2012 - Rob Ryan

Olympia 125th Anniversary

Posted by on Tuesday 13th March, 2012

Olympia is one of the great buildings in London which is used for all sorts of shows and exhibitions. This year is its 125th birthday and they are celebrating by commissioning artists to create artworks to mark the occasion, and here is mine!!!

Maybe i’m already happy just as i am

Posted by on Monday 5th March, 2012

At the moment I’m working on some ceramics for a new show in Charleston, the home of the Bloomsbury group. Its a fantastic place to visit, I’ve loved it for a long time and was honored to be asked to exhibit there. Here is a sneek of one of the pieces I’ve been working on!!!

spitalfields life by the gentle author

Posted by on Thursday 1st March, 2012

A big congratulations to The Gentle Author of the Spitalfields Life blog who has had his blog posts published into this beautiful book!! I was very touched to be asked to do the front cover especially something quite unusual as these Staffordshire dogs. I’ve also done the little illustrations at the beginning of each chapter and there’s […]

Tatty Devine

Posted by on Thursday 23rd February, 2012

I’ve just seen this blog post on my good friends at Tatty Devine. They are being completely ripped off by Claire’s Accessories. It is so shameful that big companies feel they can make almost exact replicas of original designs and mass produce them and get away with it! They have not only copied the Dinosaur necklace but […]

top five books

Posted by on Tuesday 21st February, 2012

Every week the brilliantly prolific ‘Its Nice That’ ask people to share their top five books. You can read mine here.

Faberge giant egg hunt

Posted by on Monday 20th February, 2012

Starting from tomorrow, Faberge are conducting a giant egg hunt in London for 40 days and 40 nights. There will be 200 eggs to find, all individually decorated by artists and designers and both me and my fantastic assistant (also fantastic artist) Hazel have both done our own eggs!!! Mine is hand painted and reads: ‘We promise […]

kylie!!

Posted by on Tuesday 14th February, 2012

I was asked by Stylist magazine to participate with the likes of Naomi Campbell(!!!) Dame Edna(!!) and the BRILLIANT Caitlin Moran in a feature called ‘When Stylist Met Kylie’ We all had to ask her a question which was pretty exciting as you can imagine!! Here’s mine: ME: ‘You stole the show at the Sydney […]