art – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:55:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg art – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 #Covid19 might have put an end to my planned markets and exhibitions this Spring/Summer but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy my art. . Today, I’m launching my new online shop with prints available from as little as £12. Link in the bio…. https://www.teshepherdart.com . #artistsofoxfordshire #art #Illustration #illustratorsofinstagram #OxfordshireCollection #OxfordshireArtweeks https://shepline.com/2020/04/12/covid19-might-have-put-an-end-to-my-planned-markets-and-exhibitions-this-spring-summer-but-that-doesnt-mean-you-cant-enjoy-my-art-today-im-launching-my-new-online-shop-with-prints-available/ https://shepline.com/2020/04/12/covid19-might-have-put-an-end-to-my-planned-markets-and-exhibitions-this-spring-summer-but-that-doesnt-mean-you-cant-enjoy-my-art-today-im-launching-my-new-online-shop-with-prints-available/#respond Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:33:34 +0000 http://shepline.com/2020/04/12/covid19-might-have-put-an-end-to-my-planned-markets-and-exhibitions-this-spring-summer-but-that-doesnt-mean-you-cant-enjoy-my-art-today-im-launching-my-new-online-shop-with-prints-available/ #Covid19 might have put an end to my planned markets and exhibitions this Spring/Summer but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy my art. . Today, I'm launching my new online shop with prints available from as little as £12. Link in the bio.... https://www.teshepherdart.com . #artistsofoxfordshire #art #Illustration #illustratorsofinstagram #OxfordshireCollection #OxfordshireArtweeks

#Covid19 might have put an end to my planned markets and exhibitions this Spring/Summer but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy my art. . Today, I'm launching my new online shop with prints available from as little as £12. Link in the bio.... https://www.teshepherdart.com . #artistsofoxfordshire #art #Illustration #illustratorsofinstagram #OxfordshireCollection #OxfordshireArtweeks

#Covid19 might have put an end to my planned markets and exhibitions this Spring/Summer but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy my art. .
Today, I’m launching my new online shop with prints available from as little as £12. Link in the bio….
https://www.teshepherdart.com
.
#artistsofoxfordshire #art #Illustration #illustratorsofinstagram #OxfordshireCollection #OxfordshireArtweeks

]]> https://shepline.com/2020/04/12/covid19-might-have-put-an-end-to-my-planned-markets-and-exhibitions-this-spring-summer-but-that-doesnt-mean-you-cant-enjoy-my-art-today-im-launching-my-new-online-shop-with-prints-available/feed/ 0 No more day job for 10 days so moved to the al fresco home office to work on launching a new online shop for my art… . #illustration #art #artistsofoxfordshire #comingsoon #OxfordshireArtweeks https://shepline.com/2020/04/10/no-more-day-job-for-10-days-so-moved-to-the-al-fresco-home-office-to-work-on-launching-a-new-online-shop-for-my-art-illustration-art-artistsofoxfordshire-comingsoon-oxfordshireartweeks/ https://shepline.com/2020/04/10/no-more-day-job-for-10-days-so-moved-to-the-al-fresco-home-office-to-work-on-launching-a-new-online-shop-for-my-art-illustration-art-artistsofoxfordshire-comingsoon-oxfordshireartweeks/#respond Fri, 10 Apr 2020 20:31:47 +0000 http://shepline.com/2020/04/10/no-more-day-job-for-10-days-so-moved-to-the-al-fresco-home-office-to-work-on-launching-a-new-online-shop-for-my-art-illustration-art-artistsofoxfordshire-comingsoon-oxfordshireartweeks/ No more day job for 10 days so moved to the al fresco home office to work on launching a new online shop for my art... . #illustration #art #artistsofoxfordshire #comingsoon #OxfordshireArtweeks

No more day job for 10 days so moved to the al fresco home office to work on launching a new online shop for my art... . #illustration #art #artistsofoxfordshire #comingsoon #OxfordshireArtweeks

No more day job for 10 days so moved to the al fresco home office to work on launching a new online shop for my art… .
#illustration #art #artistsofoxfordshire #comingsoon #OxfordshireArtweeks

]]> https://shepline.com/2020/04/10/no-more-day-job-for-10-days-so-moved-to-the-al-fresco-home-office-to-work-on-launching-a-new-online-shop-for-my-art-illustration-art-artistsofoxfordshire-comingsoon-oxfordshireartweeks/feed/ 0 My artistic life https://shepline.com/2020/02/09/my-artistic-life/ https://shepline.com/2020/02/09/my-artistic-life/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2020 19:25:59 +0000 http://shepline.com/?p=20753 Yesterday I spent the day in Oxford. I arrived early, the train delivering me right in the centre of the city, still beautifully quiet at half past nine even on a Saturday (compared to the frenetic hustle and bustle that it became later in the day).

First off, I attended two free workshops for Oxfordshire Arweeks which I am participating in this May for the first time. The afternoon gave me some food for thought about how to market myself and my story to attract people to my art.

Later in the afternoon, I high-tailed it across town to Blackwell’s Bookshop to hear Kiran Millwood-Hargrave read from her new novel, The Mercies, and talk in conversation with friend and fellow-author Daisy Johnson. It was one of those events that was inspiring in every way possible and made me want to get back to my writing and finish the *work in progress*. In a small way it even made me begrudge my sketching life for taking up my writing life. Which is silly as I enjoy them both equally, and let’s face it when I wandered downstairs later to the ground floor of the shop an saw the racks of my prints for sale, the pictures have been earning me more of a small living than my writing.

In response to a question from the audience Kiran talked about how if you want to get published you just need to follow ‘the rules’ of the industry and write the book, then approach agents, and then it will happen. She nodded to the fact that some people of course choose to Indie Publish (as I have done) and that that was of course an option and that there is nothing wrong with that, but it wasn’t for her. And it made me think, that I think I do still have a yearning to be published and supported by the publishing machine.

Kiran’s talk definitely inspired me get on with my writing. Today, with Storm Ciara battering the UK, it was definitely a hibernating kind of day. I got stuck into reading Libby Page’s The 24-Hour Café, partly because it is so good, and partly because I can then delve into The Mercies. Then there is Daisy Johnson’s anthology of short stories, Fen.

Now I just have to put my plan into action. Just have to decide whether or not to re-edit Mr Tumnal again. I still can’t quite decide whether I should keep it set in the fictitious city of Wren Hoe on the edge of the Cotswolds, or adapt it to a full-on, if alternative, Oxford, as that is essentially where it is based. I like the Wren motifs and the play on words with Nowhere, but I’m still wondering if it could be better still for being actual Oxford – if an Oxford with trams, and an Edinburgh-style West End.

My current read topping my immediate To Read Pile†‡.

†My immediate To Read Pile is just the tip of the iceberg to my actual to read pile.

‡This list does not yet include Michelle Harrison’s new novel, A Sprinkle of Sorcery.

]]> https://shepline.com/2020/02/09/my-artistic-life/feed/ 0 Grotto art at @nt_stowe #grottos #art https://shepline.com/2019/07/21/grotto-art-at-nt_stowe-grottos-art/ https://shepline.com/2019/07/21/grotto-art-at-nt_stowe-grottos-art/#respond Sun, 21 Jul 2019 18:36:05 +0000 http://shepline.com/2019/07/21/grotto-art-at-nt_stowe-grottos-art/ Grotto art at @nt_stowe #grottos #art

Grotto art at @nt_stowe
#grottos #art

]]> https://shepline.com/2019/07/21/grotto-art-at-nt_stowe-grottos-art/feed/ 0 The artist and her work. I remember like it was yesterday, Rachel painting this picture of Corton Church for her A-Level. And I remember it inspiring my own drawing. It still does. #art #artists #friendswhoareartists https://shepline.com/2019/07/14/the-artist-and-her-work-i-remember-like-it-was-yesterday-rachel-painting-this-picture-of-corton-church-for-her-a-level-and-i-remember-it-inspiring-my-own-drawing-it-still-does-art-artists-frie/ https://shepline.com/2019/07/14/the-artist-and-her-work-i-remember-like-it-was-yesterday-rachel-painting-this-picture-of-corton-church-for-her-a-level-and-i-remember-it-inspiring-my-own-drawing-it-still-does-art-artists-frie/#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:47:54 +0000 http://shepline.com/2019/07/14/the-artist-and-her-work-i-remember-like-it-was-yesterday-rachel-painting-this-picture-of-corton-church-for-her-a-level-and-i-remember-it-inspiring-my-own-drawing-it-still-does-art-artists-frie/ The artist and her work. I remember like it was yesterday, Rachel painting this picture of Corton Church for her A-Level. And I remember it inspiring my own drawing. It still does. #art #artists #friendswhoareartists

The artist and her work. I remember like it was yesterday, Rachel painting this picture of Corton Church for her A-Level. And I remember it inspiring my own drawing. It still does. #art #artists #friendswhoareartists

]]> https://shepline.com/2019/07/14/the-artist-and-her-work-i-remember-like-it-was-yesterday-rachel-painting-this-picture-of-corton-church-for-her-a-level-and-i-remember-it-inspiring-my-own-drawing-it-still-does-art-artists-frie/feed/ 0 I’ve set up a new, public, Instagram account dedicated to my #art and #illustration. Why not have a look… . #Repost @t.e.shepherd.art • • • • • It’s a cold, grey, October day – the perfect day for snuggling down with a good book (or two) that you’ve bought from your favourite bookshop. I’ll be heading down to my favourite, @booksandink to deliver these fantastic greetings cards… #bookshopday @booksaremybag #booksaremybag #greetingscards #bookloversguidetobookshops https://shepline.com/2018/10/06/ive-set-up-a-new-public-instagram-account-dedicated-to-my-art-and-illustration-why-not-have-a-look-repost-t-e-shepherd-art%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2its-a-cold/ https://shepline.com/2018/10/06/ive-set-up-a-new-public-instagram-account-dedicated-to-my-art-and-illustration-why-not-have-a-look-repost-t-e-shepherd-art%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2its-a-cold/#respond Sat, 06 Oct 2018 08:51:53 +0000 http://shepline.com/2018/10/06/ive-set-up-a-new-public-instagram-account-dedicated-to-my-art-and-illustration-why-not-have-a-look-repost-t-e-shepherd-art%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2its-a-cold/ I've set up a new, public, Instagram account dedicated to my #art and #illustration. Why not have a look... . #Repost @t.e.shepherd.art • • • • • It's a cold, grey, October day - the perfect day for snuggling down with a good book (or two) that you've bought from your favourite bookshop. I'll be heading down to my favourite, @booksandink to deliver these fantastic greetings cards... #bookshopday @booksaremybag #booksaremybag #greetingscards #bookloversguidetobookshops

I’ve set up a new, public, Instagram account dedicated to my #art and #illustration. Why not have a look…
.
#Repost @t.e.shepherd.art
• • • • •
It’s a cold, grey, October day – the perfect day for snuggling down with a good book (or two) that you’ve bought from your favourite bookshop. I’ll be heading down to my favourite, @booksandink to deliver these fantastic greetings cards… #bookshopday @booksaremybag #booksaremybag #greetingscards #bookloversguidetobookshops

]]> https://shepline.com/2018/10/06/ive-set-up-a-new-public-instagram-account-dedicated-to-my-art-and-illustration-why-not-have-a-look-repost-t-e-shepherd-art%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2-%e2%80%a2its-a-cold/feed/ 0 Musings on the first day of a new year https://shepline.com/2018/01/01/musings-on-the-first-day-of-a-new-year/ https://shepline.com/2018/01/01/musings-on-the-first-day-of-a-new-year/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:42:39 +0000 http://shepline.com/?p=16447 Last year, I pledged to journal more in these pages – to document my life in a more substantive way than on the various forms of social media that I make use of. For a while, it worked and I enjoyed it… And then I missed a day, and another, and then the routine was broken.

Tonight is the last day of a 24-day holiday, and whilst I have read lots it took until New Year’s Eve last night that I actually wrote anything more than a few short sentences. Tonight I’ve written some more and taken The Imaginary Wife to the final section. Now I just need to keep up this momentum, and I will be able to launch my third book at the fourth Hawkesbury Upton Literary Festival in April, at which I am due to appear.

I’m going to also try and keep up the routine of writing in these pages – of journaling my life. This is for me, but if you would like to read them also and draw pleasure from reading about my various creativity endeavours then please do. Subscribe if you like. I’m going to be writing, and editing, but I also greatly enjoyed getting back to my art during Inktober so I intend to do more of that to. And I want to attempt to do an illustration for the cover of the new book and will be documenting my attempts here. Should be fun getting back to my gouache paints!

Now, I’m off to look up a bit of Fairy Queen research and Thomas the Rhymer/Tam Lin ballads for that final showdown…

 

]]> https://shepline.com/2018/01/01/musings-on-the-first-day-of-a-new-year/feed/ 0 Two of my most favourite things https://shepline.com/2017/02/19/two-of-my-most-favourite-things/ https://shepline.com/2017/02/19/two-of-my-most-favourite-things/#respond Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:09:51 +0000 http://shepline.com/?p=14290