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This letterpress eco-friendly greeting card began as an illustration – then became a hand carved linocut – then a linoprint and finally went through our letterpress platen a number of times, phew!
Florrie is our much loved, beautifully restored treadle based letterpress platen and was built in 1872.
This card is wonderfully tactile as the image is de-bossed into the soft, luxurious tree-free card.
The details…
300gsm / 110lb tree-free card
The card is 100% cotton, made from
recovered cotton fibres
Left blank on the inside for your own lovely message
The envelope has been custom made using
100% post consumer waste
Card size when folded – 10.9cms by 14cms
All my products are designed, printed and packaged
by The Pear in Paper, Donegal, Ireland
We have a very strict plastic free ethos in our studio (and at home!)
All card and print designs ©2021
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Size -12mm x 12mm
Greeting cards – prints taken from original felted art pieces
Alison Hunter is an artist from Sligo, Ireland. Alison’s work is inspired both by the Irish built and natural landscape. She is drawn to exploring everyday objects and instilling new life into them through the use of traditional and contemporary techniques. Found broken tableware is a source of inspiration for Alison as it acts as a reminder of the Irish vernacular heritage and past. By creating a new function for the plate as an art piece, old memories are preserved in the process while new memories take root in its new form.
“I create art works through the interpretation and re-imagining of patterns on found plates. Building on its original form and exaggerating elements, I combine contrasting textures of found plate pieces and soft wool fibres using traditional wet felting and contemporary needle felting techniques”
She also creates a series of original landscapes and seascapes, Irish wildlife insect collection and abstract pieces using Irish tweed and wool
Alison exhibits her work nationally. In 2016 her work was selected for the RDS Design and Craft Awards Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland. She holds a BA (Hons) Degree in Heritage Studies and a Diploma in Textiles and is a member of both the Design & Craft Council of Ireland and Made in Sligo.
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Marie Phelan was born in County Galway, has lived in the UK and now lives in County Wexford. She combines photography with painted backgrounds that draw out and enhance the characteristics of her home-grown flowers and plants. She has an Associate distinction from the Irish Photographic Federation, is a member of Wexford Camera Club and exhibits regularly in Wexford, for example during the opera festival and at the Wexford Arts Centre cafe. As an enthusiastic gardener she has her pick of subject material, and with an eye to future images, grows unusual and colourful plant varieties. Her painted backgrounds are achieved using watercolour and mixed media. While a background is ‘oozing and in a state of flux’, she judges the moment to place her flower or plant, and captures it with a macro lens.
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Lucy Doyle has painted and exhibited in Ireland for the past 30 years, having moved to her studio in Avoca, County Wicklow, soon after graduating from Sheffield Art College in the UK. She creates figurative and still life canvases richly painted in thick impasto oil paint. Her paintings explore the beauty and impact of colour. Lucy’s work can be found in public and private collections including those of Trinity College Dublin and the Office of Public Works.
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Mary O’Connor was born in Wexford. She studied visual communication and 3D design at DIT in Dublin, and painting at Chelsea College of Art and in New Zealand. She has lived in Belize and (for 11 years) Kazakhstan, a place of vast landscapes and infinite white winters; during her time there she published two books of photojournalism on central Asia. She paints in mixed media, often on a large scale. Her work features in private and public collections including those of the Office of Public Works and the Environmental Protection Agency. She is a member of Black Church Print Studio.
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Bridget Flinn attended the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and the Royal College of Art in London, where she studied natural history illustration. After graduating she worked as an illustrator.
She is now a full time painter, working from her studio in Sandymount in Dublin. Her subjects include landscape, life drawing and still life. Her work has featured in Royal Hibernian Academy and Royal Ulster Academy exhibitions.
www.bridgetflinn.ie
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Marie Phelan was born in County Galway, has lived in the UK and now lives in County Wexford. She combines photography with painted backgrounds that draw out and enhance the characteristics of her home-grown flowers and plants. She has an Associate distinction from the Irish Photographic Federation, is a member of Wexford Camera Club and exhibits regularly in Wexford, for example during the opera festival and at the Wexford Arts Centre cafe. As an enthusiastic gardener she has her pick of subject material, and with an eye to future images, grows unusual and colourful plant varieties. Her painted backgrounds are achieved using watercolour and mixed media. While a background is ‘oozing and in a state of flux’, she judges the moment to place her flower or plant, and captures it with a macro lens.
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Irish art critic Aidan Dunne described Rod Coyne’s paintings as ‘boldly designed, decisive studies of the sea’. Taking into account the sky, land, light and weather, Rod says he aims to capture ‘the place, the day and the time…as accurately as I can in a single sitting’.
Rod was born in Dun Laoghaire, and studied at Cork’s Crawford College of Art. After ten years painting in Dusseldorf, he came back to Ireland in 1999 and set up a studio/gallery in the Vale of Avoca in County Wicklow, where he paints and teaches.
He has exhibited internationally and his work features in public and corporate collections. Celebrity owners of his work include Marian Keyes, Eddie Jordan and Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Belfast-born artist Neal Greig studied fine art to postgraduate level at Edinburgh College of Art. He has had one-man shows around Ireland and America. His work is in public and private collections and has drawn support from grant-awarding bodies including the Arts Council and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Neal has two studios: one in a barn next to his farmhouse on the edge of the Castle Leslie estate in Glaslough, County Monaghan, and the Bath House Studio on Coney Island in County Sligo. He paints in the open air and offers painting workshops at both studios.
www.nealgreig.com
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Lucy Doyle has painted and exhibited in Ireland for the past 30 years, having moved to her studio in Avoca, County Wicklow, soon after graduating from Sheffield Art College in the UK. She creates figurative and still life canvases richly painted in thick impasto oil paint. Her paintings explore the beauty and impact of colour. Lucy’s work can be found in public and private collections including those of Trinity College Dublin and the Office of Public Works.
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Each card is imagined, designed and created in Ireland by me, Lainey, with love & laughter at the core, designed to give you a little giggle and a definite ‘feel good factor’ every time you see them.
Packed with a mix of intelligent wit, inspiration, happiness and fun, each design is created using a mix of standout typography, creative design features, with a ‘little’ edge and a contemporary feel.
Quality products and design are in LAINEY K’s DNA and is at the core of everything I create. Here is some more information you’ll be wanting to know about the products:
– Cards are 130mm x 130mm and printed on premium, uncoated 300gsm card, and individually packed in a cello bag with kraft envelope.
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George Callaghan was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He studied at Belfast College of Art and worked as a commercial artist, designer and art director at agencies including McCann Erickson and Leo Burnett. He describes the style of his art as ‘sophisticated naive’. He has been creative in many directions, including being a harp maker and player of the Celtic harp, and has lived in South Africa, Australia, Tasmania and France. His autobiography is titled The Last Minstrel.
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Kevin McAleenan was born in Banbridge, County Down. He studied art at the University of Ulster and graduated in 1985. Kevin’s paintings – ‘a response to a way of life slowly fading in a changing Ireland’ – focus on creating striking colour relationships, which drift towards the abstract. His images are distilled into strong, interlocking colour blocks.
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Dublin-born Bernadette Madden studied painting at Ireland’s National College of Art and Design (NCAD). She works mainly in batik (wax resist on linen) and screenprint on paper.
She has had solo exhibitions internationally, and her work features in collections owned by the Arts Council, the National Museum of Ireland, and Trinity College Dublin, among others.
She has been a member of the NCAD board and of Ireland’s Cultural Relations Committee.
www.bernadettemadden.ie
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Marie Phelan was born in County Galway, has lived in the UK and now lives in County Wexford. She combines photography with painted backgrounds that draw out and enhance the characteristics of her home-grown flowers and plants. She has an Associate distinction from the Irish Photographic Federation, is a member of Wexford Camera Club and exhibits regularly in Wexford, for example during the opera festival and at the Wexford Arts Centre cafe. As an enthusiastic gardener she has her pick of subject material, and with an eye to future images, grows unusual and colourful plant varieties. Her painted backgrounds are achieved using watercolour and mixed media. While a background is ‘oozing and in a state of flux’, she judges the moment to place her flower or plant, and captures it with a macro lens.
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Walter Bernardini had a long career in advertising. Born and brought up in Glasgow, he started work there at the age of 15. His natural artistic ability together with a keen sense of creativity enabled him to produce much award winning work. He moved to Dublin in 1963, and in 1966 was invited to form a graphic design consultancy as its principal designer and illustrator.
Now retired, he can devote more time to the personal painting and drawing that took a back seat during his career. He works in watercolour, gouache, acrylics, pastels and oils.
His work has been exhibited at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Academy and is held in many private and corporate collections.
