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Celebrate the Season with Art: My 2025 Christmas Card & Holiday Collection

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 As the holidays draw near, I’ve been creating a new series of Christmas cards and festive art prints — each one inspired by the warmth, joy, and spirit of the season. From classic carols to sunny Southern Hemisphere celebrations, this year’s collection brings together the magic of Christmas from every corner of my world.


✨ Highlights from the Collection

  • “Silent Night, Holy Night” — a peaceful Nativity under a starry sky.

    Painterly Christmas illustration of Mary and Joseph kneeling beside baby Jesus under the Star of Bethlehem, with the words “Silent Night, Holy Night” above. Peaceful, glowing Nativity art celebrating the sacred beauty of Christmas.
    Silent Night

  • “The Little Drummer Boy – A Gift of Music” — the tender moment when a child offers his song to the newborn King.

    Traditional Christmas illustration inspired by The Little Drummer Boy, showing a humble boy offering his drum music to baby Jesus in the manger, surrounded by Mary and Joseph in soft golden light, with carol lyrics in elegant text.
    Little Drummer Boy

  • “Angels We Have Heard On High” and “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” — glowing, celestial scenes of light and harmony.

    Traditional Christmas illustration of three angels playing golden trumpets beneath a glowing star with the words “Angels We Have Heard On High.” Peaceful, vintage-inspired religious holiday art with warm gold, blue, and red tones.
    Angels We Have Heard On High

  • Southern Hemisphere Christmas art — Santa surfing at Venice Beach and Kiwi families at the batch (NZ beach holiday home).

    Vintage-style Christmas illustration showing a New Zealand family celebrating at their beach bach, with a BBQ, pōhutukawa tree, and ocean view. Santa hats, gifts, and sunshine evoke a relaxed Kiwi summer holiday atmosphere.
    A Kiwi Christmas

Each design was created in a warm painterly style, perfect for greeting cards, wall art, and holiday gifts available on my Redbubble store.

🎁 A Celebration of Traditions

From the sacred to the sun-soaked, these pieces celebrate the many ways we experience Christmas — through music, family, and quiet reflection. Whether you love traditional Nativity art or bright coastal Christmas scenes, there’s a design to bring cheer to your home or a smile to someone’s mailbox.

🕯️ Shop the Collection

Browse the full collection now on Redbubble — available as:

  • Greeting cards

  • Art prints and posters

  • Home décor and apparel

  • Stickers and gift items

Let art be part of your celebration this year. 🌟

Wishing you peace, joy, and creativity this Christmas season.

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Do Not Disconnect - The Real Digital Divide

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The fly in the ointment, Opito Bay, around 2007. This post was originally published in November, 2007. Almost two decades on, the photograph and the argument both feel — if anything — more relevant than they did then. I have updated this post lightly in May, 2026, some 19 years later! The Photograph I was on holiday in Opito Bay on New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula, sitting on the couch in the place we were staying at. A friend's iPod was resting on the coffee table, on top of a copy of The Economist from March 2005, whose cover story happened to be titled "The Real Digital Divide." A fly landed on the iPod's click wheel and stayed there. I reached for my camera, took the shot, and edited it later in Photoshop to give it the grungy, oversaturated look you see above. The fly on the iPod along with "The Real Digital Divide" struck me — immediately, and with a kind of emb...
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Samoan Youth

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This young man was preparing with his friends for his moment of fame on the stage at the Samoan Village at the Polynesian dance festival called Pasifika in Auckland in March this year. Samoan Youth Canon EOS 20D 1/30sec at f/20 ISO 200 Canon 70-300mm lens at 300mm
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Anza-Borrego Wildflowers

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Anza Borrego Desert State Park California Wildflowers This cluster of wildflowers is typical of the flowers in Plum Canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert this spring. Because of the dry and harsh environment, most of the flowers are tiny like the three in this photo. But what they lack in size, they make up for in color. It's pretty difficult to try and identify all these flowers, but I'm pretty sure the white one is Desert Pincushion. Help out if you can. I've been using the CalFlora.org website to try and identify the flowers in this series.
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