Updated March 2026
Printed postcards and greetings cards make my art accessible at lower price points.
Printed postcards sell at £0.50 each, in 2025 a new postcard linked to Swanage Carnival theme was sold for £1* that includes a donation to Carnival (now £0.50) and are available in 7 (from April 2025) designs. Originally aimed as pocket money pieces for some younger visitors they have worked for that but also been popular with grandparents looking for something for grandchildren.
The greetings cards range sell at £2 each or in multiples of 3 for £5.
The cards match some prints but not all. They included a range of scenes and activities and the Christmas card ‘Santa over… ‘ series.
Printed postcards
These are 6 x 4 size with postcard details printed on the reverse and are available in four designs. They sell at £0.50 each.
Originally drawn in 2018 when I had a bay to exhibit and sell art at the Purbeck Artisan Yard. I drew this one day when on duty. I sat outside initially then had to take photos to work from as it started to rain. One of the yard issues was always trying to help people to locate it, this was used for the yard for several years.
I was taking part in some sea kayaking courses at the time and this linked to learning about navigation buoys. The cross section idea was to show different layers of the Jurassic area, completely fictional. Drawing it at the angle means it works as a portrait or landscape issue. Originally intended as a pocket money purchase for children visiting it is more commonly bought by grand parents for their grandchildren.
A popular theme with visiting children, the interest in undersea links to pirates, treasure and sea creatures although we don’t have sharks and hammerhead sharks locally.
A view that most don’t get of Old Harry Rocks travelling past by boat. It takes on a different scale from the water than walking to the top of the cliffs.
2025
3 additional designs. Two inspired by inventing Art for Fun dinosaurs during Swanage Carnival Week 2024.
One inspired by Carnival theme ‘Cirque de Swanage’ for 2025 * which was sold for £1 each and included a donation to carnival 2025. Now available for £0.50 like all of the other postcards.
Greetings cards
My series of greetings cards have developed since I started AndyKnillArt in 2017. They have remained at the same sales price since I started of £2 each or 3 for £5 and have been a great introduction to my art for many people both customers and recipients.
The card design that launched AndyKnillArt as a business was from an original drawing done on Swanage Beach in December 2016 of the beach huts during the 2016 Artisans on the Beach event.
I approached Swanage Information Centre which at the time was temporarily housed at the back of the Town Hall. They agreed to order cards to sell and asked me to produce some other designs. The following are part of that original set and continue to be good sellers for me.
This was the original design I submitted, the one adapted for Swanage Town Council included an enlarged beach and Ballard Down. I never sold that version myself.
This was not adopted so I sold it myself looking back towards The Downs on the south of the bay.
Now on sale until stock sold (£0.50 each)
A historical view as within months of me drawing this the blue spa huts were added. Sales of these have petered out as people remembering this layout are about less.
I then submitted my pen and ink (black and white cards) and two photo designs. Some of these drawings were based on sketches from before AndyKnillArt was a thing.
Based on a field sketch from a geography teachers trip when my camera battery died.
Now on sale until stock sold (£0.50 each)
A very simple but instantly recognisable Purbeck landform.
Now discontinued
Also based on that field trip and a geographer’s field sketch.
Now on sale until stock sold (£0.50 each)
Or as it has become better known ‘Studland Landrover’ as an admirer of Land Rovers on various visits to Knoll beach – both National Trust vehicles and others based there.
This is a card I have sold many hand coloured versions of and is an aspect of my cards that I will return to under a later section as part of original art.
Based on previous holidays pre moving to Dorset along the North Norfolk coast.
Now on sale until stock sold (£0.50 each)
Drawn from an original sketch on an Urban Sketchers trip to Cambridge. Stock now sold off and discontinued.
Inspired by a signpost opposite the drive to the first house we rented in Purbeck but used to show Dorset’s relative position and modified in many hand coloured and added to cards for Christmas, Valentines Day,additional locations.
Based on a stuffed specimen in the Colchester Natural History Museum that I visited on a sketching trip in 2016 – the title of the card includes a reference to the stuffed aspect as the only reason I got to draw this and it took three attempts to get the dimensions correct.
Photo cards
I thought for a while that this might be an idea I would develop more as I take ‘000s of photos every year but in the end these two cards from 2017 have been the only ones I have done.
I was pleased with this shot with the wing tips close to the water.
Now on sale until stock goes (£0.50 each)
One of the privileges of renting upon Houns Tout for our first 3.5 years in Purbeck was the wildlife that we got to watch on a regular basis. People told me how hares were a rarity, not in our garden – here in the bed by the dining room eating the lavender bed. For several years a popular card and also as a print.
2017 ended with the launch of the series which has represented up to a 1/3 of my card sales at times, much to the surprise of my printer. Moving to the Jurassic coast I was most surprised in 2016 to not find the local landscape and coastscapes represented. Out of this came the ‘Santa over Purbeck and subsequently ‘Santa over Dorset’ cards. I now sell Christmas cards all year round and have many returning purchasers. I shall share the whole set (10 now in 2023).
Based on the view we had grown to love from Durlston Country park and including both Peveril and Ballard points. ( now replaced by 8 x 4 card)
More a representation of the end of Houns Tout, with Portland in the background. Not as popular a seller as unless people got out of their cars and walked they didn’t recognise the view. ( now replaced by 8 x 4 card)
I still have the original drawing idea in the shop which was modified so the river Frome was included and the strange idea of the quay clear of parked cars.
My biggest card seller and has remained so with over 600 sold now.
My first ever card to include Old Harry Rocks.
In the summer I added two locations further away.
Broadchurch has made this familiar view of the East Cliffs even better known and a place we holidayed in pre our move to Dorset.
Well, it had to be surely, why would Santa fly over the door?!? Now narrowing the gap to Corfe Castle sales above and now over 500 sold.
Based around the idea of an air race using the lighthouse as a mark.
A move to make all the Christmas series 8 x 4 panorama format but continuing the same focus for Swanage as the first card.
The new format allowed a better coastal view in my opinion that also showed Chapmans Pool better.
A late addition to the collection and starting to sell well in 2023. A change in sea colour.
2023 – I did start a new design around September / October but it didn’t work at first and then my flood barrier project took over for the whole of October and the momentum for this year was lost.
I also sell ‘Swanage Pier Reflections’ alongside the ‘Santa over…’ series as it represents the December lights on the pier offering a chance to reflect on loved ones lives.
The fact that this opens out to make a 16 x 4 design appeals.
2018 and my second year of AndyKnillArt saw me developing a wider range of locations within Purbeck and growing confidence in my art.
Drawn after taking a sunset photograph on the drive home from Artisans in the Beach 2017. The distinctive profiles of these two ridges from the ‘top road’ from Swanage through Langton Matravers and Kingston.
One of those ‘it says what it is’ titles. The view from the car park outside the Corfe Surgery on the south west side of the village and one of the few places where the whole of the castle mound can be seen.
Pen and Ink black and white version.
Two newer Corfe Castle designs from different viewpoints.
Drawn from the Arne road across Middlebere
Taken from South Street looking back into the village and back down to the valley and the castle.
My only square design to date. Swanage beach is popular for dog walks and people walking along it but at times of the year others can be seen out on the water as well like this kayaker.
An unusual title and possibly hasn’t helped sales at times but was the first sketching trip I did with Swanage Primary Schooling 2018 and when I managed to draw alongside the children. In subsequent years there wasn’t the chance for me to draw as much
Alternate title could be Ballard Down and is why it normally sells.
This was inspired originally by sitting as an artisan at the beach huts over December 2017. Being there early for a parking space and seeing sunrise (on the drier days) and after 4pm seeing sunset and the night sky before packing up and setting off home. This has had a resurgence of interest since 2023.
‘From Prince Albert Gardens North Across Swanage Bay‘ was the original and far too long a title hence the shortened version I use when recording sales. Popular for showing a range of boats in the bay and the darker patches of sea because of the cloud shadows crossing the bay.
This was drawn based on photos taken from the ferry to Brownsea from Poole Quay. The foreground is the lagoon on the north side of the island which is popular with wading birds.
Now on sale until stock sold (£1.00 each)
This is based on a snowy storm coming in over Houns Tout and the path through the woods. That was upside the home that we were renting at the time. This idea of looking up into trees is one have reused since.
Firing the winter of 2018 we had snow on the hills in Purbeck and I would venture out early with the camera to capture scenes before vehicles had tried to get out. This is the road from the woods above Kingston and out towards the Sheep Pen car park, it now looks different as the fields on both sides of the road were fenced off in 2020. My challenge was to draw a snow scene using black pen and it was more successful than I had hoped.
Now discontinued
Again a dark stormy sky linked to snow and the outbuildings it used for my Open Studio for Purbeck Art Weeks in 2017-2019. The winter trees also interest people. The building was a source of interest for people visiting it during PAW.
In 2019, the number of card designs decreased and four Christmas designs have already been shown above.
This card has shown how much people like to buy cards based on the location they are in. The coloured houses and the composition of this piece is often selected by potential customers but on turning it over to discover it is in Weymouth means many then put it back.
The original drawing based on the photos taken by Simon Wells a Swanage friend with his consent, I have then visited and sketched in this part of Weymouth on a number of occasions.
These two were drawn alongside each other. After doing the main beach huts several people had asked if I was going to draw other stretches of huts. This area around Burlington Chine and the northern extent of beach huts in the bay is a favourite spot of ours. I went back to try and recapture the style I had first used in December 2016 using a thicker line style. They haven’t proved as successful a seller, but I love their composition.
Both on sale until stock sold (£1.00 each)
Two local sunsets. The first had been printed by a Swanage – based printer initially as a print from the original and it wasn’t until I brought out the second piece that I had cards made. Based on a sunset from the end of the woods above Kingston heading towards Sheep Pen. Once I had this printed originally I felt that the trees were limited in style and I spent time over the next year developing my tree work
The Corfe Sunset is based on a sunset I watched driving back from work in Wareham. I kept stopping from Middlebere onwards to take photos. This view was looking back down Kingston hill by The Scott Arms pub, at the top of Corfe Castle emerging above a cloud inversion in the valley below.in the valley below.
Fizz is my cousin’s Collie. They came to visit in 2019 and were walking 1500 miles that year to raise fund for St Mungos. This drawing that captured one of the rare moments on our 8 mile walk from Kingston to Langton Matravers via Houns Tout, St Aldhelms Head and Dancing Ledge when Fizz stayed still- I took a photo in front of a drystone wall a favourite local feature of mine. Card and print sales helped towards the fund raising.
Now £1 each until stock sold off.
Where we lived up on Houns Tout we were on the edge of a shooting estate so we saw Pheasants all year round. The photo this was based on was taken with me looking at the bird while lying on my stomach. This meant that the tail was not visible. Anne, my wife suggested people would be reluctant to buy it without the tail – this has been the case at times, I stuck to my original view – as an artist listen and think about feedback. I am pleased with the record of the pheasant’s plumage.
Now on sale until stock sold (£0.50 each).
Based on a summer version of the Christmas card. Inspired from the view from the South West Coast Path.
Inspired by the sunset we would see as we drove up to the house that we rented up on Houns Tout. The winter trees providing a lovely frame.
This was drawn off the back of an Instagram photo posted by one of Swanage lifeboat crew on first practice post lockdown. Once drawn and pleased with the result it has become a way to fund raise for our lifeboat station. Each card sale contributes £0.50; and each A4 print £5 – to date I have raised £233 and the original piece still waits being auctioned off too.
It also shows when I started to use white gel pen on top of colours to show stormier seas.
When I belonged to Swanage Sea Rowing Club I took part in a couple of trips where we saw the lighthouse from the sea. It is a view only a few visitors will see and appeals as our coastline is so special.
When I started doing my art I said I would try to find different views of familiar local places. It took a number of years until I worked out some alternative views of Old Harry Rocks.
This card is based on doing a kayak trip out to the rocks from Studland Bay and I didn’t draw it until I had made the journey myself.
This has become my go to picture of Old Harry. I had drawn a smaller version in my first year of selling my art and always meant to come back to the view. Inspired by day trips to Brownsea Island in Poole harbour and looking across Bramble Bay (home of the houseboats), the Studland peninsular and Studland Bay to Old Harry.
Since drawing this I have searched for others drawing the same perspective but not found one yet. I feel that the Studland peninsular is a neglected area in local art and is something I may return to in the future
Now a series of tree based pieces that came after a year of practising tree sketches as I felt I could do better. Winter leafless trees remain a favourite subject for sketching.
Drawn and based on the trees on the walk up to Durlston Castle on Isle of Wight Road. This was the first of the new tree series and I was honoured to be asked by the buyer of the original if they could name their counselling practice after it.
This is a viewpoint along Isle of Wight road path leading up to Durlston Castle. The words refer to an engraved atone in the wall. Since I drew this piece the wall has been extended to a second course of stones and the view has been widened. A favourite view for many looking back over Durlston Bay to Peveril Point and Ballard Down either side of Swanage Bay.
To match “Last of the leaves” but at a different time of the year. The trees drawn from, were within 10 metres of the previous piece. A completely different feel with the range of greens.
When I went in search of autumnal leaves changing colour there wasn’t enough definition in the trees used in the previous two pieces but nearby close to ‘ The Shed’ was this branch of autumnal changes.
As many of my shop visitors and return customers know I love boats and being on the water so the next cards were all inspired by activities on the water, and in most cases in Swanage Bay.
Stock all sold – now discontinued
One of out club sailors in Swanage Sailing Club is a member of the British Sailing squad and he was the first person I got to see sailing a foiling dinghy in the bay. Through Sam Whaley I followed other Waszp (boat class) sailors and saw photos of this challenge to Ross the EnglishChannel by British and French sailors. The phot consent was obtained from James Tomlinson and shows these distinctive boats, hulls above the water off The Needles on the west side of the Isle of Wight.
Now on sale until stock sells £1.00 each
Golden horizon a cruise ship built as a modern sailing ship did its maiden voyages long the south coast before lockdowns shut off ll such activity. When it was in Poole I waited monitoring marine trackers and the webcam feed from Poole harbour mouth to cat has it emerged from the shadow of Ballard Down. I enjoy observing tall ships and their rigging makes them a good topic to draw.
This is from the fisherman area below the Swanage Bot Park on the south shore of the bay with the lifeboat station behind. The mix of nots and fishing equipment reminds us that there are still people working from the sea. On this occasion there were a number of different coloured tenders shore on the slipway.
Now on sale until stock sells £1.00 each
Showing the activity of kayaking in the by and modelled roughly on my wife Anne and i out in our double sit on top kayak. kayaking in a range of craft is popular in Swanage Bay in both owned and rented craft. From casual leisure, sea kayakers venturing further field, kayak fishing they all enjoy being on the water.
Drawn from a Saturday morning training session for junior sailors at the sailing club when a variety of dinghies are out on the water, as they are for adult training on Tuesday evenings. Club racing can be seen on Thursday evenings and Sunday mornings often.
Now the most popular water craft in the bay and this was prompted by no one else in town selling a card with them on. I have drawn them a number of times in groups and singly. Unfortunately some users do not respect the sea and have had to be rescued.
Often in September we receive visits and excursions from the Paddle Steamer Waverley, the last surviving Clyde steamer from Scotland. Fortunately I have a clear view of it docking at the pier from home.
One of the happy sights in the bay is seeing the gulls eating their natural food. So when fishing boats are out in the bay they will often have an accompanying flock of gulls.
Based on a Dorset harbour further west as it shows a range of different types of water craft and hence the use of a generic name.
We now return to a range of local scenes;
A popular local area to visit and the work done over recent years on the pathways offering views to the south of Swanage and seabirds and remains of coastal quarrying. The lighthouse is the Anvil Point one drawn before from the sea.
This formerly stood at the junction of the High Street and Steer Road and when traffic increased was stored in a local quarry. Recently re-erected at the top of Prince Albert Gardens and provides a great navigation reference when out in the bay. I have kept this in the card series s I like it as a local historical item, not a sales success so far.
This wraps around the card slightly based on an original measuring 80 by 30 cm that show the Ocean bay section of the beach as it moves away from the road access. Taken on a low sprint tide so that the se has fallen below the groynes on the beach.The navigation basket on the pole unfortunately fell off not long after I completed this piece and the bare wooden pole that remains is not as interesting to look at.
Pebble shore
This was drawn based on photos taken at beach level at the far northern end of Swanage Bay below Ballard Down. This was before the landslides of 2025 which have changed the amount of beach. The angle of the photos concentrated on the chalk pebbles at the top of the beach profile. The nickname I gave the A3 original piece this is taken from is the “6 hours pebble piece” as this was the amount of time spent in total drawing the line drawn pebbles that show the lines of previous tides.
This is the bay on the left approaching Worbarrow Bay from Tyneham village. It appealed as a chance to add colour and then pebble detail to it.
This represents a section from a piece showing how in November 2023 some of the art panels I drew for the “Flooding Swanage with Art” trail were knocked over long with the 2.5 tonne blocks they were fixed to by a winter storm. The damaged panels were recovered and have been refined on blocks showing how nature can damage things. The panels are currently on their third winter on display at the mercy of the weather and sea, The best art project I have done to date.
Well known local landform on the Purbeck south coast. Dancing Ledge was a quarry and the ledge was part of the area used to load stone onto boats. In the lower platforms local school blasted out a pool which could be used at low tide and is popular with outdoor / wild swimmers today. The area is also popular with coasteerers and rock climbers. This drawing was adapted from a friend’s summer photo (with consent).
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