Christmas stocking fillers from CDG

With the first door of your advent calender swinging open this weekend, Christmas shopping can not be put off a moment longer- but do not fear, CDG is here!

Start off simple with the stocking fillers (don't jump in at the deep end!); think of your smaller prints, miniature canvases and taxidermy butterfly scenes, and you'll be onto a winner. Read on for the essentials to nestle with the obligatory chocolate coins, and avoid a lump of coal this December.

 

German street artist KEF!'s numbered postcard canvases bubble with colour and twist in layers of lines. The pastels shine thought the black background making them versatile and ready for any environment, and priced at £80 it's a investment worth making.  

 

Carly Ashdown brings us joyful spring gardens and abstract painting on 15 x 15 cm canvases, titled The Garden. Delicious pinks emerge form white, and fresh green twists in and out. Priced at £68 .

 

Wistful layered memories beckon roads long ago walked and beauty that lingers on in Emily Hannon's beautiful canvases. Prices start from £125. 

 

Giving your heart is a major life event, and Kate Knight's  Encrusted Blackened Heart with metal leaf is no less of an event, the shaping of watercolour calls out love and it's sweet vulnerability. Priced at £425. 

London lovers can crawl through a re-imagined capital city with shared communal spaces stretching out across the Thames. Tannaz Oroumchi's invigorating map like drawings make for a London lovers dream and a artwork to get lost in. Prices start from £30 .

 

Mark Powell may be famous for his finely drawn Bic biro drawings, but allow me to introduce his charismatic screen prints. Priced at £150, the antique paper individually selected for the image make each piece unique and built in a personal story. 

 

We all have that friend or relative who has caught the travel bug. Send them a Andrea Tyrimos postcard, from her series from across the Pond. Tyrimos paints the light that emerges from a scene, focusing on the rays that spread out before us, making her New York series a breath taking memento of the that special someone's sense of adventure. Prices start from £150 .

Thinking caps on, please! - Sinéad