charity
I’m extremely happy to say that my newest mokuhanga print, Pink Anemone, raised US$210 towards women’s rights charities in the US through @stillwerise.
We need to help each other, however we can! Thanks, as always, for your wonderful support, Mariko x
I was super happy to donate a little etching to @artiststakeaction when I was in California, as they are raising money for all sorts of important causes. This week it went online and there was quite a bit of bidding over the print and I really hope the winner will love it! I wonder if they are someone who likes to sew…
I have also donated one of my newer mokuhanga prints to the upcoming auction by Still We Rise, who raise money for alot of women’s causes. It starts on monday, and more information can be found on their website and instagram.
Every little counts, and I hope my artwork can make the world a tiny bit better. M x
I've designed some Christmas cards for my favourite animal charity again this year, Animals Asia.
I worked on lots of different ideas, and three were chosen for the cards. I tried to make them cute, but not too cute...
If you're considering buying some charity cards, please help us help the moonbears! 
You can buy the cards here. Thank you!!
I was recently asked to design some products for the charity Animals Asia. These products are sold here and the profits go towards their work saving animals.
I painted illustrations of wonderful moonbears, as I really love them and can't stand the way they are farmed and treated so cruelly. I tried to show them being curious and adorable, and most of all, hopeful.
I started the project by researching and sketching moonbears, and playing with ideas on how to bring some colour and fun into the images.
I then tried out different styles and media, and picked watercolour to give the illustrations a loose, free feeling.
There's a teatowel, a tote bag and a tshirt, with different illustrations, and all available from the Animals Asia online shop.
Buy them for all your friends! Please help save the bears!
Here's a cute little thing I drew for the Croucher Foundation in HK this year. Yes, that's the star ferry speeding along there, obviously in a hurry to get home for Christmas...
Martha, who wrote the bilingual Max & Mei books I illustrated, donated some books to an orphanage in China for Half the Sky, and we were sent these photos of the kids enjoying them. They're adorable!
I'm so happy to see kids enjoying the books...
Looking forward to working on new projects with Martha soon!
My charity project this year was for Animals Asia, which is devoted to the welfare of wild and urban animals in Asia, and also works towards the conservation of endangered species. Because I love bears, I specifically worked with them on their Moon Bear Rescue campaign, where they save and support bears rescued from bile farms in China.
I've designed four products for the charity, and all the proceeds go towards helping the wonderful moon bears. The collection has just been launched in time for Christmas orders. My personal favourite is the ladies large scarf, featuring four lovely bears in pretty patterns,
and this is my most favourite bear of them all...
Moon bears have that name because of the distinctive crescent of lighter fur on their fronts. I've played with this 'moon' symbolism in my designs, placing the bears in the night sky, like constellations, for both the scarf and the foldable bag. 
I did a simple solitary bear on a moon for the ladies t-shirt, 
and a sequential drawing of a bear being let out of a cage to freedom, for the folding umbrella.
You can order everything from the Animals Asia website shop, and they'll ship worldwide. Help us save the moon bears ! 
