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Jul 25

A short teaser for the upcoming livestream and a bit of info.

Just a little teaser video for the upcoming livestream shows. Here we have some short excerpts from the book, along with Drawing in Dark'...

Karen Ruffles

Jul 19

Going live!

We are so excited this week to announce the first of this year's Tales in Sombre Tones events. Starting on Sunday 9th August at 9PM in th...

Karen Ruffles

Jul 3

Meet the artist

As the artist is writing this post I'm going to avoid referring to myself in the third person as that way madness lies - after years of w...

Karen Ruffles

Jun 1

Tales in Sombre Tones - the book that started it all.

Way back when (actually a couple of years ago but that doesn't sound as dramatic), Sean and I started talking about working on something ...

Karen Ruffles

May 26

Furniture and fine art, our journey to 3d.

Introducing the second of our project collaborators this week - the lovely and very talented Jan Lennon. After the person we had original...

Karen Ruffles

May 17

Sound and vision.

As we work on plans for upcoming virtual events, we thought this would be the perfect time to introduce some of the amazing people who ha...

Karen Ruffles

Apr 2

No touching- yet.

This weeks post has come at a slightly odd time - with Covid 19 having put a stop to touring and touching things for now, our plans for r...

Karen Ruffles

Mar 10

Further into another dimension.

Followers of our Facebook page and individual social media accounts will know that we've been working with a designer for the last few mo...

Karen Ruffles

Jun 28, 2019

Another dimension

We are excited to share the first 3d printed samples based on the original illustrations, which we wanted so that the blind and partially...

Karen Ruffles

Jun 28, 2019

Tour funding

Putting on this sort of touring show is an expensive business. We are determined to keep it free for the public which means sourcing fund...

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