Vicky Yorke Designs

I'm delighted to finally be able to share with you that I have collaborated with  Captivate Brands Ltd.  on a new collection of beautiful licensed mugs.  ' Midwinter' is a selection of designs inspired by the forest with patterns including forest flora, oak leaves, trees and forest animals including foxes, hares and birds. It's a cosy collection that is perfect for transitional interiors between Autumn and Winter with the colour palette making it perfect for Christmas and the festive season too.  I worked closely with Captivate over a number of months to help them select some of my favourite and most on trend designs, and we have teamed these with fashionable shapes to create a fresh and stylish selection of 40 mug designs co-branded under their  Siip Fundamental  collection.  'Contoured' is a collection of continuous line drawings and here fashionable and stylish face illustrations are adorned with flower crowns in honour of female strength and unit...

  The shop is now re-open after its little break and as I continue to restock for Christmas, I wanted to address some changes you might have noticed.  As many of you know, I opened the shop in 2020 during the pandemic as a way to keep my business going and as a place to sell some of my licensed products and the handmade items I would normally be selling at craft fairs. I really appreciated your response. I was, and remain, so grateful for your support during such a difficult period for me while I was shielding. Not only did it bring in much needed income, but it offered me a connection to the outside world as I chatted to customers and other store owners online. As the world, (including my own little shielding world), has opened back up I have found myself busier and busier with freelance projects and licensing again, which is great because that’s the core of my business, but I’ve also found I’ve really been neglecting the shop this year, which makes me sad. (I’m really quit...

It's been quite a long time since I posted on this blog and A LOT has happened in that time! I'm not sure why I stopped writing, especially as I spent almost all of 2020 and 2021 essentially locked up at home shielding from the Covid-19 pandemic because I have Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia and that made me clinically extremely vulnerable. It was a tricky time and I had lots of time on my hands to write something, but I think instead I threw myself into the escapism of designing. Did you know my licensing portfolio now contains well in excess of 3500 pieces of art?! So my time during the pandemic was not entirely wasted!  I thought it was about time I got back to it, so in case you haven't been following me on instagram over this time, this is a little catch up blog to tell you what I've been up to since I last wrote. (Even if you do follow me, sometimes I forget to share stuff, so there might still be something you can learn below!) :-) 1) I opened an online store .   Dur...