#drum parade

[lymphomalass]

Today I wanted to share that I’ve entered the London Graphics Centre and Theo Paphitis Art Prize 2026 with my piece "Batala Mersey Drummers Parade at Northwich Pina Colada Festival" created with pens on paper.

If you'd like to hear about the inspiration behind the art, please head over to:

I started this piece in August, three months before I finished it in November 2025, and you might be able to guess from just looking at it w

Wish me luck!

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

[lymphomalass]

Hope your week’s gone well. Mine’s turned out to be expensive, with my laptop failing to install the Windows 11 update and now unable to pick up wi-fi. So I’ve a new one coming in 12 days and in the meantime I’m managing with my old laptop tethered to pick up wi-fi from my mobile phone. All that’s why I’m posting so late.

Today I wanted to show you my pen piece “Batala Mersey Drummers Parade at Northwich Pina Colada Festival”. I included it in my November newsletter, but I wanted to do a little more work on it after that and I finally finished this afternoon!

Steve and I went to the Pina Colada Festival for the first time last August, and I was mesmerised by the drummers’ focus, energy and joy! I couldn’t resist taking photos and drawing this one with artists’ ink pens on paper. That limited the shades available for me to use but I think it added to the vibrancy and visual complexity of the scene!

The original is £75 unframed (including UK postage) or £95 framed. Please just message me to make your purchase. And it’s available as prints and printed on all sorts of lovely things to your order, at:

I started this piece in August, three months before I finished it in November 2025, and you might be able to guess from just looking at it w

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

P.S. The first image is my art, the second is my photo.