Horoscope pages for La Republica mag Velvet.

This week I have been busy printing HMS Ryantown tshirts to get them in the shop for our one year anniversary.

Here are two more of Louis De Bernieres book jackets I illustrated for Random House

These are my Leo illustrations for the Horoscopes I have been doing for Velvet Magazine.

I have agreed to do 6 monthly illustrations for Waitrose food magazine to go with Sophie Dahl's Column. She is a wonderful natural writer who seems to with great ease conjure up wonderful moods of smell and sensation in words. It is quite a challenge to try and keep up with her in image form. I hope I somehow manage to do her writing justice.

My new two colour screenprint Everything That Is celebrates the first year of my London based shop Ryantown. They are limited edition of 111 and shall be selling for £111 each so get one whilst you can! Available this weekend.

Each print is signed by me, reads "1st Year of Ryantown" and is editioned. They are also available to buy from my Etsy shop.

Afternoon Tea in Japan asked me ages ago to do some designs for all kinds of wet weather gear to launch for their Rainy Season collection, it's finally been launched and I must say those umbrellas look wicked !

This blog is pretty much 'all about ME!', but sometimes something comes along so brilliant that it distracts even someone as totally self obsessed as I am. My lady Lorna has taken a step sideways from creating beautiful denim bears to making the most fantastic corduroy daschunds. Here is my new pal Percy, he sits on my chair in the studio looking after it for me all day ! check out more of his kind at....
I LOVE DENIM

Bloomsbury Children's have just sent me a proof through of a Jacket I did for one of their books 'Troubadour'. I especially like the sparks in the sky and the blackness of the girls
silhouette, (if I say so myself !)

May 3rd Issue

Anybody fancy a game of 'Spot the Difference' ? More examples of 'versions' of my work can be found BY CLICKING HERE or deathhouse_works@yahoo.co.uk

This papercut was commissioned by 'The Ride' magazine.

If you happen to be in New York and have already been to see my work in Earnest Sewn's backroom you may also like to go to the Affordable Art Fair where TAG Fine Arts are showing some more of my work. The fair runs from May 7 -10 and can be found at 7 West 34th Street (Between 5th & 6th Avenues)

The show is at Earnest Sewn and is up until the End of May.
821 Washington St (at Gansevoort Street) in the Meat Packing District. New York City

I've been meaning to put up some pictures of us putting together the Pop up shop in Earnest Sewn, so here goes !

TAG Fine Arts are showing a selection of my work at the London Art Fair.

Stand 2,Royal Academy of Arts, Front Entrance, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

22 – 26 April 2009
Open daily 10am - 6pm. Friday late evening opening until 8pm

New colourways are now available at RYANTOWN and ETSY

This weeks Time Out has mentioned me in their pick of Spring's stylish events. Check out www.ryantownshop.blogspot.com for news about Ryantown!

The first issue of 'It's Nice That' has a piece about some of my favourite records

Grafik's April issue gives me a little mention in it's 'Essential Things To See and Do This Month'.

Since I've been doing this monthly horoscope gig for La republica mag 'Velvet' the month flies by so fast , it seems like only last week since I did the last one. Anyway here's the latest for Taurus. The irony is I'm not superstitious at all and don't actually believe in any of this horoscope stuff - but that's me all over, typical Scorpio !!!

I'm off to New York next week to launch Ryantown USA as a pop-up store in the states! Over the past months I have been busy getting ready for this exciting collaboration with Earnest Sewn. In the studio we have been producing new cushion covers, tiles and some rather lovely denim bears (produced with my wonderful Lorna). Come and see us if your are in the area!

This papercut was commissioned for The Ride

I was recently commissioned by Elle to do a papercut for The While Ribbon Alliance Charity.

TAG Fine Arts are showing a selection of my work at the International Art Fair You'll find them exhibiting from 19- 22 February 2009, location - stand 37, at this year's third 20/21 International Art Fair at the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore
Fair opening times: Thurs: 11am-9pm, Fri: 11am-8pm, Sat: 11am-7pm, Sun: 11am-6pm

The Easter egg packaging that I did for Fortnum and Mason are now in the shop ! Yum !

I've just finished the papercuts for Velvet's Aries horoscope.

The V and A (thats Victoria and Albert Museum)in london asked me to take part in their Mad Hatters late night event on 27th March, it's part of their Sephen Jones, Hats: an Anthology exhibition. I believe it will be part of a Parade !

As you can see I'm no hat maker and the major rule for me was to just keep piling it on until it looks done ! It's supposed to be a pill box mourning / funeral number hence the 'turning on the water works' veil !!!

PS This is modelled by super- assistant SUZIE !!!!!

The Rob Ryan and Tatty Devine necklace was in Monday's Metro paper

This weeks time out

My Bird Lady print was in todays Time's 2 supplement

An article with Italian magazine 'Velvet' February 2009 issue

For La Republica's Velvet magazine.

I have just received proofs from Puffin of a jacket design I did for them for last year, it's a story set in what I would call the dark ages, the inspiration for me for this was the title of William Manchester's book on the dark/early middle ages, 'A World lit only by fire'. I dont really make comment on anything besides my work on this blog thing but I think it would be unnatural to not mention Obama's inauguration yesterday. As the husband to a black woman and the father of mixed race children my heart yesterday was bursting with happiness and pride yesterday that such a good thing could happen in this world. I abhor patriotism of any sort and as a UK citizen the only Queen I recognise is Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, yet the significance of yesterday meant so much more than all of the flag waving and whether it was tears of happiness or sadness or whatever I found myself crying over and over again all through the day.

TAG Fine Arts are showing a selection of my work at the London Art Fair.

Stand 2,Royal Academy of Arts, Front Entrance, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

22 – 26 April 2009
Open daily 10am - 6pm. Friday late evening opening until 8pm

Living Etc have printed an interview I did with them for their February 2009 issue

Italian magazine Velvet commissioned me to produce male and female horocopes for them, starting with Aquarius...

I have been doing a bit of work for Fortnum and Mason this year (I have just finished the illustrations for their lovely Easter Eggs !!!) These 3 illustrations were created for press ads for the Guardian and the Times letting people know about their special xmas events, one was for cocktail making classes, xmas cooking evenings and childrens storytelling evenings - I'm hope you can work out which one is which ! Sometimes the difficult thing with doing illustrations is you have to fit things into shapes you would never normally do - but then sometimes these challenging things can be the best fun and make you stretch your imagination a bit too.
Working for Fortnums has been hard in another way, one of my favourite artists Edward Bawden did lots of work for them throughout his long career and I know that when they approached me it was because they wanted to get back some of the flavour of the playfulness of his designs, as such I have been doing my utmost to try and NOT look at any of EB's work in case I am influenced by him too directly !!! Anyway this is what I done for them !!!