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Review: My First Custom Order from Jackson’s Art

Zoe Stallard, 10 October 2025

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…

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Bringing a Logo to Life: Wall Muraling at Oxford Martial Arts Academy

Zoe Stallard, 4 October 20254 October 2025

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…

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Who’s the artist?

Zoe Stallard, 22 July 202524 September 2025

💫❓️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…

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Hand-Painted Notebooks — Craft, colour and character

Zoe Stallard, 17 July 202524 September 2025

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…

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Glacier Des Deux Alpes – Reflections on a Mixed Media Journey and Process

Zoe Stallard, 19 May 202524 September 2025

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…

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Giraffe commission

Zoe Stallard, 27 November 202415 December 2024

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…

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Berimbau

Zoe Stallard, 2 October 202415 December 2024

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…

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Learning something new – thread painting

Zoe Stallard, 17 August 202417 August 2024

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…

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Time to evolve

Zoe Stallard, 3 July 202417 August 2024

Updated name, updated logo…what does this mean? Original name ‘Fox and Lion Designs’ was born in the first lock down. Whilst at the time I loved this image and name; over time I felt really disconnected and it actually felt quite restricting. Busy life as we all know means less…

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Art Sessions 5.0 – “Speed Art”

Zoe Stallard, 14 April 202414 April 2024

This was a really fun morning with Amira Hasoon. Take the concept of speed dating but instead of changing potential dates after a certain time, you swap your canvas instead. We chose to use a random prompt generator to give us a topic and we swapped paper every 1minute. 4…

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