This week I went to the Boroichi fleamarket in Tokyo. It has been held twice a year in the same place for over 430 years, and is an intangible folk cultural asset of Japan. 
I wandered, browsed and sketched, 
and bought a beautiful little sobachoko. When I got home, I did some watercolour sketches of it...
I enjoyed it so much, I did a few more, looking at old sobachoko online for reference.
And then made a little design of my own...
shopping
HOBBS High Street Kensington part 2
The new HOBBS store in High Street Kensington, London is open! And lots of my specially commissioned illustrations are framed and decorating the walls...
I was asked to create illustrations for the stores, in a variety of styles, that reflected their values of quality and British heritage.
I also made a special map of the surrounding area showing the wonderful buildings and streets you can explore near the new store.
I highlighted some of the HOBBS iconic fashion items...
... and added in elements like local British flowers and animals.
Foxgloves and sweetpeas, foxes and a stag...
... and of course a countryside feature, the pheasant!
I also did some hand-lettered quotes, some etchings, and included some pages from my sketchbooks.
I hope you'll be able to visit and let me know what you think. Happy shopping!
Thanks to Nick Jesse for the store photos.
kapok shop window displays
I recently designed an autumn window display theme for kapok in Hong Kong. I created watercolour illustrations in shades of reds and browns for their 'into the wild' theme, featuring foliage, berries, and cute woodland animals.
I created various layouts of the illustrations for the six different store locations.
Kapok has two stand alone stores in Wanchai, one large one in PMQ in Central,
and several concession stores within department stores,
so they all needed slightly different treatments. I love the cube stands and little details inside the stores too...
Here's to a happy Autumn!
HK toile ceramics in tree
I went to tree interiors shop in HK this week, and loved their fantastic new display of my HK toile products.
Apparently the noodle bowl two-piece set is a best-seller, hurrah! Here is a sign they have showing all the different products.
I especially liked this way of showing the Chinese teacups...
Hope you can fit even just a little piece into your kitchens!
HK toile ceramics
Here are some lovely photos of my HK toile ceramics, showing the Chinese tea time set, with rice and soup bowls, dipping plates, chopstick holders and spoons! 
The ceramics are available in contemporary red or traditional blue, and feature little details like egg tarts and dim sum in the middle.
You can buy them directly from faux and tree in HK, along with a few other retail outlets. Sik fan!
Huntington Library
The Huntington Library, near LA, is a beautiful botanical gardens and art gallery/museum. I recently designed an exclusive toile pattern for them, to use on a variety of products to sell in their new museum store, which has just opened. This lovely paper parasol, with wooden handle, is available now!
When I was commissioned for this project, I visited the gardens, took photographs and did sketches...
and then designed this repeat toile featuring many of the elements I saw there. I especially loved the Japanese bridge, the rose gardens and the cactus gardens.
The parasol has been featured in Romantic Homes magazine.
It's available to buy in the museum store or online here. Look out for more products with this pattern, coming soon!
Waitrose Christmas
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For this year's Waitrose Christmas magazine in the UK, I drew images that would be used as backdrops for the hampers special photoshoot.
I created the illustrations, but as I couldn't be on location, a specialist did the physical chalk drawings onto boards on my behalf. I think they turned out pretty well! 
Pick up a copy in any Waitrose to see them all!
Washington Flyer
I did some nice grainy line illustrations for the magazine Washington Flyer this month. It's their holiday gift special...
You can see the full issue here.
It was fun to design the wallpaper pattern, and also fun to start thinking about Christmas. I love the holiday season!
PMQ Hong Kong
Bastille Day
Here's a fun French style piece for Atlanta magazine, to celebrate Bastille Day. I tried to think of all the wonderful French things I could, to decorate the page. 
Joyeux Quatorze Juillet!
Tiffany mug on lifestyle blog
My NY Tiffany mugs have been included on the Top 5 High Fashion Designer Coffee Mugs list on luxury lifestyle blog Affluence Avenue. Thanks guys!
Hong Kong teaset
I'm in Hong Kong at the moment, and have just popped in to Tree, a large friendly eco-homeware store, that has started selling my HK Toile teasets.
I chatted with the sales assistants and they told me they're selling extremely well, hurrah!
Hope you can pop in to see them. The HK toile products are also on sale through kapok, HKTDC, HK Museum of Art shop, inside, and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel shop.