Inspring Finds: Joel Penkman

In the spirit of trying to blog more I thought I’d try to start a regular spot to talk about other things – not just my cakes, my travels and life. So, here goes ‘Inspiring Finds’ and the first person I wanted to mention was this great artist I stumbled across the other day, Joel Penkman. I’ve seen his work around before, but quick spy over on Oh Joy  the other day jogged my memory and now I’m totally smitten and want everything. How fun are these paintings? They look so real, so vibrant and I love the fact that they celebrate some real British institutions like Fabs, stick o rock and jam tarts!

Joel Pankman is based in the UK (making it all the more exciting) and really captures our food favourites. These pictures really do take me back to my childhood birthday gatherings, with party ring biscuits and jam tarts that everyone used to scrape the jam out of and discard the pastry case! You can shop the prints on Etsy, they are so reasonably priced too. I just wish I had my own kitchen wall to hang them all on in a collage of frames!

As I write this I’m huddled in a blanket, with a hoody on, waiting for the heating to kick in – it’s late July, it should be warm! I’m also glued to the news following the latest news on Norway – my heart goes out to them at this terrible time (I’m still in sock).