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How to navigate to the rest of the site: navigate to birthday cards: | personalised birthday cards with butterflies & dragonflies | personalised handmade birthday card with animals | personalised  birthday cards with flower illustrations | range of birthday cards with abstract floral images |  personalised birthday cards with flower photographs | personalised handmade birthday cards for kids | handmade birthday cards with Welsh castles | personalised birthday cards with Welsh cobs | birthday cards with Welsh landscapes | handmade birthday cards with Welsh trains navigate to Christmas cards: | Christmas cards with Welsh cobs and animals | Xmas cards with illustrations and photography | personalised Christmas cards with traditional watercolour landscapes | handmade Christmas cards with photographs | Christmas cards with illustrations of Welsh steam trains and Welsh castles | Christmas cards with windows navigate to wedding stationery:  | exciting new range of designs with abstract flowers in watercolour | personalised wedding stationery with butterflies and calligraphy | handmade wedding stationery with windows | personalised weddings invitations with iconic images | wedding invitations with ampersands and petals | creative wedding invitations with gate folds and watercolours miscellaneous: | personalised engagement and wedding anniversary cards | new baby christening cards | handmade Dydd Santes Dwynwen cards |   Saint Valentine's day cards | handmade Easter Sunday cards | Saint David's Day cards | Mother's Day cards | Father's Day cards | thank you cards | get well soon cards | with sympathy cards prints and original work by Peter Kitchin: | watercolours of Welsh landscapes | watercolours paintings of Ffestiniog trains prints and original work by Rebecca Kitchin: | Welsh cob paintings | illustrations of cats and dogs | watercolours of Ffestiniog trains general pages: | contact details | site map | about us and contacts | terms | resources | new concepts | about buying | postage | home page

About Becky Well, what can I say? I am a 27 year old artist and illustrator living in the stunning mountains of North Wales. I graduated from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design with a First Class Degree in Illustration in 2003 after winning the 'Debenham's Design Innovator of the Year Award' for my Final Year Portfolio. From this I gained my first commercial commission to produce the art work for the Debenham's New Store in Birmingham's Bull Ring Shopping Complex. Even five years later they are still up. From that very first commission I have never really looked back. For a short while I worked as a Junior Designer and web-designer at a local Internet company back home in North Wales but now I am a full time artist and illustrator concentrating on my clients' commissions. These can range from book illustrations to fashion to a watercolour of a client's favourite dog! I also help to run a greeting card and wedding stationery business with my father, Peter. (You can find the links on the contact page)   My father Peter is a huge inspiration for me and I suppose it's where I get my unique watercolour style from. My focus in life is to produce beautiful paintings that people can enjoy - for me, that is true art. Art is not some people running around the Tate Modern in London, nor is it an 'un-made bed'. These are just concepts, something the advertising industry has been doing for years to to get an idea for a campaign! Peter was a Creative Director with Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising Agency in 1970's and ran his own successful Graphic Design Business for many years before becoming a Design Lecturer in the 1990's. I am married to Jonathan Whalley, the Chief Mechanical Engineer on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways. We live in Porthmadog and I have my studios in my home with my two cats and I also work with my father in the studio at Rhyd-y-Sarn, Meg and Bee to keep me company. As you may of noticed I am a keen horse woman and I own two beautiful Welsh Cobs called Lasgarn Jake and Bryndir Taran. They are my inspiration behind most of my equine paintings. Please feel free to contact me regarding any aspect of my work. Contact details for Rebecca Name of business: Celtic-1 Greeting Cards 8 Madoc Street, Porthmadog, Gwynedd LL49 9BU, Wales, Studio: 01766 512518 / 762693 Mobile: 07854672364 Email: info@rebecca-kitchin.co.uk     About Peter Croeso! Welcome to our web site. I have spent my entire career involved in art in some way - from art directing, illustration, lecturing and painting. It's the 'painting' bit that I do full time now that I have retired to the mountains of Snowdonia. As a professional lecturer I have developed and delivered many art courses in North Wales and south Buckinghamshire during the past thirty years as well as working as Creative Group Head for Saatchi and running my own communications business. In the past I have won the 'Marketing Award of the Year' from the (then) DTI plus three D&AD Awards (the BAFTA equivalent in the art and design world). Throughout this period I have been drawn back time and again to Snowdonia like a yo-yo on caffeine. Many hours have been spent exploring and recording the extraordinarily wild landscape and the indelible legacy of slate quarrying that has been etched into every conceivable facet. It is these images that I have attempted to translate onto the greetings cards in the web site. On of the great joys of going through this fascinating exercise is the huge privilege of working with my recently graduated daughter who has shown herself to be one of the best illustrators I have ever worked with. The remarkable difference between the two styles is evident throughout the site and is a great accolade and evidence of her total independence of creative thought. Contact details for Peter Name of business: Celtic-1 Greeting Cards Web Address: http://www.celtic-1.co.uk Home/Studio Address: Bron Elliw, Rhyd-y-Sarn, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd LL41 4NT. Wales, UK. Telephone Number: 01766 762693. E-mail address: enquiry@celtic-1.co.uk     PLEASE NOTE HOLIDAY SCHEDULE: At present we have no holidays scheduled. Please note actual delivery is totally out off our hands although we normally print the same day (orders received before 3.00 pm) and post 1st Class the following morning. ORDERING CARDS TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE UK For orders outside the UK please order a minimum of 6 cards (you can mix designs if you wish). GOOD NEWS FOR WELSH LEARNERS If you want to write your own Welsh message we have now added more pages to help you here. If you want to investigate the Welsh language further and perhaps learn a few phrases we have added a totally new section here. Don't forget - you can write ANY message on ANY card with ANY image - just enjoy yourself ! IMPORTANT DATES FOR 2010 / PWYSIG DYDDIADAU I 2010 New Year's Day: January 1st Dydd Santes Dwynwen* (Saint Dwynwen Day): January 25th Saint Valentine's Day: February 14th Saint David's Day (Patron saint of Wales): March 1st St Piran's Day (Patron saint of Cornwall): March 5th Mother's Day: March 14th Saint Patrick's Day (Patron saint of Scotland): March 17th Good Friday: April 2nd Easter Sunday: April 4th Easter Monday: April 5th Saint George's Day (Patron saint of England): April 23rd Early May Bank Holiday: May 3rd Spring Bank Holiday: May 31st Father's Day: June 20th Summer Bank Holiday: August 30th Saint Andrew's Day (Patron Saint of Scotland): November 30th Christmas Eve: December 24th Christmas Day: December 25th Boxing Day: December 26 Saint Stephen's Day: December 26th New Year's Eve: December 31st *Welsh equivalent of the English Saint Valentine's Day. Handmade personalised greeting cards from Wales, signed prints and originals. NODWCH GWYLIAU RHAGLEN: Dim gwyliau rwan. Am traddodiad: yn amlwg darparu gwirioneddol yn hollol allan oddi ar ein dwylo er ein bod bob amser yn argraffu ar yr un diwrnod (archebion a dderbyniwyd cyn 3:00) ac ar ôl 1 Dosbarth y bore canlynol. ARCHEBU I ANNERCH Y TU ALLAN I'R DU Ar gyfer archebion tu allan i'r DU os gwelwch yn dda er o leiaf 6 cardiau (gallwch cymysgedd dyluniadau os ydych yn dymuno). NEWYDDION DA I DDYSGWYR CYMRAEG Os ydych chi eisiau ysgrifennu neges eich hun Cymru erbyn hyn rydym wedi ychwanegu tudalennau mwy i helpu chi yma. Os ydych am i ymchwilio i'r iaith Cymraeg ymhellach ac efallai ddysgu ychydig o ymadroddion rydym wedi ychwanegu adran hollol newydd yma. Peidiwch ag anghofio - gallwch ysgrifennu neges ar y cerdyn UNRHYW UNRHYW gyda delwedd UNRHYW - dim ond mwynhau eich hun!