Sunny Side Art
Story
About us
Sunny Side Art is the creation of Linda Edwards and Nigel Elliott.
Linda worked a a professinal illustrator for over 20 years and now concentrates on creating paintings.(see her website lindaedwardsart.co.uk)
Born in Africa and returning there later to live for some years, Linda grew up in the north-east of England. She read geography at Cambridge and has no formal art training. Linda has exhibited at the Royal Academy and continues to practise as a painter mainly in watercolour with gold leaf and in oils. She has illustrated many books for Usborne Publishing, including the best-selling Children's Picture Atlas. Among many international clients, Goebel in Germany licensed her designs for Paradise Garden, an enamel tea pot and porcelain collection.
Nigel is a professional musician, fledgling printmaker and animator. He began his musical career in the London blues scene with The Cobras and Blast Furnace and the Heatwaves and worked extensively as a session musician before touring worldwide with the likes of Toyah and Spike Milligan. Nigel later settled in America where he continued working as a musician as well as running a recording studio and working as a freelance sound mixer for independent film company North by Northwest.
Sunny Side Art: the beginning
We live in Shrewsbury, a lovely old town on the Welsh borders, one of Britain's best kept secrets. A place where people love to live. A few years ago, for one of our Open Studio events, Linda made a drawing weaving together Shrewsbury's odd, interesting buildings and even odder street names. She linked it with one of her favourite old songs: Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street. It struck a chord. This was the start.
This is part of the very first Sunny Side of the Street drawing that Linda made.
Open Studio events in summer and in winter.
and now
Exploring a sense of place. We have both lived and worked in many different places all over the world. It has always fascinated us how places and spaces work. Making new drawings is a perfect excuse to revisit old haunts, and explore new ones. To wander around secret passageways and hidden corners, delve into history, connections and stories, both real and imagined.
life can be so sweet
We are busy visiting places near and far that have special resonance for us, sometimes in Nigel's trusty 1962 Rover 100. We are learning about new products; hand colouring, finishing and different kinds of printmaking. Exploring new ways to tell the story.
Thank you for reading and we hope you'll stay in touch.
Life can be so sweet
