NEW HATS

Some new hat card designs, screen printed this week. These will be on sale shortly at LUNA & CURIOUS, Calvert Avenue, E2

NBN 4

The wonderful Nothing But Navy has once again opened its doors, this time as part of The London Design Festival and Fitzrovia Now, an exciting series of events in London over the next 10 days celebrating British design.  NBN appears at the Material Lab on Great Titchfield Street from 17th Sept - 21st Sept, and as usual features a wonderful selection of products, textiles, prints all in navy blue hues.  I have printed some special Navy blue 'Owl' tea towels for this one.

Luna & Curious

I am very happy that my 'Hat' Greetings cards are now on sale at the wonderful East London shop LUNA & CURIOUS in Shoreditch. The screen printed cards come in three designs; Rose Hat, Owl Hat, House Hat, and are printed on Heritage card.

Visit LUNA & CURIOUS 

24-26 Calvert Avenue, 

London E2 7JP

www.lunaandcurious.com 

It is FULL of wonderful products, textiles, ceramics, furniture, all sorts.

Workings

My sketchbook travels most places with me. It is quite a messy, unstructured thing. Several pages have fallen out of my current one in fact.

Whilst my solutions are usually realised in collage,  I always work out initial thoughts in drawing and mark making. 

Here are some recent pages; various ideas for projects and general thoughts

 

Diana

Grey Magazine Issue 6

Today I'm doing some more work for New York based magazine Grey - I realised I hadn't posted the work I did for their last issue, so here it is.

Grey is a magazine which combines Fashion, art and literature- it is divided quite obviously into a first section focused on fashion stories, photographically based, and then a moves into a literature section which is largely illustrated. This will be the third issue I have worked on- each new brief I find always gives something unique to explore.

For Issue 6 I was asked to illustrate two essays, entirely different in their subject matter- The first (top image), Lost and Found, by Erin Sheehy, is a wonderful piece exploring the power of sound.  In it she considers her own love of old Soul and R&B, and likens the act of listening to music to conjuring ghosts.

The second article The President on the Rocks by Aaron Ayscough, investigates certain US presidents' historical drinking habits. I particularly liked the visual of Thomas Jefferson and his love of Bordeaux.

More information on Grey and it's stockists here

Badger Fun

Photo courtesy 18 Hewett Street

Thursday's Love Thy Badger exhibition was a great success, and a great cause, infact 18 Hewett St have extended the show so it's staying up this week, have a look

Badgers

 

Here is a Badger-themed screen print I finished last week, for an exhibition opening on 21st June.  LOVE THY BADGER features work by all sorts of great folk: Matthew The Horse and Neil Fox to name just a few.  All donated to raise money for the Wildlife Trust against the recent Government Bill for a mass badger cull.

Private View Thursday 21st June, Exhibition opens 22nd-24th June at Protein / 18 Hewett Street www.18hewettstreet.co.uk

Roughs

Some roughs from a recent Financial Times commission

Updates

Some website updates: www.rosieroberts.com

Navy

                                     
The Nothing But Navy Pop Up shop has opened it's doors again,this time at Luna and Curious on Calvert Avenue, E2.

I have created some things especially for the shop: A set of screen printed 'Hat' greetings cards- 4 designs each with a different hat on (my obsession with hats and headresses continues); and a new 3 colour screen print I have been working on, 'Floris' (see below). The print is a reworking of the 'Flora' pattern I designed a few weeks ago,  adapted into navy blue tones. It is an edition of 6.

I also screen printed organic cotton tote bags; each with a navy Owl design. 

The shop opened today, until Wednesday 4th April, and is well worth a peruse, it is packed to the rafters with wonderful navy items.

www.nothingbutnavyshop.com

The Ride Journal 6

Here is another illustration contribution I made recently for the beautiful 6th issue of The Ride Journal. The piece accompanies 'Brightness To My Wheels', a poem about the thrill of cycling through a city by Helen Griffiths.

If you haven't seen The Ride Journal I thoroughly recommend a look, this issue particularly has some wonderful stories and images including a photographic piece by Frank Schott, and extracts from the fantastic photo series 'Totems', by Alain Delorme. Below are my favourite pages:

theridejournal.com

Financial Times 10/3/12

I illustrated an article for this weekend's Financial Times, Life and Arts section.  The piece was commissioned to accompany a diary piece by Gideon Rachman; an account of his time spent in China recently and, among other things his experiences of the technological restrictions and censorship there.

The piece can be viewed online here 

Spellbound (1945)