The Queen of Silks – an interview with Fiona Stolze

By pennytristram on January 4, 2012 in art, Art blogging, art journalism, artist interviews, artists, Uncategorized

Here at Wilder Street we’re lucky enough to have a series of beautiful silk paintings gracing our walls, all by silk mandala artistFiona Stolze. Here Fiona tells me in detail about her inspirations and practice.

Penny – Have you had any kind of formal art education? If so, how did it go?
What are your views on art education?

Fiona – I’m actually a self taught artist Penny. I’ve always been very arty and
loved to paint and be really creative.

Mark Keane Reveals All on Kundalini Yoga

By pennytristram on December 21, 2011 in Blogging, Interviews, SEO blogging, Uncategorized

I’ve started going regularly to Kundalini Yoga at Wilder Street on Wednesdays, and it’s great – as well as being good exercise and personally transformative….read more

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Time for a Catch Up.

By pennytristram on December 21, 2011 in Art blogging, art journalism, artist interviews, artists, Blogging, copywriter, copywriting, Interviews, SEO blogging, SEO writing

Mmmmm - Cake.

It’s nearly Christmas, but all is still busy as the proverbial buzzing insect at PTC. We’ve been quiet for a few weeks, working on a large-scale research project, but now we’re back in action with blogging and copywriting happening aplently. We’re very much enjoying working with our lovely regulars at Art2Arts, Cititec, Citywire, Bristol Life Drawing, and MySocialAgency and of course, we love blogging for Wilder St Studio, which is the PTC headquarters. Watch the blog for more interviews with Wilder St yoga teachers and artists, all coming soon.

There are two big, exciting bits of news that we’re feeling rather smiley about. First of all, the Figurative Art blog is undergoing some major changes which you can expect to see emerge over Christmas. We’ve also begun work with a new blogger, Lirazelf - you can see the excellent job she did in interviewing artist Katy Sullivan. Expect lots more from her over the coming months.

The second exiting piece of news is that we’re about to publish full web copy and regular blog and social media updates for a rather fabulous luxury holiday cottage organisation. We’ll post updates in the new year when it’s all done.

Wishing you an artful festive season and a copy-tastic New Year.

PTC xx

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Katy Sullivan – People & Portraiture

By pennytristram on December 13, 2011 in art, Art blogging, art journalism, artist interviews, artists, Blogging

Katy Sullivan is an English portrait artist, whose second ever oil painting was selected for the Holburne Portrait Prize exhibition Read more…

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More Evidence For the Importance of Proofreading

By pennytristram on October 11, 2011 in Blogging, copywriter, copywriting, Editing, Proofreading

Or why you shouldn’t confuse willies with wellies.

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Treasures Within 300 Metres of Wilder Street

By pennytristram on October 10, 2011 in art, Art blogging, art journalism, artists, Blogging, SEO articles, SEO blogging, SEO writing

Anyone making use of desk space or coworking at

Bristol’s Wilder Street Studio is

lucky enough to be smack bang in the middle of one of the UK’s

most exciting creative areas. Read more...

: Wall-to-wall Andy Council and Buff Monster

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Coworking in Bristol – how coworking turned my work life around.

By pennytristram on September 21, 2011 in Blogging, digital media, SEO blogging, SEO writing

Coworking is such a new concept that spellcheckers don’t recognise it. Read more…

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What we’re up to at the moment :)

By pennytristram on September 20, 2011 in art, Art blogging, art journalism, artist interviews, artists, Blogging, copywriter, copywriting, digital media, Editing, Interviews, Proofreading, SEO articles, SEO blogging, SEO writing, social media

Autumn has well and truly begun to fall, and PTC is super busy with copywriter and SEO writer services in particular.

I’m doing lots of blogging and writing static articles for Art2Arts. These posts are all about contemporary art in the UK. I’m outlining exhibitions and galleries, along with explaining modern art styles and introducing readers to some exciting and cutting-edge artists. PTC’s blog, Figurative Art, continues to showcase interviews with internationally known artists. Following my recent chat with colourful illustrator Eduardo Bertone, the next insightful artist interviews to go up are with painters Katy Sullivan and Francoise Nielly.

I’m also being a weekly blog writer for MySocialAgency, writing on trends and developments in social media and the digital world.

As well as this, PTC has been working on copy for Cititec’s Singapore brochure, as well as some research for Citywire, along with editing and transcription for a range of individual clients.

To round off September nicely, we’re about to embark on writing full copy for a new luxury spa website, as well as developing their social media campaign. Watch this spa! I mean space.

Oh and as if that wasn’t enough, I’m also organising Bristol Jelly, a free co-working event, held at the uber-cool Deckchair Creative Agency.

Until next month,

Penny x

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