Today we have a sneak preview of new work from the designers at Jennifer Nelson Artists. Jennifer has a stable of ten great artists such as Jill Howarth, Bee Brown and Miriam Bos who all offer a fantastic selection of portfolio pieces. Here are just some of their winter and holiday designs available for clients and anyone visiting Heimtext in Frankfurt next month can see them in person.

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Victoria Johnson is currently going Christmas design crazy after she designed some beautiful seasonal products for TAG and creating a course to offer other artists some of her expertise in creating Christmas artwork. Here we have some of the product shots from the TAG catalogue showing all the beautiful products Victoria has designed for their 2017 range including tableware, doormats, and tea

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Next up we have some designs from Victoria Johnson's Create Christmas. This is a new online course that offers artists the knowledge and confidence to create beautiful Christmas artwork and capture the attention of the biggest commercial artwork market in the world. Each week, for three weeks, students receive a very detailed written brief, a beautiful mood-board full of inspiring imagery, a

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We saw a little bit of Jennifer Orkin Lewis, aka August Wren in the last post, but her Jennifer has treated us to a whole selection of Christmas Designs. She is doing a Holiday design challenge for the first time and has never created so much Christmas art in a row so feels it is a real accomplishment!!

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Jocelyn Proust has been busy participating in the annual Four Corners Art Collective #adventcalendarart daily Instagram challenge this month. It is the third year this challenge has taken place and Jocelyn has licensed a number of the designs created in previous years for calendars, fabric and stationery. Here are some of the Christmas designs she has created for the 2017 challenge and they are

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Also taking part in the Four Corners Collective advent challenge is Emma McGowan, an illustrator and surface pattern designer based in Brighton. As well as working on commissions for editorial clients, Emma's art is licensed on notebooks, calendars, desk planners, fabric and greetings cards. Clients include Big Wheel Press, Quarto, Michael O�Mara Books, Robert Kaufman and The Guardian. Emma's

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Another artist taking part in the Four Corners Collective Instagram challenge is Pippa Shaw.
Pippa has been joining in with her fellow artists making lots of new Christmas-themed art for their third advent calendar art challenge this December. To see more festive designs you can follow along on Instagram here. Pippa would love to hear from any art directors who are interested in licensing her

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Fab designer Miriam Bos is doing a Christmas countdown on her Instagram account again this year and it has been great. Lots of beautiful creatures, folk designs, whimsy and her recurring character the sweet August the Fox. Follow along with Miriam online here.
(PS We have a lot of Christmas images to post this week already so if you were thinking of submitting any designs to P&P please send

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Linda Solovic has been working on some Christmas images for her '25 Days of Christmas' that she has been posting on Instagram. Here are a few of the 25 designs here along with some holiday images

that are available for licensing on greeting cards, journal covers, etc.

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I have another Finnish designer to showcase again today with the work of Kati-Marika Vihermaki. I spotted Kati-Marika's Christmas cards at online store Weecos (more from them in the next post) and decided see what else she was up to. Kati-Marika studied Graphic Design at University in Helsinki, graduating in 2011, and now works as a freelance illustrator and is open to all kinds of interesting

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Artist Emily Muschinske is doing holiday design challenge on Instagram that is a bit different. Because Emily is half Jewish she can�t call it an advent, and her designs include Hanukkah. But she is posting a festive design everyday and says she is attracted to more secular, inclusive takes on holiday art. Find Emily on Instagram here.














If you like her style you can also check out

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Beck Ng is the designer/maker behind the Melbourne based label Fabric Drawer. She initially started creating patterns to license, but was struggling to get her work out there. So in 2015 she began making a few products using her own fabric prints. Fast forward to 2017, and Beck is now at design/maker markets around Melbourne selling her wares. She also sells products through her Etsy shop and

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Finnish designer Heidi Valkola has produced these colourful Christmas cards for 2017. Heidi also has some lovely designs featuring polar bears in wintry landscapes on tableware, as well foxes and bears on blankets and leopards on height charts. She started producing her own products in 2016 and continues to expand the range, with an international online store coming soon. To see the current

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These beautiful designs are samples of the most recent work on a winter theme and Christmas theme by Ohn Mar Win. Ohn Mar is a UK based artist with a background in illustration and greetings cards. She is best known for her daily watercolour practice, often combining her paintings with pen and line work to create beautiful effects Her unique work has appeared in cookery books and packaging as

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With a background in fashion and textiles, Claire Picard's illustrations are inspired by a love for florals, for decoration and for femininity. Claire uses paper-cutting techniques and collage, with hand-drawn linework or watercolour. Having lived and worked in Paris for many years as a fashion designer and illustrator, and then as a print artist, she has worked internationally in the greetings

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And talking of brand new Christmas art, Surface designer Shannon McNab is hosting her 2nd annual Christmas Art challenge on Instagram under the hashtag #christmasartcountdown2017. She showcased several designs from last year's challenge during her debut at Surtex and looks forward to doing it again at the 2018 show. You can follow on Instagram here or see more of her portfolio work here.

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Kayo Aoyama is a designer based in Tokyo,Japan. Kayo studied Pattern Design at the University of Gothenberg in Sweden. Since 2012 Kayo has been working as a freelance designer and one of her clients is Nunocoto Fabrics for whom she has designed some of the beautiful prints shown here. Kayo loves working with organic forms and enjoys the shapes and lines of nature. Scroll down to enjoy some of

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Franca Westaway has worked as a textile and fashion designer and had a career as an Art and Textiles teacher. She has a passion for all things art, fabric and pattern and is a graduate of the Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design e-course from Rachael Taylor. This past summer has seen Franca fascinated by everything grown in her garden, flowers, vegetables, and weeds! all feature strongly

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Alexandra Bordallo is a surface designer based in Vic, Barcelona. Her passion for sewing and fabric is the reason why she started a self-taught journey to learn how to create pretty patterns when my son was born three years ago (and just can't stop designing since then!). She is dreaming of being a licensing fabric designer someday and sew pretty things with her own fabric collections! You can

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Talking of designers from Finland here we have some examples of the beautiful work of Minna Niskakangas. Minna has ten years experience in designing home products. She is inspired by different materials as wood, ceramics, metal, glassware and textile. Minna's current passion is pattern making which she does as part of the design team at Pentik, where Minna is responsible for the whole design

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