Artists Art greeting cards

Ann McCay

Ann McCay uses composition, pattern and colour to infuse her paintings with a narrative and to draw out the personality of the subject.

Anna Perlin

Anna Perlin is an award winning painter and print maker working from her Hertfordshire studio. Inspired by the environment around her, the British landscape and people and places she visits are continuing themes in her work. Her vibrant subjects open a window on to the world, whether it is a woodland, garden, beach or street.

Anne-Marie Butlin

Many of Anne Marie's paintings are still-lives with flowers, ceramics, patterned fabrics and various domestic objects in still, calm interiors. She hopes to convey the character of different flowers and the unique feeling they can create in a space; the strong structures and often the sheer joyfulness of their appearance.

Anthea Craigmyle

Painting was always an essential element of Anthea's daily life. The imagery of much of her painting was drawn from childhood memories; neglected churchyards, gardens, and parks she associated with her experiences of the Second World War.

Barbara Peirson

Barbara Peirson is an Essex based artist with a background in the theatre. She is interested in figures and landscapes and likes depicting figures emerging and disappearing from view, glimpses of fleeting moments. Barbara's paintings not only capture the moment but each image also tells its own story. Her pictures are familiar and engaging, and for this reason they make perfect greeting cards.

Carla Vize-Martin

Carla Vize-Martin grew up in the New Forest in the South of England. Over the last ten years she has built her reputation as a leading floral and wildlife artist in the UK.  

Her body of work includes both traditional paintings and, following the lead of such art luminaries as David Hockney, an increasing number of stunning digital works. 

Cheryl Culver PPPS RBA

Cheryl Culver studied Fine Art at Leicester College of Art & Design. She became a member of the RBA in 2003 and the Pastel Society in 2004. She was President of the Pastel Society 2012-2016.

Quiet, unspoiled places are her inspiration, and she shares these with her English Setter and her sketchbook. 

Christopher Corr

Christopher's work is inspired by his travels and his love for colour. India, New York City and London are his current favourites. He says Indian cows are the most beautiful animals but lions and tigers are a close second.

Clae Eastgate

Dog portraiture has a long history in art dating back to Queen Victoria. It is in the continuation of this tradition that Clae Eastgate is making her mark. Clae has the ability to capture both representation and character unique to each of her subjects. Her fluid brushwork and careful observation, finished with a classical realism, has elevated her to one of the UK's foremost portrait painters in canine art.

Daniel Cole SWLA

Daniel Cole’s background and training in Scientific Illustration have lent his landscape paintings an informed sensitivity to the natural world. Having observed and sketched wild birds from an early age, Cole developed his skills through a series of expeditions around the world, studying each region’s indigenous birds and honing his techniques in sketching and painting.

David Brayne RWS

There's a lyrical quality about David Brayne's painting which encourages us to use our imagination. The tender portrayal of women and men as they hold fishing lines, nets and oars, making improbable but graceful shapes.

David Parfitt RI

David is a self-taught watercolour landscape painter and was elected was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water colours in 2011.

‘My aim is to create something which has a sense of place and conveys a feeling of atmosphere but without it looking too contrived or deliberate.’

Deborah Burrow

Contemporary landscape artist Deborah Burrow creates beautiful and tranquil paintings. Inspired by the peace and magic of wild landscapes and nature, she interprets her on-location experiences into colourful and textural paintings of fields, hills, seasons and wildlife.

E C Woodard

Emily Woodard was born and raised on the Fowey estuary in Cornwall. She now operates out of her Waterloo studio and has built a large client base, both in the UK and abroad. A darkly romantic element is woven into the fabric of her paintings. With her light-touch and irreverent humour she creates truly charming pieces, loved by children and adults alike.

Elizabeth McCrimmon SGFA

Elizabeth has always enjoyed visits to the countryside and has a keen interest in wildlife. She works in black and white as well as colour.

Recently she has been inspired by the dogs and their owners that she meets on walks in her local park. She enjoys a love of detail, whether drawing in ink or painting in watercolour and relishes the sense of escapism she experiences while she works. 

Heather Pretorius

Heather takes her inspiration from her time spent in South Africa and her love of the African landscape and wildlife.

Hilke MacIntyre

Hilke MacIntyre was born in Germany and studied architecture in Kiel. After moving to Scotland in 1995 she has concentrated on printing, painting and ceramics, combining a simplified figurative style with bold shapes, strong colours and abstract patterns. Her work is widely exhibited in galleries and has been selected many times for the annual show at the Royal Scottish Academy.

Howard Milton

Howard Milton studied painting under Ruskin Spear, but Graphic Design shaped his career. Milton came to international prominence during the 80s design boom, recognised for a lifetime’s contribution to British design in the Design Council’s Prince Philip award.

But he never stopped painting and the observational skills developed as a designer are evident in his still life and landscape paintings.

Ian Bliss RI

Born in 1930, Ian Bliss takes inspiration from his family and familiar surroundings, his home, his garden and the field by his house. His love of fishing as a boy is the creative force behind his sea paintings. His beautiful and imaginative work evolves slowly over weeks and takes on a dream like quality.

Jane Wilson

Jane is a London born mixed media artist living in Cornwall a stone’s throw from the South West Coast Path. Her daily dog walks and a love of nature provide inspiration for her multilayered paintings.

Janet Brooke RE

Janet is a Brighton based printmaker who has been producing hand printed linocuts and screenprints celebrating some of the more unusual and quirky aspects of the city for a number of years. In her latest series of works she has taken the seaside itself as her inspiration and in particular those ever present new additions to our local seascape, the mysterious wind turbines hovering on the horizon, appearing to alter their size and colour with each passing change in the weather.

Jenni Murphy

Jenni was born in London as one of seven children. She describes her life growing up as simple and beautiful, full of camping, foraging and freedom. Her degree in Visual Communication shines through in the humorous storytelling of her images. 

 Jenni works in acrylic on panel, often using a distorted scale with a viewpoint from above, as if she is looking down on little worlds. She is inspired by her happy childhood and the magic in the everyday. She uses real people and their pets in her work as well as stories told by her social media followers! Her quirky, funny prints have been exhibited in galleries and Affordable Art Fairs.  

Jenny Handley

Jenny Handley enjoys painting flowers, landscapes, and animals. She paints in acrylics, occasionally using collage and soft pastel. She loves using bold colours and aims to capture a feeling in her paintings rather than a direct representation of the subject.

Jenny Wheatley NEAC RWS

Jenny very much is what she does. Her work starts life as plein air painting and drawing and moves on to become a more personal memory and essence and taste of place through her unique use of colour and composition.

Jill Leman PRWS RBA

Jill's starting point for her paintings is colour, her subjects are mainly flowers and still life. Her inspiration comes from the garden, bits and bobs of china, scraps of fabric, and little objects collected or inherited over the years.

John Duffin

John Duffin is an award winning painter and printmaker, his work is in many public and private collections and his images capture the dynamism and energy of modern city life.

Julia Nala

Julia Nala is a collage Artist from Vienna, Austria. A lot of her work is about different forms of escapism and her art focuses around surrealism as she takes pleasure in creating a fictitious world to help the viewer get lost in her art. Julia enjoys using vibrant and uplifiting colours.

Julie Brunn

International award winning animal artist Julie Brunn achieved a fine art degree from Birmingham School of Art in 2000, after which she pursued a career as an animal keeper working mostly with primates. Starting a family gave Brunn the chance to rediscover her painting talents. Combining this with her love for animals and wildlife, Brunn is able to capture the characters and personalities of her subjects in her unique ethereal style.

June Berry NEAC Hon RE RWA RWS

June Berry finds her subjects either in and around her French farmhouse or in the streets and parks of South East London. Her paintings are born from close observation, her experiences and her memories.

Kate Green

Kate Green has got a deep love of literature, nature and history and her work stems from her immediate environment (coastal Norfolk and The Broads) and her imagination. She tries to make work that is decorative, poetic and meaningful.

Lesley McLaren

Lesley McLaren is a Scottish painter living in the borders and taking her inspiration from her beautiful surroundings. She has a visual feast of rolling hills, moorlands and fields brimming with cattle and sheep, hares and wildflowers, each fully deserving its own portrait.

Linda Alexander ROI

Linda Alexander’s oil paintings take their inspiration from nature. She especially enjoys portraying the play of sunlight on flowers, the texture of surfaces and the graceful botanical shapes and structures evident everywhere. Linda trained as an architect but is now a successful, award winning artist whose work is held in private collections worldwide.

Lisa Graa Jensen RI

Lisa Graa Jensen lives and works near Wimbledon Common and has previously lived in rural France. From these places whimsical, vibrant and colourful landscapes evolve; illustrating all things to do with nature and changing seasons. The paintings are full of animals, birds and people in their everyday lives.

Little Ram Studio

Gary and Heather Ramskill are the husband and wife team behind Little Ram Studio. Both artists and printmakers they specialise in producing linocut prints, both open ended and limited edition little pieces of art. Inspiration for their work comes from the local countryside surrounding their North Yorkshire studio.

Louise Rawlings

Louise Rawlings lives and works in Sutton Coldfield. Most of her ideas originate during her early morning dog walk. She takes her inspiration from the changing seasons and everyday observations of the people and dogs she meets and from her regular trips to the British coastline – North Wales being a particular favourite.

Marcel Gatteaux

Since travelling to Provence for the first time in 1991, Marcel has been captivated by the light and colour of the Mediterranean region. When his paintings started to sell in that year he devoted his time to painting and he has continued to travel frequently to the area for his inspiration.

Martin Leman RBA RWS

Cat on the Mat was one of Martin's first paintings. His iconic cats are mainly commissioned portraits of much loved pets.

Max Angus SWLA

Max Angus’ work is often inspired by the everyday places she enjoys walking. Limited detail is captured with a pencil in a sketchbook. Back in the studio, the sketches are put together to create a composition that represents the movement of the subject, the weather or what she can remember of that time.

Melissa Launay

Melissa Launay lives and works in London. Her works are characterised by their luxurious colours and intricate detail. Launay's paintings explore the themes of curiosity and wonder, conjuring dreamlike spaces into which one can escape.

Melissa Scott-Miller NEAC RBA RP

Melissa Scott-Miller paints mainly urban landscapes, specialising in London where she was born and still lives, as well as interiors and portraits of people in their surroundings. She is fascinated by light and pattern and texture, particularly on bricks and slates of London buildings and the flora and fauna found in city gardens and parks.

Melissa likes to work outside, and sometimes from windows, where she can paint larger views. Often favouring unusual viewpoints and with close ups of bricks and leaves in the foreground. She paints with very small brushes, putting great care and attention into each section and generally not going back to it.

Michael Whittlesea NEAC RWS

Michael Whittlesea describes painting as unpredictable. Without having a clear vision of the end result he lets whatever develops, just happen.

Mychael Barratt PPRE Hon RWS

Mychael Barratt was born in Toronto, Canada but thinks of himself as a Londoner since arriving for what was meant to be a two-week stay twenty years ago. He has that immigrant's zeal for his adopted home and his narrative pieces include local settings that have a personal resonance. His work that pilfers from the history of art is humorous but is always done in the spirit of genuine admiration and homage.

Parastoo Ganjei

The loose and expressive brush marks in Parastoo's paintings give them energy and movement. Parastoo's paintings are the product of a fertile imagination, the images having developed over the years from constant observation and powerful impressions which she expertly commits to canvas. Her pieces have been exhibited extensively throughout the UK, Europe and USA.

Rebecca Howard

Rebecca Howard initially trained as an illustrator at Falmouth College of Arts in Cornwall and has been working full time as a fine artist since 2009. With a love for natural landscapes and an eye for pattern and colour, her work aims to entice the viewer to develop a deeper connection with nature.

Richard Allen SWLA

Richard Allen lives in Essex, where estuaries and marshes teeming with waders and wildfowl inspire him on his early morning dog walks. He is attracted to birds with bold plumage such as Avocets and Puffins, and the patterns in water, mud and sky, as well as the smaller garden birds. This is reflected in his dynamic linocuts and watercolours.

Royal Society of British Artists RBA

We have collaborated with the Royal Society of British Artists to produce this popular range of greeting cards. All royalties from the sale of these cards go to support the RBA, with thanks to the artists who have donated their images.

Sally Anne Fitter

Pattern, colour and texture all play a large part in Sally Anne’s work, a throwback from her past as a textile designer and ceramicist. She uses collage and gold leaf in her paintings to create a surface with a mosaic feel. She uses techniques of layering and scraping back to create texture that results in vibrant, luminous paintings.

Samere Tansley

Samere's aesthetic inspiration has been drawn from the visual richness of the Jamaican environment and people and reflects the abundance of the land and the sharp contrasts of light.

Sue Campion RBA

Sue Campion is a London born artist living and working in Shropshire. Her paintings are vibrant, colourful and atmospheric. They capture wonderfully the ever changing moods of nature on landscape, from the Shropshire Hills to the warm tones of Southern Europe, from portraits and flowers to animals and birds. She is a prolific artist and her work is collected worldwide. Her shows in London are eagerly awaited and always a success.

Susan Bower RBA ROI

Susan's paintings portray an unconventional tableaux of life. Over time she has developed her own painterly interpretation of witty observations from her experience of family life. Her naive style of painting was influenced originally by fellow Yorkshire artist William Selby, who instructed her for three years, enabling her to develop her own individual style.

Susie Perring

Susie's graphic design experience has strongly influenced her art. She works exclusively in aquatints for their wonderful tonal contrast and prints with multiple plates, which give velvety textures and rich colours.

Suzanne Breakwell

Suzanne adores paper as a medium and loves the beauty and simplicity of creating her pieces from a medium that is so widely used by so many on a daily basis. It is the potential of paper and what it might become which sparks her imagination.

Tom Homewood

Tom Homewood is an established Sussex based artist whose simple modest drawings and abstract landscapes have reproduced beautifully as greeting cards.