As someone who loves to paint, I’ve ordered plenty of art supplies over the years, but this was my first time commissioning a custom canvas and frame. After doing some online research, ‘Jackson’s Art Supplies’ https://www.jacksonsart.com/ looked great so I decided to give their custom service a try — and…
Bringing a Logo to Life: Wall Muraling at Oxford Martial Arts Academy
Oxford Amateur Boxing Club This wasn’t my first project with OMAA (Oxford Martial Arts Academy). If you scroll back through my blog or head over to my instagram page you will find the previous project. There’s something uniquely powerful about taking a logo, and scaling it up into a mural…
Who’s the artist?
💫❓️Who’s the artist❓️💫 Hello there! I’m Zoe Stallard, an artist based in Oxfordshire, UK. Since 2019 I’ve evolved my brand — from Fox and Lion Designs to Fox and Lion Creative — and more recently I’ve rebranded under my own name: Zoe Stallard – Artist. I created this space to…
Hand-Painted Notebooks — Craft, colour and character
End of year teacher notebooks I recently finished a small batch of 9 custom painted notebooks — I love making these notebooks as I feel they bring together everything I love within my art: personalisation, colour, and the small details. When I first started making these it was a little…
Glacier Des Deux Alpes – Reflections on a Mixed Media Journey and Process
The process and technique Glacier Des Deux Alpes began with a simple pencil sketch, mapping out the flow, peaks and slopes to lay the base of this piece. From there, the sky was blocked in with acrylics — broad strokes of blues, greys and whites to create a striking contrast…
Emerald tree boa
📍The Living Rainforest – Newbury
Giraffe commission
I took on this commission back in June as a painting from a photograph. 40cm x 30cm canvas painted in acrylic paint. This order did take a little longer than planned due to time constraints and thankfully my client was more than understanding. The hardest part of this piece was…
Pink Gerbera
“Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words…” – Lydia Maria Francis Child
Berimbau
This instrument is a Berimbau which is commonly used in the traditional music and martial art of Capoeira. I was asked back in August to personalise this beautiful instrument consisting of 3 parts, the cabaca (dome shape), the verga (stick) and the caxixi (shaker). The brief was a black painted…
Learning something new – thread painting
What is thread painting? Basically the art of making a picture out of different embroidery stitches and thread. I came across this one day on an Instagram scroll and its safe to say I was inspired. I’ve always been into painting or drawing but I have found I struggle to…
