The Enchanted Forest: Celebrating 200 years of Grimm’s Fairy Tales

I am taking part in an exhibition with other super talented illustrators, (I am working on the pieces for this show as I write...) I am inviting you to come join us for the show. Below are the details and we are looking forward to seeing you guys there!  

The Enchanted Forest

Celebrating 200 years of Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Wednesday 28 November – Saturday 8 December

FREE Exhibition

The first ever collection of Grimm’s fairy tales, entitled “Children’s and Household Tales”, was published in December of 1812, and two hundred years later it is still thrilling children and adults alike. To celebrate two hundred years of enchantment and magic; seven young up and coming illustrators will be interpreting these wonderfully dark and mysterious stories into a very special Christmas exhibition at Foyles. With inspiration taken from both the classics, such as Hansel and Gretel, and the less well-known tales like The Golden Bird; this exhibition is about interpreting and re-discovering a cultural legacy that has been with us for 200 years.

The contributing artists include Emma Block, Lesley Barnes, LauraBarrett, Natsuki Otani, Yelena Bryksenkova, Emmeline Pidgen and Karolin Schnoor.

Prepare to be spellbound as you enter The Enchanted Forest.

The Enchanted Forest is grateful to IdeasTap for providing funding through its Ideas Fund for this project.

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Venue:

The Gallery at Foyles, Third Floor, Charing Cross Road

Opening Hours:

Monday – Saturday 9am – 9pm

Sunday 10am – 6pm

*Please note that the Gallery may be closed when instore meetings and events are taking place.

Wedding invitation and Lovebirds

This was my wedding invitation design for my own wedding/renewal of vows. I also hand drew name cards for the guests representing my interpretation of them, such as Medieval lettering for a reenactment fan or red and green coloured comicky type for a zombie fan. So typography was a big part of my wedding plan so it naturally followed through to the invitations as well. The birds underneath the letters are called Red-billed Leiothrix, and they stay together as a couple so I thought it's appropriate for this occasion... 

I really liked these birds and made a separate piece, 'Lovebirds'. This is available as products on society6 so please visit my store if you are interested from here or from the blog side banner.

I am available for wedding invitation design and other wedding stationary, so shoot me an email for enquiry or visit this page to see other examples from my wedding.

A/W 2012 Station Magazine

My latest fashion illustration is for Station Magazine Issue 1, my mission was to draw 10 iconic styles from A/W 2012 fashion week collections. They are all beautiful and eye-popping to look at but some of them were so hard to draw due to detailed pattern and design, but I think I somehow managed to capture them. 

Please visit my portfolio if you want to see all of the originals!

saji: plate design

I was commissioned by saji to design the plates for everyone to have wonderful meals every time! Art direction is by MIHO from saji and Opportune Design, and the concept is to have 2 designs representing 'before meal' and 'after meal'. You can see my monkeys craving for meal in the red one and looking satisfied and relaxed in the black one.

They will be available at TOKYO CULTUART BEAMS or you can visit Magazine Library event from 7th to 10th May at Daikanyama Hillside Terrace if you are around Tokyo! 

お猿たちのいただきます！とごちそうさま！をイメージしたお皿です。こちらのお皿たちは東京渋谷のCULTUART BEAMSと5月7日から10日まで代官山ヒルサイドテラスでのMagazine Library展でお買い求めいただけます。

Collaboration with James Bent the creative mind behind La Mode Outré, Asian street style photography site that showcases some awesome new trends and brings out the best looks with a twist in their latest collaboration with fashion illustrators that takes the concept and amplifies it giving context to the illustration. VisitCollaboration with James Bent the creative mind behind La Mode Outré, Asian street style photography site that showcases some awesome new trends and brings out the best looks with a twist in their latest collaboration with fashion illustrators that takes the concept and amplifies it giving context to the illustration. Visit this link to see the project on their site.

Ryo is also available as products on my society6 shop!

Paradox Exhibition

I have been invited to created a piece for the exhibition with people from Designer's of Asia at Paradox Art Café in Malaysia. 

"Paradox is a restaurant café & community creative space nestled on the 1st Floor of the Oasis in Bandar Utama, offering a place to eat, drink, play and discover local art, photography, creative designs, creations, music, films and more."

Paradox sounds great, doesn't it?! I had a short time to do this but I enjoyed doing this one, especially with other talented artist from Asia! :)

Hand Made Type Workshop

Last year, I was featured in Hand Made Type Workshop, created by amazing Charlotte Rivers! This book gives the reader an in depth tutorial style approach to learning different techniques useful in creating fonts by hand. (my tutorial is in the photos above.)

This book is on Amazon and you can purchase it here as well.

Also, I'm planning to start creating custom made hand drawn post card like this for you to purchase,

It'll be drawn on 300gsm watercolour paper by colourful inks, you can request me any message or lines you like and colours you fancy, I'll draw it all by my own hand! It will be ideal for a gift for your beloved one, if you are interested in please shoot me an email!