International Graphics at Grand Designs Live with Dave Butcher Photograph

I'm at Grand Designs Live and didn't know it!

I have just discovered that International Graphics Walmsley, who publish my photographs as large prints, have one of my images on their stand at Grand Designs Live at the London Excel exhibition Centre.

The show ends on Sunday 12th May 2013 and covers everything to do with designing, building, equipping and decorating your new or renovated house.

If you are visiting they are in the Interiors section on stand L85.

My photo of St Paul's Cathedral from the London Millennium Bridge at Night is displayed centre stage at 1.8m x 0.9m. That's quite large!

Ian Cairns from IGW took these photos to show the stand with my picture and gave permission to use them here. Thanks Ian!

IGW have been publishing and selling my work around the world as large prints since 2008.

All images copyright © Ian Cairns of International Graphics Walmsley GmbH.

Surtex Image Licensing Show Over for Another Year

This was our third time that we had our own stand at Surtex. It is a show for licensing images for printing onto surfaces and textiles.


Since it was in Manhattan in New York and is very specifically for image licensing there was no need for picture frames and stand furniture like print browsers. Jan did the show on her own to save on costs and most of the prints on display were unmounted to save on weight and bulk such that everything would fit in a large suitcase and still meet airline weight limits. We didn't ship anything over before the show.

We had a mixture of International Graphics Walmsley GmbH posters (4 big ones at 1 metre x 0.5 metres, all of New York), 5 hand prints (printed by me, of course) and over 30 Silver Prints (printed by Ilford Lab Direct from scans of my negatives). The Silver Prints were mostly 30 x 24 cm but 2 of them were 70 x 70 cm for a bit of impact (one of Chicago in winter and a snowy scene from Colorado).

The picture here gives you an idea of what was on display.


Lots of interest for greetings cards, calendars and stationery products, as well as for wall art which is pretty much already tied up with our deal with IGW. Now the real work starts, chasing up lots of leads.