This Saturday, 29th June 2013, we will be celebrating Ryantown’s 5th Birthday and we invite you to join us for the fun and festivities!! There will be tea, cake and a brand new lasercut edition to exclusively mark the occasion! Ryantown came about when Rob received a call from a friend asking if he would […]
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The ‘Make Some Noise…’ zine is made in the same way as the seed booklet I described below. The main difference in this process is Rob’s drawing is screen printed in two parts, for each of the different colours. One part is printed then left to dry before layering the second colour on top. This […]
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Rob is showing a small selection of his papercuts until the 7th of July at Dalslands Konstmuseum in Sweden. It is a mixed paper show and includes other artists such as Magie Hollingworth, Cecilia Levy and Agneta Flock. The museum building itself is built entirely from ecological materials and sits in beautiful surroundings overlooking lake […]
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Last year we produced our first limited edition of Staffordshire Cats, and since then we have slowly been working on a new edition here at Ryantown HQ. I can now show you some exclusive photographs of the cats in progress and give an insight into how we make them. We buy the cats as a […]
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Rob recently finished a new edition of plates. The words read ‘Even though I know we dreamed the same dreams I still wish that we’d known each other as children’ Making the plates is a lengthy but rewarding process involving many colour sampling and firings in our studio kiln. You can see from the photo […]
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For the Chelsea Flower Show Rob created special seed booklets to give out to all the visitors to our re-treat. The seeds are a mixture of a variety of wildflower, including foxglove, evening primrose, cornflower, common knapweed and ox-eye daisy, to name a few. To make the booklet the whole image is exposed on to […]
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Last month, the RHS Chelsea Flower show celebrated its centenary year and for the second year running the Artisan Retreats invited well-known artists and designers to decorate the summer houses, showcasing their work and transforming the space to reflect their own unique style. With last years artists including Orla Kiely, Kaffe Fassett and Nikki Tibbles […]
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