Our Colart “Red Hot” commercial program is to support and enhance in store brands visibility, merchandising and value added…I am pleased to share the recent huge Winsor & Newton POS that Jean Bernard Devos our commercial manager in Belgium has managed to set up into flagship store of Lucas Fine Arts Store chain (15 units in Belgium). Impressive, isn’t it? 

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Flashback Friday for the 1863 Winsor & Newton catalogue:  I’m not sure what makes it a “Gentlemen’s” Sketching seat except likely the verbiage of the times, but I absolutely love to see products from our past. 

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I came across this article on the BBC News website today. It sums up to me how our own Sustainability journey will be far from linear and how we will need to continue to challenge ourselves on our thinking. I certainly always assumed that moving away from coffee pods is the way to go. It could well be, but this article demonstrates how we need to take many things in to account on our sustainability journey….and I don\’t just mean our coffee choices!

Coffee pod carbon footprint better for planet than filtered brew – BBC News

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We are excited to share that Liquitex Professional Recycled Canvas is now up on the Liquitex website and a full brand campaign will follow starting in May 2023. Liquitex Professional Recycled Canvas is made with cloth from 100% recycled plastic bottles fastened to FSC certified wood. Suitable for both acrylic and oil paints, the high-quality surface has been tested by professional artists and within our lab so artists can create with confidence while reducing their impact on the environment. After an assembly fault by the supplier, teams across various sites worked proactively and efficiently on solutions. I’m happy to share that stock of excellent quality is leaving the supplier imminently after sample approval from all sites and approval from a 3rd party quality check. Thank you to all involved with ensuring that stock is of a premium quality in line with all Liquitex products. Liquitex Professional Recycled Canvas is a major step forward for the Liquitex sustainability vision and efforts. We have received positive feedback from customers and artists alike and look forward to getting the products out to market. The products are available for sale now on Liquitex.com, followed shortly by key customers in North America, and customers for DC7 and DC9 in the coming months. You can learn more about the range here: https://www.liquitex.com/us/products/professional/tools/recycled-canvas/ and about the Liquitex sustainability program, A Positive Mark here: https://www.liquitex.com/sustain/

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My dear friends, you are showing very interesting finds here.I also have something I would like to share with you.

Not so long ago, I had the pleasure of seeing 2 exhibitions of Tamara Łempicka’s works. Probably most of you associate her works with the Art Deco trend, she is the most famous of them.I was surprised by her drawings and works that were created towards the end of her life.At that time, she painted abstracts.Below are 2 examples of her late works.However, I was more interested in 2 artifacts accompanying the exhibitions.

The first, is her palette of watercolor paints – probably produced by some German factory.

The biggest surprise for me was the box of oil paints.

When I looked closer, I saw a familiar brand.

It turns out that the vast majority of paints in boxes are Winsor-Newton oils!Perhaps some of you knew this creator as a user of our wonderful brand, but for me, it was a pleasant surprise.

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