Its been a while since we had some new acrylic keys in the shop but its been worth the wait..... look at all the colours!!

A very dear friend of mine got married this weekend and she asked me if she could use the border that appears in a lot of my papercuts as bunting. What a stroke of genius!!! You can see how well it worked here.

I made this bunting to celebrate the third birthday of my shop Ryantown, I can't believe how quickly the last three years have gone. OMG We're 3!!!

About a year ago 'Coast' magazine asked me if I'd like to design a modern day take on the classic Railway Poster of yesteryear. I did a design celebrating Rye. I've just done a rework on that design and have produced it as a screenprint. Funilly enough I'm in Rye right now as I write this. I've been reading Edward Burra's Biography who lived just up the hill from Rye all his life - but he always called it 'Tinkerbell Town'!
My new friend in Rye, Sarah, is opening a shop here in September, Lion Street Store, and she will be selling this print of Rye in Tinkerbell Town itself !!!

We've just finished printing a brand new tile!!!

now available on etsy

Every year since my shop Ryantown opened, we've celebrated the anniversary with a limited edition screen print and this year is no different.
'Believe In Goodness' is the Ryantown 3rd anniversary print and has a special price to match. The print is just slightly smaller than a3, its in an edition of 200 and is £160. You can find it in Ryantown or on etsy
Happy Birthday Ryantown!!!

As well as the money boxes, we've just done a new mug!!!

Now that the massive book project is out of the way, its nice to spend some time working on some smaller, more self contained jobs. I've been meaning to make a money box for ages. When I was very small, I used to love hoarding change. Hopefully this little ceramic piggy bank might rekindle that saving instinct in a young boy or girl.

Click here to buy on Etsy!

Ryantown Tour Bus Summer 2011 T-shirts have just been printed by Stu and Lilli at Error Solutions and are now in Ryantown!!

In the latest edition of Elle, you can find the BEAUTIFUL Lorna Ryan in the 'Love + Fashion' feature!!!

If anyone is going to the Royal Academy Summer Show, look out for two prints of mine!!

make animated gifs like this at MakeAGif

At the moment we are working on an edition of 30 cats. Its a lot of work. I'm taking inspiration from all these here cats I made for the show last year at the Shire Hall Gallery in Stafford.

You may know that every so often, I make a new edition of height rulers to sell in Ryantown.

This is the newest edition and is slightly different to any I've done before.
The rulers are made from ply wood, this particular one has a hand-painted yellow strip down the left side and a flash of orange down the left edge. Over the bare wood are hand-painted light blue clouds, the rest of the wood is left bare to show the grain. They are then hand-printed with red ink for the illustration and indigo inks to show the measurements. The rulers measure up to 7 foot and are signed in an edition of 20.

Available in the shop this weekend for £315 each!!!

Studio Music is a brilliant website listing artists/designers/photographers top 10 tracks to listen to in their studios whilst they're working. A new artists' top ten is added at the beginning of each week and this week, its me!!!

Every artist writes a little about why they love to listen to each track and you can listen along whilst reading, its really quite brilliant!

You can read and listen by visiting the website here

Stylist magazine in the UK ran a competition for their readers to vote for their favourite cover out of all 75 issues of the magazine. A little while I designed a cover for their 'Perfect Picnic' issue. I meant to blog about it but I forgot! But this week it was announced that my cover won anyway so thank you to anyone who voted!!!

They also featured Ryantown as one of the '100 addresses Stylist wants you to know'

I'm sorry my blog has been a bit neglected for a while, as you may already know, I've been working on a new book which I have written and illustrated myself. At 60 pages long, it's been a bit of a mammoth task to cut them all in 4 months but we've almost finished!!!
The book is called 'A Sky Full Of Kindness' and will be available to buy in October of this year.
After each cut is finished, they are coloured using spray paint. Right now, we're at spraying and sticking stage - hopefully these photos will give you an idea of how these final steps are done and why I've been so quiet recently!!!

Tomorrow is your last chance to bid on the Royal wedding plate I designed for the magazine Living Etc to raise money for homeless charity, Shelter. You can bid by going here. This plate is a complete one-off, made here at the studio in Royal blue with hand-painted gold lustre rings. All the proceeds go to Shelter, so you are investing in a worthy cause by bidding.

If you miss out on the auction, you can also get a version of the plate in black and yellow at Ryantown or Etsy.

If you're reading this in the UK, have a great day off tomorrow!!!

I have just done a little interview with 'Heal's Reveals' the blog of interior design shop, Heal's. You can find it on the Heal's website here!!

Here is the new teatowel which is now on sale on Etsy and will be available in Ryantown this weekend.

After some sampling, we've got a design and colourway for the new teatowels!! Jackie has been testing out loads of colours this morning - here you can see the whole process.
The first colour is printed with water-based ink and then cured before the keyline is printed over the top. These will be in the shop this weekend and maybe even a few on etsy, look back for a post tomorrow with the chosen colourway.....