I have some mokuhanga prints in the group show Ubergang that opens this friday. If you’re in Basel, Switzerland, please do pop by the Basler Papiermuhle!
Mokuhanga 2021 Summer Colour Exhibition
I’m excited to announce that I’ve been chosen to participate in the 2021 Summer Colour Mokuhanga exhibition organised by CfSHE Gallery at 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo, Japan.
Hope you can make it to the show in July! You can find out more about the show and the fair here.
The Print Center event
Along with my Wood + Paper + Box collaborators Yoonmi Nam and Katie Baldwin, I will be taking part in an online conversation with The Print Center in Philadelphia next week.
The event will be on zoom, and you can apply for free tickets here. Thursday 13 May 6pm EST / Friday 14 May 7 am Japan time.
We’ll be chatting about how we met, when we started wood + paper + box, and how our collaboration influences our own individual work. Hope to see you there!
RTHK radio interview
I did a live interview with the amazing Noreen Mir on Hong Kong’s 123 Show on RTHK3 this afternoon. You can listen to the recording here.
We discussed picture books, the HK Young Reader’s Festival, illustration, and mostly the COPE picture book series.
Write_On 2021
I’m proud to be involved in the Write_On Kindness Card Challenge event, organised by Hello!Lucky cards and egg press. I’ll be doing a mini presentation about hand-lettering and illustrating fun envelopes.
It will start at 2am on Sunday 18 April in Japan. Hope to see you there! Apply for your free ticket to the event here.
2021 Hong Kong International Literary Festival
I’m super happy to announce that I will be taking part in the Hong Kong International Young Readers Festival (as part of the Literary Festival) with author Martha Keswick this month, to do a series of presentations and workshops about our COPE book series.
The Festival runs from 19th - 30th April.
For more information, please go to the HKILF website here.
online art pop-up show!
Next week my Tokyo art group Art Byte Critique is hosting a Spring art pop-up over the weekend. It’s going to be a great place to find new artists and maybe pick up a piece of art!
I’m going to add a few new pieces to my shop, exclusively for the duration of this show…hope to see you there!
COPE Landslides book launch
The newest COPE picture book is complete and will be available to read on the COPE website very soon! Here’s the new trailer for the book…
Illustrators 63 virtual ceremony new date
print exhibition in San Francisco
An exhibition of prints by the Graphic Arts Studio opened this week at the STUDIO Gallery SF in San Francisco. I’m showing a selection of mokuhanga prints.
The prints are all available to view (and buy) online here.
There is an amazing range of art and artists participating…
If it’s safe for you to do so, please do pop in and let em know how it looks!
Illustrators 63 Virtual Awards Ceremony
On February 25th 2021, the Society of Illustrators in New York will hold a virtual awards ceremony for the winners of each category in the annual Illustrators 63 competition. I will be make a small speech as I accept my silver medal! All you need to do to attend is register. Hope to see you there!
You can find out more info here.
Giveaway time!
There are 2 giveaways running right now that feature my work. The first is the chance to win a complete printed set of my COPE picture books! Visit the COPE instagram page for all the info.
Feather and Bone, a hipster buther/grocer/deli in HK, has started stocking my ceramics, and they are running an exciting giveaway on their instagram page - you could win a selection of goodies, including my lovely Chinese cups! Give it a go - visit their instagram for all the info.
Good luck! And if you aren’t the lucky winner, you can still download all the COPE books for free from the COPE website, and buy your own choice of my ceramics here or from Feather and Bone in HK.
Society of Illustrators
I am so proud and honoured to have won a Silver medal in this year’s Society of Illustrator’s Annual Exhibition!
Since 1959, the Society of Illustrators has hosted the Illustrators Annual, the premier showcase for illustrators, featuring the most outstanding works created throughout the year. Open to artists worldwide, thousands of entries are considered by a jury of professionals, resulting in a published book and an exhibition that is open to the public on display at the Museum of Illustration in New York City.
An Opening Award Galas for each part of the Annual Exhibition, medals and certificates are presented to the illustrators and art directors whose works are judged best in each category. Two awards are granted per category, (gold and silver) and this year I have been awarded Silver in the category of surface/product design for my HK Willow ceramics. I am SO EXCITED! I am now officially an award-winning illustrator.
For the competition, I entered the special version of the Willow Pattern Collection that was made in green and gold exclusively for Lane Crawford department store in HK, as a limited edition to celebrate Chinese New Year 2020. I hope that everyone who bought a piece will enjoy it even more now it’s an award-winning design!
Thank you to Louis Papachristou at faux who is the most awesome production partner ever, Lane Crawford , who have supported me throughout my illustration career in HK, and the judges at the SOI in New York.
Artists Sunday
I’m taking part in the first Artists Sunday! It’s like Black Friday, except for art. I’ll add special pieces into my shop for that day only. My usual prints will also be available. International postage is going quite smoothly from Japan, so all are welcome!
The first annual Artists Sunday takes place this Sunday, Nov 29th, after Thanksgiving. Support your favorite local artists and give personal and handcrafted gifts this holiday season.
COPE on the radio!
Dr Tim Sim, COPE’s editor, was interviewed on RTHK today, alongside Johnson Lo from the HK Jockey Club Disaster Preparedness and Response Institute and Dr TC Lee from the Hong Kong Observatory. They discussed the COPE book series and how they help children to be prepared for natural disasters and hazards. So proud to be a part of this project! You can listen to the interview (in Chinese) here.
Upcoming (virtual) exhibitions
I have work in two upcoming online exhibition/events: The CWAJ Print Show in Japan, and the Vancouver Art Book Fair in Canada.
The CWAJ Print Show is a highly respected annual exhibition that has been held since 1956. It raises money through print sales for various scholarships. I’ve visited the show each year I’ve been in Japan, and was excited to finally apply to be a part of it. Unfortunately due to the ongoing COVID situation in Japan, they are having the 2020 show virtually, but I hope it will still be great!
You can visit the show here. It will be live from Monday October 12 at 3pm until Saturday October 31.
The Vancouver Art Book Fair is happening on the weekend of the 16/17/18 October. I’m participating as part of the wonderful Art Byte Critique Tokyo art group. There’s a link to the ABC site from the main VABF site and then you can link through to each of the participating members’ own site to purchase our work.
COPE links
The COPE picture book series is now being promoted by the Hong Kong Observatory, on their ‘My Little Observatory’ page, which features weather items for kids. It’s cute!
SCMP article
We’re in the SCMP in HK!
Japanese Paper Company
My work has been featured in the online gallery of the new Japanese Paper Company based in Sweden. You can see it in full here. It shows a selection of my mokuhanga works, including this fan I made for the original wood+paper+box project.
The online paper shop is an excellent place to get good quality Japanese paper in Europe!
St Lawrence University
I’m happy to announce that two of my mokuhanga works have been acquired by the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery of St Lawrence University in the US for their permanent collection. Both are pieces from my Gardens series: the first is this accordion folded print entitled Into the Garden (blue).
The second print is my most recent, Night Garden, in pink and green. This was initially a back sumi ink print, but I did some experiments with colour, so this is a unique print.
