Over £1bn is set to be spent in the UK on Valentine's Day – just imagine if that spending was local rather than with the giants? Make February 14th Love Local Day - share the love with us and we will be happy to help make your Valentine's Day special. #LoveLocalDay #ShopLocal

Awww you’ll make us blush! What colour will we go? Cadmium Red? Alizarin Crimson? Quinacridone Magenta? Or Carmine?!

As February is the month of love, and as we had so many nominations in the @ShopAppyUK #lovelocalday campaign, we thought we would share a few of the magic moments from our nominations. We were blown away by all the love and support our little shop got - thank you.

Yes this really made us smile. It’s nice to feel appreciated. Makes all the hard work worthwhile ☺️

Celebrate #worldwatercolourmonth with us and get HALF PRICE watercolour class recordings from our sister site artstreamclub.com Use the code WWM50OFF on checkout all month!

And not forgetting Old Town Cafe and Fellowship of the Needle tattoo studio we share the building with. The cafe has been in Banbury town centre for 9 years, and the tattoo studio for 18 years!

The result of Barry’s 45 minute #watercolour demonstration this morning, using just four colours and one brush! You can watch the demo here: youtu.be/gPP-9ovg0Ak

Such sad news. Thank you for your lifetime of service, ma’am.

Newspager Sheju over at Parakeet Books, Richard of Fudge Kitchen and Barry over at The Artery talking about the exceptionally tough retail market in the Guardian today. #BeTheStory theguardian.com/business/live/…

Why not get cosy now autumn is here and use some acrylic paints to paint on fallen leaves? #cottagecore #autumn #art #painting #hedgehog

Get that cosy feeling by doing some leaf painting! Acrylic paint works best for painting on fallen leaves. 🎨 #mushroomcore #cottagecore #autumn #leaves #toadstools #art #painting #acrylicpaint

Our advert this Christmas is a little different. From Barry and Jacqui, have a wonderful time over the festive period, make memories, and spend time with loved ones. These are the memories that will last, not the presents beneath the tree that we couldn’t really afford.

We’ve had a bit of a move around in our teaching room….to make room for MORE students in our classes. Many of our sessions are happily full most weeks, and we are extremely grateful for all of the support.

We think it could help the smaller businesses massively, and offset the free parking on the out of town retail parks and supermarkets.

🎺SAVE THE DATE🎺 You are invited to a Right Royal Knees Up in the old town on Saturday 6th May 10:30am-2pm We’ll be sharing more information over the coming weeks, but we really just couldn’t keep quiet! 👑 #banbury #shoplocal #banburyoldtown #rightroyalkneesup #banburyotp23

Looks amazing!

Want to know how to avoid ruining and overworking your art? Barry has an unusual but proven way of stopping it. 🎨 Have a listen youtu.be/A9pUnFAQ92E #artchats #arttalk #artadvice

A new Barry chat uploaded onto our YouTube channel. This time Barry chats about portraiture in the Elizabethan period. youtu.be/HoMe6y84CsQ #artfacts #artfact #artyfacts #chatwithbarry #arthistory #morethanretail

Back in stock! Caran D’Ache Palette Aquarelle store33820154.store.yola.com/shared-product…

Mixing colours from just three primary colours