Giftware review and PULSE

I'm getting ready for PULSE in May with new things to show! I'm featured in the Mar/April addition of Giftware review magazine and can't wait for this show and tell.

I'll be in the Launchpad section of the show, at stand LP66a. Come and say hello do!!

Bring it on!

http://www.pulse-london.com/

On these magic shores

 

I'm excited to be a part of this exhibition in Oxford, in association with Comma.  Loads of brilliant illustrators involved, go and see it if you can, it'll be a treat! 

http://www.o3gallery.co.uk/o3_gallery_future_exhibitions.html

I'll have my 'Three Pigs' limited edition screen print there. Limited edition of 5, and printed onto brown board.

Screen printing workshop 13th April

Mail Me Art 2013

Here's my contribution towards this years Mail me art project. It's an international mail art project created by Darren Di Lieto of The Little Chimp Society. You can read more about it here - http://www.mailmeart.com/

 It was nice to get my caran d'ache crayons out again. I used to use these all the time at Uni. I love the fat side of the zig pen too, lush!

Sunshine is good

Valentines coming up for any lovebirds out there and for all those other people reaching for a sick bucket, why not reach for a computer instead and treat yourself?

You can pick any of these up in my shop http://www.sarahrayshop.co.uk

 Also hello to new stockists! ;

https://sarahray.notonthehighstreet.com
Treacle http://www.treacleworld.com/

Postmark http://postmarkonline.co.uk/

The Oak Room http://oakroomshop.co.uk/

Belly button designs http://www.bellybuttondesigns.com/

Inspitalfields http://www.oldspitalfieldsmarket.com

Petticoat lane http://www.petticoatlaneshop.co.uk/

Search&Rescue http://www.searchandrescueshop.co.uk/

The Picture factory http://www.picture-factory.co.uk/

Wild Hart http://www.wildhart.co.uk/

Cheese and pineapple

Sunday drawing time.

Here's an idea for a new greeting's card for all you 70's and 80's party people! 

Top Drawers and Awards

I recently got back from Top Drawer in London where I had a stand in the Spotted Plus section of the show.  It was really nice to see my fellow Spotted exhibitors, who, by the way have all got some amazing work (I'll put links in at the end of this post). On the Sunday they had an awards ceremony, which we were unaware of,  and so went home to rest our weary feet! Well, it turned out I received the award for best new product in the stationary&greetings catagory!! Well I never! Say what?! 

So pretty chuffed, I have it on my mantlepiece, oh yeah! It was a successful show and I'll be putting my new stockists on here very soon. 

Do check out these peeps; 

Tamasyn Gambell http://tamasyngambell.com/
Ros Shiers http://ros-shiers.com/home.html
Karen Akesson http://karinakesson.com/
Fracas cards http://fracasstudios.com/
Ali Miller http://www.alimiller.co.uk/

New card designs

Well, we are a bit into 2013 now and I hope you all had a good Christmas and new year!
2013 starts with a bang - I'm showing my products at Top Drawer in London on the 13th, 14th and 15th January..so no time to dawdle into the new year! I have 4 new card designs to add to my range which are now in my shop www.sarahrayshop.co.uk 

New things

And the winner is...

Thankyou to all you lovely people that entered my giveaway! I enjoyed sitting at my desk, on my own, doing a little drumroll, before pulling a name out of my hat...and that name was Amanda, aka @OwlPrintPanda who has this lovely blog http://www.owlprintpanda.blogspot.co.uk/

Giveaway!

To celebrate the opening of my new online shop, (Have to add online, someone thought i had an actual shop! Alas, no) I'm having a giveaway!! Hurrah and goodygumdrops. 
I'll be picking a name out of my wooly hat on the 10th December and the winner will have a chance to win stuff from my shop. All you have to do is go on twitter and retweet one of my tweets about the giveaway. I'm @singingchicken. Or you can go on facebook www.facebook.com/singingchicken and share my post about the giveaway.

Also here is one of the new additions to my Nice face range are in my shop as of today!

www.sarahrayshop.co.uk

100 Houses online shop!

Hello everyone!

Well, the 100 Houses exhibition in Bristol was a massive success! (so much so that I felt a little wonky the next day after the opening) Everyone's pieces looked great. But the most important thing is that there is still money to raise for Shelter, so Paul Roberts (monstersmonsters) has been busy putting everyones work up for sale. Nice one Paul! 

http://100houses.bigcartel.com/products

Here are some of my favourites!

Ben Javens 

Daniel Van der Noon

Simon Peplow

And here's mine..

Nice Face Screen Print

Fresh off the screen printing bed is my latest print, a 3 colour screen print of Nice Faces (yes, more faces, I like faces).  
Today my hair is like the bottom right face but it's not blue unfortunately.

You can find it here; http://sarahray.bigcartel.com/product/nice-face-screenprint

Open day at the Birmingham Printmakers

Jeego and banana's

I've been teaming up with JEEGO lately, who are the next new thing in the greetings card industry. They have an app that means you can send animated cards wherever, whenever! So far they have made my MASH IT UP illustration into a cool little animation- check it out! just follow this link;
http://telly.com/IOUFE

So happy Friday everyone and don't forget to mash it up. Ahh yeah.

100 Houses

This exciting exhibition is opening soon so I thought I'd post a few details about it and show you my piece which will be amongst the other 99 artworks!


100 Houses’ brings together 100 national and international image-makers from illustrators to street artists in support of housing and homelessness charity Shelter. 

Given the theme of “house” each artist has produced a unique piece of artwork specifically for this exhibition, to launch at the vibrant, South Bristol Cafe/Bar, Tobacco Factory in November. Sales from the 100 original pieces of artwork hope to generate a significant contribution to the ongoing work of the charity Shelter in its work to help people find and keep a decent home.
Curator, Paul Roberts, reveals, “After hosting a group show last year, supporting ‘The Woodland Trust’, I wanted to go bigger and see what would happen if I attempted to pull together 100 artists to make a difference with their art. I’ve been blown away by the artwork being sent to me from near and far - each piece is the same 10-inch square size, in order fit all the artwork into the Tobacco Factory. It’s so inspiring that such a wide body of recognized and up-and-coming talent have really pulled out all the stops for this show.”

100 Houses will be opening on November 16th and will be up until the 30th after which work will be put into an online shop for one month only. The Tobacco Factory is open Mon - Thurs 12pm - 11pm, Fri - Sat 12pm - 12am and Sun 10am - 11pm

Taken from website http://100housesart.com/about 

Blow your house down. Screen print 1/5.

http://100housesart.com/post/34166234081/sarah-ray-blow-your-house-down

NAKED SNAIL

I feel I need to explain the title of this latest edition to my zines/books/comics (whatever you like to call them!)

I was talking to my sister-in-law who is German, about various things and for some reason we were talking about slugs. I always like to know the German translation of English words because they're quite often so literal and funny. So, in German the word SLUG translates as NAKED SNAIL.

Brilliant.

So that was the start of this little book about animals, humans and life in general. Here are some pictures.
You can have your own NAKED SNAIL (I know you've always wanted one) just go to my shop here; NAKED SNAIL

OH HELLO collective and EYE CANDY festival

OH, HELLO! Well, yes I am saying hello to you of course but also this is the name of our new collective set up by Jane Anderson aka Currentstate (www.currentstate.co.uk) and myself. We are very exciting to be starting this new venture! Our first event is this weekend where we will be running a live drawing event amongst other things at the Eye Candy festival http://www.facebook.com/EyeCandyFestival

 
We are joining forces with FAKE magazine for the Eye Candy pop up shop, so original prints and artwork for sale by illustrators, Jane Anderson, Sarah Ray, Skinny Nib and FAKE magazine.

Come and join in!;Get your pencils at the ready and come and get involved in drawing your favourite (or not so favourite) celeb in out 'Wonky Wall of Fame'. No drawing skills required - it's all good fun!

We will also be running a drop-in portfolio session for students Sunday 14th 11-4pm. Come along for tea and cakes.

Venue: GALLAN HOUSE
32-34 Hill Street,
Birmingham
B5 4AN

Date: Friday 12th- Sunday 14th October 2012
Time: 11-5pm daily
Eye Candy launch: event 6-9pm: Friday 12th


For more details logo onto:

http://eyecandyfest.tumblr.com/
http://ohhellocollective.tumblr.com/

Hope to see you there!!