'

Zuleika (screen print)

Zuleika (screen print)

My latest limited edition screen print is Zuleika, painted lady and mistress of the can-can at the Berlin winter-circus. Her body is covered entirely with tattooed images. An hommage to Messrs. George Grosz & Otto Dix.

This two-colour print measures 30 cm across by 42 cm high ( A3 - a standard frame-size) and is a strictly limited edition of 35. Printed on 300 gsm paper the print can be yours (or a loved one's!) for £75 + P&P and is available for purchase here at my Etsy shop and from other reputable outlets.

British Beef (screen print)

British Beef (screen print)

My latest limited edition screen print is a celebration of good British Beef and shows a fine Hereford bull lead, appropriately, by Mr. John Bull, an embodiment of Great Britain (and England in particular) since the early 1700s and a figure in need of some cultural rehabilitation. This handsome pair stand amid the beautiful rolling countryside of Herefordshire on the english-welsh border.

This print measures 42 cm across by 30 cm high ( A3 - a standard frame-size) and is a strictly limited edition of 35. Printed on 300 gsm paper the print can be yours (or a loved one's!) for £75 + P&P and is available for purchase here at my Etsy shop and from other reputable outlets.

My Love in her Attyre

soft pink colourway

My Love in her Attyre doth shew her Witt,
It doth so well become her:
For ev'ry Season she hath dressings fitt,
For Winter, Spring and Summer.
No Beautie shee doth misse,
When all her Robes are on:
But Beauties selfe shee is,
When all her Robes are gone. 

Anonymous

My latest limited edition screen-print is based upon the words of an anonymous Elizabethan madrigal that I stumbled upon as a youth, and inspired by Medieval manuscript illumination and C17th stump-work embroidery.

The print features a pair of lovers in playful pursuit, lost in the branches of a fecund forest ripe with fruits, flowers and foliage. The poem floats in a heart-shaped clearing above them surrounded by a host of birds, bugs and other woodland creatures, whilst cupid, bow and arrow in hand,  looks down from on high.

Available in two colourways, a soft pink and a vibrant green, the print is A3 (42 cm high by 30 across - a standard frame-size) and in a strictly limited edition of 30 per colourway. Printed on 300 gsm paper the print can be yours (or your loved one's!) for £75 + P&P and is available for purchase from my Etsy shop and other reputable outlets.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/122517918/my-love-in-her-attyre-screen-print-pink

https://www.etsy.com/listing/122517773/my-love-in-her-attyre-screen-print-green

vibrant green colourway

           

the lover... (detail, soft pink colourway)

...and his beloved (detail, vibrant green colourway)

Cupid looks on (detail, vibrant green colourway)

the poem (detail, soft pink colourway)