Interview

I have recently been interviewed by The Artfuls - you can read it here.

Picasso in Paris

The Van Gogh Museum have just announced that their exhibition Picasso In Paris 1900 - 1907 was "one of the best visited exhibitions in the museum's history", attracting 471,168 visitors  (full article here)

To see my poster design for the exhibition, click here.

Unfold Poster 19 - tUnE-yArDs

I have just had another A2 poster printed in Unfold (illustrating the tUnE-yArDs gig at Paradiso on 6th June - go go go!) it has been out in Amsterdam's finest cafes, galleries, cinemas, museums and music venues since Wednesday, and you can see it here too:

Open publication - Free publishing - More amsterdam

And here is a video of Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArD's in action:

I am currently GradGallery's featured artist of the week!

Have a peek at the GradGallery website here: http://www.gradgallery.co.uk/

GradGallery is a collective of University College Falmouth illustration graduates, specialising in a broad range of disciplines, with a mutual aim to promote our work in galleries and public spaces across the UK.

Lightmeter Beetle

Dan and I have a steadily growing vintage camera collection, and today I've been using it as a starting point to create mysterious camera-beetle hybrids. This one is the result of a liason between a Leningrad lightmeter and a Lubitel.

Soon after drawing this, a real beetle appeared on my toe, and I made a film about his life which you can watch here: http://vimeo.com/24259311

Post-cinema, rainy streets, having deep discussions in Franks Bar with Dan and Danuta.

WeAdmire

The lovely people at WeAdmire have turned some of my illustrations into t-shirts!

(featured: Elizabeth Taylor, Morrissey, Nikola Tesla and Pathé Tuschinski)

WeAdmire are a t-shirt publishing company based in Shoreditch, London. They use a printing process whereby dyes are embedded in the t-shirts with heat and pressure, meaning that the design won't fade or crack/peel. They print the designs at between 300 - 800dpi, so they are nice and clear too.


They have a website full of unique and very intriguing t-shirts, and you can also find them on Facebook and on Twitter too.


The address of their shop is: 13-15 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3EJ, England

We end up around the mountain that I climb to lose you

I am building a set for a new commission

Here's a little scrap I found from nearly 5 years ago, when I first began to use a mapping pen:

Berney Arms

(click to enlarge)

Me and my friend Danuta recently visited Berney Arms, a mysterious and beautiful land with no roads, accessed only by infrequent trains (by request) or by bike or on foot, and therefore a very quiet, serene place, punctuated by the sounds of lapwings, redshanks and yellow wagtails, the sight of the tallest windmill in Norfolk, , and a lovely "brown" pub serving local ales and yummy Stowford Press cider (the Norfolk Broads looks very similar to the countryside in southern Amsterdam). I've made a map of Berney Arms, inspired by our being trapped there after missing the last train home and having to walk the 5 miles to Great Yarmouth.

I now have a Facebook Page: Emma Ridgway Illustration