Is there anything better than the first signs of spring? Well, is there?

Of all the trends this year, PlayMake is the most optimistic. As a direct response to the seriousness of the recession, PlayMake is all about having fun and being free and spontaneous with our creativity.

Featured artist Michael Lane easily loses himself behind his camera, moving around his subject to create unusual swashes of colour and light. In this collection of silvery, pure and simple photographs, yet another new perspective is discovered.

Love is in the air everywhere I look around Love is in the air every sight and every sound

February's featured artist Eydis S Luna Einarsdottir is an Icelandic transplant. Hailing from a geologically active landscape that is always changing, growing, moving, and transforming, her images give the term "get it while it's hot" a whole new meaning.

Pixelnation is an old school throw back to lo-fi versus hi-fi, Atari graphics in 56K rendered up to the size of a building or transferred into a complex algorithm of generative code, breaking it up into millions of colors, forms and displays.

Vancouver is proud to be host to the world this February, at a certain winter sporting event that everyone seems to be talking about! Sitting here at the epicenter, we are getting pretty excited too.

Arian C would spent the first year of his life living in a teepee on an Indian reservation in Maine, beginning of his non-conventional approach to photography and life. An avid traveler, Arian picks up on graphic details that might otherwise be missed.

Very much reflective of our current economy is our current design trend: Fortification. With a hard exterior, people are surrounding themselves with colours that make them feel comfortable and protected inside - a form of nesting and cocooning.

Fairly common, especially in Vancouver, and yet stunning and inspiring all the same. Come join us for some stellar cloud gazing!

This month's design trend supports our great need to escape. Escape can take many forms, escaping from day to day life, escaping to faraway lands, and our favourite, escaping from reality.

Greetings from some of the most beautiful places in the world! Wish you were here!

FBFA is proud to license works from artists all around the world. Here are some of our favourite landscapes from the far reaches.

Entirely self taught, Farmboy Featured Artist Doug Levy has spent the past six years umpiring professional baseball, a career full of 7:05 starts that left plenty of time for photographing sunrises in the small towns minor league baseball calls home.

**FBFA does not advocate drinking copious amounts of egg nog and spinning in circles amongst the Christmas lights. With a camera. Definitely not.**

Happy Holidays from all of us at Farmboy Fine Arts! See you in 2010!

As summer turns to fall our thoughts turn inward into the romantic recesses of our imagination, beautifully dark and equally enchanting.

In this month's design trend we look at elements of traditional native and aboriginal designs that can be reimagined and incorporated into illustrations, bold graphics and inspirational patterns.