Pascoe Pop Art in Q Magazine

Pascoe Pop Art was spotted in Saturday's Courier Mail weekend magazine, tucked away in the "Cool Hunter" section...

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Check out Home Canvas Art

Check out our new sister site: HomeCanvasArt.com !

Home canvas art is a great place for finding some beautiful interior design print ideas. Try the fun and useful ColourMatch technology to get the exact colour scheme for your needs.

HomeCanvasArt.com is open in Australia, Singapore and Hong-Kong.

Pascoe Pop Art Hong Kong!

In our continuing manic efforts to transform the world into our own Pop Art vision we're now locally producing Pascoe Pop Art in Hong Kong.

Welcome to all our new Hong Kong friends and vistors at www.pascoepopart.com.hk!

Pascoe Pop Art on TV

Brisbane Extra recently ran a story on internet-based business owners and were nice enough to cater to Matt's unquenchable thirst for local fame by giving him a few minutes of air time. Click PLAY above to see the story for yourself.

Obi the Wonderdog Makes Headlines!

Congratulations to Obi on making the Lava section of the widely read Manly Daily!


To read more about turning your pet photos into Pop Art click here.

Sydney Telegraph on Pascoe Pop Art

We were very happy to hear we'd made the inside back page of the Telegraph last week.



Click here to read the story by Lisa Toia.

Website integrity and customer interaction worthy of news

The Courier Mail, 15th November 2007

"INSPIRED by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and the 1950s pop art movement, Brisbane firm PascoePopArt has created hundreds of customised canvases."

Read the article here.

Pop Art takes to the air

And now for something completely different... Try our online Paper Plane throwing challenge.


Fly your craft past over 60 recent pop art works in our online gallery. Also available as a Facebook application: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=10888382752
Enjoy! And please let us know if you have any feedback or notice any bugs...

Remind Me Later

Introducing Pascoe Pop Art Email Reminder...

Matt recently created this new function for the Pascoe Pop Art website. It's an automatic email reminder service for those who are thinking about getting a Pop Art portrait for a future occasion, such as a birthday or anniversary. Simply enter in the date you would like to be 'prodded' about the upcoming occasion, and we'll send you an automatic email to remind you.

So not only will you be reminded about the wonderful gift idea of a Pop Art portrait (!), you will never forget a special occasion again!

Pop Art customers are donating hundreds to MSF!

Our thanks to Pascoe Pop Art customers in January and February. We have just made another donation to MSF of 10% of proceeds from the Pop Art portraits you purchased. Your contribution will have a vast affect on the quality of life of so many people less fortunate than ourselves.

This diagram is from the MSF donations page:


Read about some of the programs our most recent donation will specifically fund.

Pascoe Pop Art donates 10% of all sales proceeds to Medecins Sans Frontiers

Manage your Share House

Look familiar?

Matt's been busy. In addition to popping all our customers artworks, he's just launched a new website called www.sharehousemanager.com.

If you live in a shared house or flat, this website can help you keep track of all your bills, important dates and even shared chores.

The website automatically contacts all members of the household and reminds them when bills are due, along with who owes how much to whom. The site takes over the job of chasing up each householder whenever money is owed and generally removes the hassle from share house living.

Manage your share house bills with share house manager.

Style Magazine features our Pop Art

Feature in Brisbane's Style Magazine, February 2007.

Stop Press

Our first bit of media attention came with a great story in Queensland's Courier Mail.



Click here to read the article. Or go to PascoePopArt.com to view our collection of personalised Pop Art portraits.

Social Entrepeneurs...

This journey into the economic opportunities offered by the world wide web has really got me thinking of where it can take us (us meaning you, me and the rest of the world). I mean, if two well-educated Aussies can sit in their rented apartment with little more than a couple of laptops and a good internet connection and start a global enterprise with a budget of less than $1000… (ha ha, now you know how loaded we are!)… what amazing opportunities are there then available to others who are far less fortunate than ourselves? So as I’m learning more and more of what the web has to offer, I’m trying to think of ways that to apply this knowledge in ways other than building up my own cash flow.

Fortunately I’m not the only one! (it’s going to be a long while yet before my skills are going to save an under-developed nation!) There are plenty of social entrepreneurs out there and I’m very interested in learning more about them and promoting what they do. This website – www.kiva.org – is an awesome example. This is what they do:

“Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you've sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.”

Have a look at the website, and even better, sign up if you’re in a position to do so. And if you have any of your own ideas or know of other people doing amazing things, let me know!

The Bashful Blogger

Ok, am slowly getting my head around this whole ‘blogging’ concept. If you’d asked me what Blogging was a couple of months ago, I’d have had images of some cave-man type dude hitting another cave-man type dude over the head with a wooden club (hmm anyone else get that or is it just me?). But being a bit more of an 'internet' chick these days, I asked Google, "What is blogging?" and Google told me "it is the act of writing in one's blog. To blog something is to write about something in one's blog. This usually involves linking to something the author finds interesting on the internet." Ahhh so it's all perfectly clear to me now!

I’m also slowly, shyly, tippy-toeing my way into some online communities… they can be a little intimidating for the first timer!! There are hundreds, sometimes thousands of people on a forum at any given time, communicating with each other. If you’ve got something to say, and I mean anything, it seems you’re bound to find a forum with a very willing membership who are more than ready to listen to you, praise you, bag the shit out of you or simply give you a whole new perspective on things.

I decided to ask some experts – members of art and photography forums - what they think of Pascoe Pop Art portraits. Geez, it’s like turning up to the first day at a new school… the fear of rejection… wanting to make the right impression right from the word go… knowing, just KNOWING, that the “Yeah I’m cool, I know what I’m doing” appearance you’re trying so hard to maintain is going to inevitably come crashing and burning down…

This was the first response I got:

“Yeah they’re not really that great. I definitely wouldn’t want one of them on my wall.”

Ouch, so not a good start! Thankfully, some more comments came through later that were far more encouraging. Extremely encouraging in fact. Phew, made me feel a little better about cracking into the scene... though it's a big, bad world in there! I've got a long way to go, but I'm pretty happy with how much I've learnt so far...

Doctors Without Borders

This is my favourite part about starting up the business. Even before we had the personalised Pop Art idea, Matt and I were tossing around business ideas with the intention of diverting a percentage of profits to charitable organisations. We’ve got a few more ideas on the boil of how we’d like to do this (and encourage more businesses to do it). But for now, we are really happy to be donating 10% of our sales proceeds to Médecins Sans Frontières, Doctors Without Borders. They are a fantastic organisation and one that has had a huge impact in times of crises worldwide.

We’ll be publishing a cumulative total of donations made to Doctors Without Borders on the website. It will be great to watch that number grow! Keep an eye out for it soon.

It started with a family photo…

The idea for Pascoe PopArt really started when I had a family photo printed on canvas for Mum for her birthday. The whole process was done online – did a google search, found a canvas printer (Brilliant Prints) that seemed really professional, emailed my photo and two days later had a high quality, framed canvas in my hot little hands – the Derrick kids never looked so good! Needless to say it was a hit with Mum.

Both Matt and I were so impressed with the service, professionalism and quality that this printing service offered… we didn’t even have to pay for it until we saw the final work. Of course, they were guaranteed repeat business from us for their efforts, and we couldn’t help but want to spread the word about them.

So it really got us thinking about the best way to run a business online. Most businesses seem to entice their customers with false promises and low prices, only to catch them out later with fine print and bad quality. But we figure, if you are offering a service that you actually believe in, and operate honestly and professionally, you’re going to have customers who not only want to buy from you again, but they want to tell their friends about you too! You couldn’t get a better marketing strategy than that as far as I’m concerned.

So, these were the kind of conversations we were having, but we had no idea how far it was going to take us!

From little things, big things grow…

Picture this… Matt and Rachel sitting on a bus. Bus pulls up in front of a bar. Rachel comments on the artwork – some funky pop-art paintings of celebrities mounted on canvas. (Rachel still in her obsession with canvas prints, wants to have everything printed on canvas). “Wouldn’t it be awesome to see your own photo up on the wall as art like that”, says Rachel, as she looks at Kate Moss’s pop-art portrait (the fact that Kate Moss is, oh, a world super model, and Rachel is, well, just Rachel, was inconsequential to Rachel as she started picturing the transformation her own portrait would undoubtedly make). “Not a bad idea”, says Matt.

And Matt being a man of acting on his words, (Rachel would have just talked about it for a while), didn’t let the idea stop there. Some brainstorming sessions on the deck that night over a few cold beverages, and well, here we are!