The Scribble

  • You Are What You Give with... Florence & Richard Ingleby

    You Are What You Give with... Florence & Richard Ingleby

    More than a decade before I began Scribble & Daub, Richard & Florence were my first (and only!) employers at their eponymous gallery in Edinburgh, one of Scotland's most beautiful and respected contemporary art spaces (below, paintings in an exhibition by Caroline Walker). After many years spent in their orbit, I can tell you that they have exquisite taste, are warm and ge...

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  • How to talk about love... and how to celebrate it!

    How to talk about love... and how to celebrate it!
    "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries; without them humanity cannot survive." Dalai Lama
     
    How to talk about love at a moment when there is such a terrifying lack of it on display around the world? It's not always easy...
     
    On Christmas Eve (of all days!) I received an email from someone informing me tha...
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  • Small Shifts & Free Gifts

    Small Shifts & Free Gifts
    "The beginning is always today"
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
     
    Happy New Year! I don't know about you, but mine has started slowly; still feeling more like a Wood Snake curled up in hibernation, and definitely not yet ready to ride the Fire Horse coming our way for the first time in 60 years on 17th February... 
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  • You Are What You Give... with Miranda Sinclair

    You Are What You Give... with Miranda Sinclair

    Miranda helped me style Scribble & Daub's first ever trade show over a decade ago - truth be told, I’m not sure how much the crowd appreciated our gorgeous high gloss, high colour creations - but we did! - and it was the beginning of a friendship and ongoing professional admiration that led to me making her wedding invitations (inspired by legendary hotel Le Colombe d'Or's menus) and now this lovely interview... Continue reading

  • Let's Stick Together This Christmas!

    Let's Stick Together This Christmas!
    “Snowflakes, of course, are the
    ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee” 
    Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
     
    Wilson ‘Snowflake' Bentley was the first person ever to photograph a snowflake in 1885. Over the next 47 winters of his life, he took 5,381 pho...
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