Hello and welcome to DArTworld, my world of colour, reality and imagination in cards and prints. The subjects vary from the ancient and classical world right up to date but the thing that they have in common is the use of vibrant colour and the visual twist that I like to give my images. I hope you will love them.

Please also visit my second shop called Beaded Beasties, mixed media box frames of beaded dragonflies and other insects.

I love to rework my photographs with various digital processes to produce new, colourful images.

Hello I'm Derrick, welcome to my world - DArTworld - a world of colour, reality and imagination!

Since 2006 I have lived in the beautiful Scottish Borders just outside the very attractive and historic town of Melrose where for ten years my partner and I had a gift shop. Before that, we were guest house owners having returned to the UK after living and working in various countries for several years. Life has been interesting!

Throughout all that time I have always loved taking photographs, not as great works of art but as a record of the things and places I've seen over a lot of years. And now, I enjoy using all sorts of digital processes, sometimes just one, other times many, to give a photograph a very different and usually very colourful look. I twiddle the knobs on my computer every day experimenting and then share some of them via Instagram and Facebook.

I've had a selection of these images printed as greetings cards and postcards to bring a touch of colour into your life and help you brighten the day for your family and friends. I hope you all love colour as much as me. I've also had four images made into giclee prints, my Greek Wind Gods series, which marries my love of history and statuary.

I'd love to see my images on a wider range of products and hope to introduce more things in time. I hope you enjoy visiting DArTworld, do let me know if you have any thoughts or comments, I'd love to hear from you!

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