by Kate Lloyd | Sep 11, 2020 | Recent assignments, Travel
What comes to mind when you think about Venice? I have had a number of memorable visits to Venice. The first was as a teenager as part of a trip across Italy by train, with my brother. We rented a small room at the top of a house in Venice and my main memory was the...
by Kate Lloyd | Jul 15, 2020 | exclusives, Gift Ideas, In lockdown, Travel
In my previous blog I mentioned two new categories of product on the shop. The first was the acrylics which I described at length. Now it’s time for the second category. Artist’s proof is a term which indicates exclusivity – in a sense even greater...
by Kate Lloyd | Jul 10, 2020 | Gift Ideas, In lockdown, Recent assignments, Travel
I haven’t been very diligent at keeping my website up to date but in lockdown there’s no excuse so I have had to look critically at it, and Lo and Behold, some of my loveliest pictures are not on there. I somehow imagined they got there automatically...
by Kate Lloyd | Jul 1, 2020 | Gift Ideas, In lockdown, practicalities, Travel
Today I’m thinking not about Bournemouth beach but about herds of horses! There’s something really magic about the sight and sound of a herd of horses galloping free and unfettered. I have a number of images of horse herds from a variety of trips over the...
by Kate Lloyd | Jun 25, 2020 | In lockdown, Recent assignments, Travel
It’s so hot today I’m wishing myself elsewhere. In fact Iceland is on my mind, not surprising as I have been there at exactly this time of year. The lupin fields are incredible and I can’t help wondering if that’s how it looks at the moment. I...
by Kate Lloyd | Jun 24, 2020 | Gift Ideas, In lockdown, Travel
Passing the time productively I don’t know about you but I’m finding my lockdown time has been filled with chores – some of which I used to avoid at all costs! So as I have had time to look in detail at all my photography stock, scarves, prints,...
by Kate Lloyd | Jun 21, 2020 | Gift Ideas, In lockdown, Travel
As a child I was often taken to France on holiday, and apart from the Brittany seaside and Mont St Michel, the main thing I recall is the tree lined roads that went on and on forever, straight as a die, so unlike our British rolling roads, and lanes. Imagine the...
by Kate Lloyd | May 28, 2020 | In lockdown, Travel
One of our favourite conversations as we set off on our ‘permitted outdoor exercise’ walking in the Surrey Hills, is what would you most prefer to be doing that we can’t do at the moment? I have to say that getting a haircut would have been top of...
by Kate Lloyd | May 25, 2020 | In lockdown, Travel
I love Italy and go there at least once a year if possible, so this year I am missing the pleasure of that trip and I am grieving for the population suffering so badly from Covid 19. At the same time I’ve been reading a book about Italy during World War 2,...
by Kate Lloyd | May 14, 2020 | Gift Ideas, In lockdown, Recent assignments, Travel
When I was about 6 years old I heard about the white horses of the Camargue. I’m not sure how that happened, but even at that age I knew they were special and I wanted to see them. It took a long time (about 60 years!) until I could actually go and visit but...
