Lucky Dip Creature Badge

Lucky Dip Creature badge by Fiona Hamilton.
1.25" foil printed pin button badge.
Assorted colours and designs featuring birds, rodents and insects.

Finally, these best sellers are available online! In the days of our physical gallery we sold these by the bucketload, and whenever we go to fairs, we sell more of these than anything else!

These brightly coloured badges are made from drawings made by Fiona Hamilton and printed using matte and metallic foils. They feature sparrows, seagulls, mice, hamsters, bluetits, owls, ladybirds, dragonflies, wasps, bees and more. You can choose from birds, rodents and insects but the actual illustration on and colour of the badge you receive will be a lucky dip. That's where the fun is!

These badges have sharp points so are not suitable for young children.

About the Artist

Fiona Hamilton is a Bristol based printmaker. Her work explores the ecological sublime and an appreciation of the majesty of nature. She uses detailed intaglio etching, drypoint, lithography and chine collé to draw the viewer into an ethereal landscape that has an impact on our sense of place in relation to the natural world. She uses primarily black and white with natural tones of chine collé and sometimes layers of lithographic texture to introduce warmth to the stark palette and to invoke a sublime emotional connection. She works from sketches, photographs, notes and memory to create her prints.

Fiona has an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking from The University of the West of England (2023). Previously she studied Graphic Fine Art at Canterbury (2002) and established Soma Gallery in 2004.