First prints in the mail!

"Ode to Creativity" : Handmade collage
Copyright © 2008 by Vivi-Mari Carpelan

As you'll hopefully have heard, we managed to raise just enough from our crowd-funding campaign at indiegogo.com to purchase a 2nd-hand pigment-ink fine-art quality printer, and after a little cleaning and overhauling, those who signed up for one of our indiegogo funding perks can see the results. The first prints are in the mail today! We hope you'll agree that the quality is everything we could have asked for!

As Vivi-Mari's handmade collage “Ode to Creativity”, featuring the Indian goddess of learning and creativity, Saraswati, was the 'poster girl' for our campaign, we thought it was only fitting that this should be the first print of our series. We hope you like this piece as much as we do!

News this month:

Congratualtions in order! Vivi-Mari sold one of the two pieces she had in the 'Outside In West' exhibition at the Museum of Somerset in Taunton, and has just heard that another work has been selected for the 'Shape' exhibition coming up in the Autumn at Bow Arts (“At the heart of London's artist quarter”!). More details of that coming up in the newsletter.

Meanwhile, I'm in the middle of 'changing course'... you might have seen via my blog or newsletter that I'm ceasing all online sales from the end of August in order to concentrate on more 'serious' work for the collector market. This means shops at saatchi-online.com, fineartamerica,com, redbubble.com, and etsy.com will cease to exist at the end of the month. All items in the stores have already been discounted, but in particular, at etsy.com, I'm offering 50% off everything for the final week (25th - 31st August).

To order from etsy.com and get 50% off, please go to www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Spiritvisions, make your selections, and enter the discount code CLOSING50 during checkout. (This code is active from Sunday 25th August).

Funders, we hope you enjoy our August mailout, and look forward to the next print in September. Until then,

Love from Martin & Vivi-Mari