Art 4 Site Merch

Been a hectic week, mainly spent working for my keep. I finally have enough imagery created to start produce some products for my gallery shop.

I have decided to combine all my gallery shop merch into an Etsy site. It isproving a bit of a pallava setting it up though as the company need a photo of my passport as will as a live moving video of myvface. Just waiting on the verification to come through now...

The good news though is my test prints have all come back looking just as good as I had hoped:

I will hold off getting anoy of my other art-readyvpics printed though until next month. For those that can't wait to see what little colour gems I have in store, here is what I have sorted so far:

Gower Art:

Swansea Art:

What a Whopper!

I live my new Bolivian Torch cactus, despite the pain it inflicted on my fingers when I took it from the box it arrived in:

:)

I came across this review today for my last novel, Familiar

See Gower Gallery Shop

Been a hectic day. On top of a brain-draining workday, I also finalised more graphic art work for my See Gower gallery shop. All 3 of my See galleries go live on 1 March 🤞 but it a time-consuming process getting the artwork ready.

While the gallery shops will open with just x8 images capiece, I plan on offering a wide variety of merchandise fearing them. And, throughot 2026, I plan on adding a lot more to the shops. Watch this space. The first x8 images have now been finalised for the See Gower gallery shop::

Rhossili Bay

Rhossil Surfer

Hillend. Llangennith

Rhossili Cliffs

Rhossili Bay

Three Cliffs Bay

Penclawdd

Broad Pool Bay

For visitors familiar with my work, you might all these images have been are based on photographs I have taken. So. If there any of my photos you see here on Pixie-Led, See Gower, See Swansea or See Gallery, or any of their associated Socials, let me know and I will sse what I can do you.

Next up will be 7 more Glastonbury art work. But my head is throbbing now as I have been looking various close--up screens constantly for the last few days (except for sleep-timr). Gonna treat myself to a Ribena gin now before I head to bed.

"Up the windy stairs I go

Little Chris E sleepy so"

The Neighbour's Ca

This character is getting friendly 🙂

Crabs

I have been scribbling again as the deadline for both my crabs horror story and Shell Island writeup is the end of the month.

Gallery Shops

My various See Gallery shops will be opening soon. They will be offering a range of art prints, photos, calendars and other image merchandise. So if you love Swansea, Gower or Glastonbury, watch this space as well as the online galleries involved:

See Gower | See Swansea | See Glastonbury

Tired After Hours Planning

 After a long day in the office, I foundcacquiet spot to catch up on some planning before heading home forcthe weekend. Looks like it us goung to be a tiring couple of monthscahead...

Ploughing on through 2026

It has been a pretty hectic first month of the year, and there is still much to do.

See Swansea and See Gower are now both up and running and I will be spending the rest of January getting content onto the See Glastonbury website...

February looks like it will be as equally busy for yours trully, so continue to watch this space for updates. More detail on what I will be up to in February 2026 to follow soon...

X2 New Cacti Bad Boys

Looks like my specialist Shamanic cacti collection is growing again 🙂

Nom

An Eagerness for Spring

Acheing for Winter to withdraw its devilish grasp, we ventured out to our first garden centre trip of the year. Having to do a work shift beforehand, and given the time of year, the sun was alreafy starting to set as we arrived.

Mrs P.L. had a Christmas voucher to launder and I had a crisp £20 note to swap for some gardening delights.

Luckily, there was a great sale on.

This meant, at long last, I was able to take on of these bad boy pots home with me:

Looking like the had been hauled from the decks of a sunken galleon, lost to the oceans centuries ago and now coated with colourful and rugged barnacles and coral, these have been beckoning me from this corner of my favourite garden centre for manyca year. With 50% off thecasking orice, I finally got to bring one of these 'maritime' gardening treasures home with me this evening, which makes me a very happy boy.

Given the sale, I even had enough cash left for these seeds and still come home with a spare pound coin in my pocket 🌿🍃.  

I won't go into Mrs P.L.'s more wanton spending, except to say she is now the proud keeper of one this mother plant's speckled babies: 

Thai Constellation Monstera

Goodbye Penguin

Finally got my hands on a copy of this;

While I already had the oversized Penguin edition, I can now offload that as it did not fit in with the other books published by Biblioasis.

I just need the following book to to keep my collection of Seth's A Ghoat Story for Christmas bang up to date. This was supposed to have been releases in time dor last Christmas but, apparently, Britain are not getting copies to sell for a short while yet:

Sunrise over Swansea

My first day working back at the office. Little good news there, but it was nice seeing the views available from the place:

Throwback by Guy N Smith

 This is a cool addition to my prized Guy N Smith collection:

It is going to be a fascinating read going through all these hand-written exercise books of Guy's and how this first draft of Throwback compares to the published book...

2026 Headers

 

See Sites

A little update into how 2026 is going. Whilst my day job is becoming something like a nightmare, my project work is coming along rather dandily. 

I am devoting January to my websites. So far, I have been concentrating on See Swansea as I have to add last year's city photography on to the site before I open its doors to public viewing. I have added Oct-December 2025 to the site aleady this month, but still have Jan-September images to sort and upload.

See Gower is coming along nicely too, and is already public, albeit I still have a few link issues there, which I will attend to this weekend...

Finally, See Glastonbury is still needing a fair bit of work. I will announce when that is worth a visit, but is is not yet...