Foxy fever!

New! New! New!

We've now got a whole range of lovely fox and cubs products for sale in our Lush Designs shop in Greenwich. Very soon they'll be up on our website so all you faraway folk can buy them too.

Here's me drinking my tea from my fox mug.

Naomi Ryder,

What is this mysterious, gauzy thing of beauty? Why! Its the National Gallery, exquisitely rendered in stitch.
Introducing another of our talented friends...
Oh how we love the work of Naomi Ryder. Was ever there such a talented needlestress? The fluid confidence of her drawing! The accuracy of her human observation! No wonder she's so busy and important. www.naomiryder.co.uk

Behold! The work of Stewart Helm

Stewart Helm is a most extraordinarily prolific artist. He draws quite obsessively and his works are so numerous that in one exhibition his watercolour drawings were stacked up in piles in a glass case, each stack being a couple of feet high. Each of these drawings was a work of perfection in itself.
Stewart's work is exquisite in its intricacy and is like a journey through the body including the mind - both cheerful and sinister at the same time.
This genius happens to be one of our dearest friends. You have to look very carefully to drink in the detail of these tiny naked men, lying about like a tray of oven chips.

Pivotal persons 2 : Ken and Ron (Adtec)

This Lush Designs lamp shade depicts Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show and features Bill himself with legendary sharp-shooter Annie Oakley, and Chief Sitting Bull, all watched by Queen Victoria (they're round the other side)
Our lamp shades are screen printed by these two marvellous brothers, Ken and Ron Servant. They work on an industrial scale in this railway arch in Deptford, very near our studio - but don't seem to mind working with small-fry like us. They print our lampshade-panels and all our birch ply-wood products.

What did we do before we found them?! We wore ourselves to an inky frazzle and made a big mess in the studio, thats what.

If you ever need anything screen-printed onto wood, canvas, paper, card, metal, plastic call Ken and Ron at Adtec. Tel. 020 8691 4778 or email sales@adtecgraphics.co.uk

Stick em up

Another Jefferson Smith photograph. This time its the Monkey lampshade in front of a pale grey wall decorated with the Stalky Pods vinyl we have recently introduced to our range of products. You can but these in our Lush Designs shop in Greenwich or email us at info@lushlampshades.co.uk. They'll soon be available from our website along with the other wall graphics.

Birds

Below is a picture of one of our Lampshades - its the mermaid design which depicts the evolution of the mermaid in the primordial swamp. The dangling birds are one of Lush Designs' most successful products - with their elegant laser-cut (by the pivotal Les Grayson) wings. Cheerfully coloured yet inscrutably expressionless, made of screen printed birch ply. A fantastic gift for someone you don't want to spent TOO much money on. I you want to get one to dangle decoratively at Christmas you can order from www.lushlampshades.co.uk.

If you think this is a rather gorgeous photograph then its because it was taken by the brilliant Jefferson Smith www.jeffersonsmith.co.uk. he's so talented. Sigh.

Pivotal Persons: Les Grayson

The debonair man-with-a-clock in our shop above is Les Grayson - known to us as Laser Les - thats because he laser cuts the wings for our birds using only one of his multifarious skills.

He is also the horological talent behind our clocks - yes he can even cut wood IN CIRCLES.

He himself is a clock-maker and engraver, but he seems to be able to make anything with his many wonderful machines.

What would Lush Designs be without Les? NOWT, thats what.

He's based in SE London and you can contact him at lesgrayson@ukonline.co.uk