Born and raised in Hong Kong, Bovey Lee felt a spe­cial con­nec­tion to the fad­ing Chinese folk art of paper-cutting. Her work, using impossibly thin rice paper, is obscenely intric­ate and utterly beautiful.

Bovey Lee, “Spine”, 2007

Bovey Lee, “The But­ter­fly Gown”, 2010

Bovey Lee, “Tsunami-Enmeshed”, 2008

Bovey Lee, “Tsunami-Enmeshed”, 2008

Bovey Lee, “Atomic Jelly­fish”, 2007

(pho­tos cour­tesy of Beau­ti­ful Decay)

Bovey is cur­rently a full-time artist based in Pitt­s­burgh. Her works have been exhib­ited at the Brook­lyn Museum of Art;  Museum Belle­rive, Zurich; National Glass Centre, UK; Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing; Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan; Hong Kong Museum of Art; and Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

Bovey’s art is rep­res­en­ted by Grotto Fine Arts Gal­lery in Hong Kong.

Do visit her web­site to see her enorm­ous col­lec­tion of work. Amazing!

Thought I’d just tot up where in the world we’ve shipped our art to. So aside from the UK, Coulson Macleod prints now hang in homes in the fol­low­ing countries…

Aus­tralia, Canada, Fin­land, France, Ger­many, Greece, India, Ire­land, Italy, Neth­er­lands, New Zea­l­and, Nor­way, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emir­ates, and of course from the east to west coast of the USA.

How very, very cool!

Our latest col­lec­tion, ‘Winter Trees’ is now online to buy at Coulson Macleod

‘Thick Blows My Frosty Breath Abroad’

‘Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind’

‘The Roar of Trees and Crack of Branches’

‘Freeze, Freeze Thou Bit­ter Sky’

We’ve hand­made the frame and pan­elled back­board from reclaimed antique Vic­torian roof tim­bers, the same tim­bers that we use for our ‘Zodiac’ frames, because they are just so gor­geous. The planks all vary in size, so no piece is identical.

We then hand paint the boards and over-print it with dis­tressed image and typography.

‘Winter Trees’ is unlim­ited in print quantity.

Coulson Macleod is fea­tured in this month’s issue of Coun­try & Town House magazine.

Coulson Macleod is fea­tured in this month’s issue of Easy Liv­ing Magazine.

Our art­work ‘Love Makes The Ride Worth­while’ is on page 11 on the Editor’s let­ter page. Susie For­bes says, “Finally — this Coulson Macleod panel (£149) with its sweet and poignant mes­sage takes us right back to feel­ing the love — and let’s face it, there’s noth­ing quite like it!”

So thank you very much Susie For­bes, Editor of Easy Liv­ing. You have great taste!

Coulson Macleod can be seen in this month’s issue of Red (not a fea­ture, unfor­tu­nately, but we’ve got a lovely big advert.)

Now we don’t do a great deal of advert­ising, because advert­ising costs lots of money. We’d like to though. We appear monthly in Elle Dec­or­a­tion and Livin­getc. And if you fol­low this blog, you’ll know that we did advert­ise in the Janu­ary issue of Elle.

Our adverts always attract lovely new cus­tom­ers, which is obvi­ously the point. But there is also a part of us that simply loves open­ing a magazine and see­ing ourselves in print!

Last night Coulson Macleod went to the open­ing night of Open 10, the annual open con­tem­por­ary art show that is being held in Kettering’s beau­ti­ful Alfred East Art Gal­lery.

We per­used the 83 selec­ted art­works, nat­ur­ally admir­ing some more than oth­ers, sip­ping our glass of wine. A jolly lovely way to spend an evening.

We blogged about Open 10 last week when we found out that one of our art­works ‘The Six­ties’ had been selec­ted to exhibit and we men­tioned some other artists who had also been selec­ted. So here are few more names to check out (again I can only point you to the artists who have a web­site, and you’d be sur­prised just how many don’t)…

Joanne Archer, Stella Ben­ford, Roger Brad­ley, Craig Bridge­ford, Paul Bursnall, Andree Fletcher, Sarah Kay, Brian Mut­ton, Emma Raby, and War­ren Shaw .

Open 10 is now open to the gen­eral pub­lic and closes on 19^th June. So if you hap­pen to be in the area do pop in and check out the local tal­ent and maybe pick up a piece of con­tem­por­ary art.

Since launch­ing Coulson Macleod a little over a year ago (we star­ted the busi­ness in March 2009) we’ve updated our web­site twice. Actu­ally updat­ing is incor­rect, we’ve com­pletely redesigned the web­site twice.

And now we’ve just launched our third version.

Each time we strip it back fur­ther for an even more uncluttered look. We love sim­pli­city. And we totally love our new ver­sion, which was designed by us.

Would love to hear your comments.

OK we couldn’t wait any longer. We’ve not even put these online yet as we’re wait­ing to show­case them on our new web­site (we’re beaver­ing away as fast as we can on this). Any­way, intro­du­cing you to the latest art col­lec­tion ‘Zodiac’ from Coulson Macleod…

‘Zodiac’ fea­tures the per­son­al­ity traits of each zodiac sign. We’ve used dis­tressed typo­graphy (of course!). But this time prin­ted onto solid lime­stone. Yep. Gor­geous solid creamy lime­stone. Our lime­stone tiles have been tumbled (a pro­cess that pro­duces an aged appear­ance) as we wanted an uneven pit­ted sur­face along with broken edges and roun­ded corners. Don’t tell any­one, but we’ve been doing an unhealthy amount of strok­ing, the lime­stone feels that good.

Our ‘Zodiac’ prints are open edi­tions, which means there is an unlim­ited print quant­ity. So, because they are not lim­ited like most of our art­work, they are also a little lighter on the purse.

We’re selling them either framed (see our Capri­corn print above). The framed size is 48cm x 28cm x 4cm.

Or unframed (see our Aquar­ius print above). The unframed size is 40cm x 20cm x 1.2cm.

The unframed prints look totally fab simply lean­ing on a book­shelf nestled between books. Or of course the framed ver­sion can be hung on a wall.

The frames are hand­made as is the Coulson Macleod way. Again we’ve used reclaimed antique Vic­torian roof tim­bers. This means that each frame is actu­ally unique. The wood is full of lovely defects. Some come with knot holes, or nail holes, warps and water marks.

Hope you fall in love with these like we have.

Pretty chuffed that Coulson Macleod has been selec­ted to exhibit at Open 10, Ket­ter­ing Art Gallery’s Annual Open Con­tem­por­ary Art Exhib­i­tion.

Our ‘The Six­ties’ print will be on view (and on sale) from April 28^th to June 19^th.

The event aims to ‘bring together con­tem­por­ary art from emer­ging and estab­lished artists in the region in paint­ing, print, tex­tiles, sculpt­ing, and new media.’

212 works were sub­mit­ted to Open 10, and 83 have been selec­ted to exhibit. This year the selec­tion panel con­sisted of Craig Ash­ley, Pro­du­cer of Visual Arts and Media at mac, Andrew Berg­man, Part­ner at the Ket­ter­ing branch of soli­cit­ors Wilson Browne, and Simon Lake, Senior Cur­ator of Art at Leicester’s New Walk Museum and Art Gal­lery.

Other artists that have been selec­ted include…

Ivan Green (two of his prints have just been acquired by the V&A for inclu­sion in their per­man­ent col­lec­tion), artist and illus­trator Chris Prout who has a fun-to-read blog The Paint­ers Pro­gress, Rae Flack, Kelly Gard­ner, Brenda McK­etty, Mark Fearn­ley, and Linda Straw.

I could obvi­ously only select the artists that actu­ally have a web pres­ence. I Googled their names so I just hope that these are the cor­rect artists!

Let us know what you think.