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.

New illustration added on my website

As the title says!

Including Nirvana (the image below) which is one of the illustrations displaying at Yolanta hair and beauty salon in Mayfair. You can see all the new work here!

I also am experiencing with typography for making greeting cards, I wonder if you like the line at all...?

and I made a fan page of Illustration Rally on facebook as well, pretty active, ain't I?

Please become a fan of Illustration Rally! I promise you I won't let you down. :)

Featured in Computer Arts Magazine!

Here is wicked news! My work is in this month's Computer Arts Magazine as part of Japan feature! Unfortunately, my name got spelt wrong (Natsuki Osani, it says) and there was almost no-one called by that name on the internet so anyone who's interested in my work because of the article will never find me really.

My name is Natsuki Otani, not Natsuki Osani, I'm just writing this with a little hope that this blog post will give people a chance to reach to my website if there are any! If you are the one who's interested in my illustration and couldn't find my website, the link is below! :D

http://www.natsukiotani.co.uk/

Still, I'm really really happy about this, this is the first time my work ever appeared in such a major magazine. All the Japanese artists in the article are so talented and big names, (I'm not nearly good enough to be next to them honestly) you should keep an eye on those guys!

Shinnoske Sugisaki

Kamikene

Daijiro Ohara

Loworks

Kahori Maki

Heisuke Kitazawa

In the end, a big thank you to Nick Carson for such a wonderful feature.