Featured on Kickan and Conkers

Kickan and Conkers is a great blog full of inspirational finds, beautiful objects, colour palettes, retro toys, illustration and so much more, go have a look.

They have done a lovely feature of TOY SHOP, called 'fresh talent' , also thank you for the kind comments, to have a nosey click here

here are a couple of my favourite finds from the blog...

Beautiful pastel arrows from Verlaivans

Amazing magical photographs from Madam Tatoum's Clouds

Article Magazine

Article Magazine has featured TOY SHOP exhibition, on their website, to have a read click here

Make sure you pick up their next issue.. 'the drift issue' out soon. The magazine is full of contemporary illustration, music, art reviews and lots more.

IMAGES taken from article magazine.co.uk

More..

For more click here

Toy Shop Photos

photo by Lord Whitney

Here are a few of the Toy Shop Exhibition, to look at more photos look at my flicker here

Sneek Peek

Heres a sneeky peek behind the closed toy shop doors..

Evgenia Barinova has been painting, its all now finished and looks amazing, heres a sneek look at her in progress..

And a tiny sneeky peep at look into Elroy the elephants eye's by the great Lord Whitney..

Opening tomorrow at 6PM!

Rob Jones

Meet Rob Jones, and his great work, he will be exhibiting a print especially for the toyshop...

Rob Jones is an illustrator from Kent/ London and is one part of the Wolfwind Collective.

Rob is inspired by the psyche, stories, magick, people and is at his happiest when painting.

To see more of his work click here

Sarah Abbott

Sarah has created two lovely prints especially for the toy shop. Heres a bit more about here and some of her work...

Sarah is an artist/illustrator from the north of england. She graduated from manchester metropolitan university in 2009 with a BA (hons) degree in fine art. She tries to make work that's simple, quiet and subtle. She is inspired by connections and moments where everything seems to make sense, versus those times when you don't feel so connected.

You can see more of her work here

Mike Redmond

Mike Redmond is currently studying at the Royal College Of Art, for the Toy Shop, he has created two rubix cubes, with faces on, they are exceedingly good. Heres a bit more of his work below..

Mike is inspired by and collects glow in the dark objects, deep sea references and dinosaurs.

To see more of his work click here

Lord Whitney

Welcome to the curious, make believe world of Lord Whitney...

Lord Whitney are a Leeds based creative duo, specialising in photography, illustration, set design, and art direction. With a playful approach to their work and just the right amount of eccentricity the duchesses of all things make believe create life sized illustrations from everyday objects and a little imagination.

They will be creating and exhibiting an oversized toy elephant alongside some photographs, to see more of their work click here

Daniel Frost

Daniel Frost is a fantastic illustrator, that has just graduated from the Royal College Of Art, he will be showing a series of mobiles, at the toy shop, here is some of his work below.

His work is inspired by stories long or short. Drawing reference from toy figures, miniature paintings and adventure novels he creates his own worlds and characters that caper on the pageand act out narratives. He is inspired by fiction and memories.

To see more of his work click here

Owen Gildersleeve

Owen Gildersleeve will be exhibiting at the toy shop with his playful unique style. Here's a bit more about him...

Owen Gildersleeve is a designer and illustrator based in London. He graduated from The University of Brighton in 2008, and has since worked for a range of international clients including The Tate, The Guardian and Scientific American. His work explores a range of 2D and 3D styles, and he finds great enjoyment in experimenting with new materials and techniques.

To see more of his work click here

Toy Shop Promo

Here are some promotional screenprinted onto balsa wood toyshops! They are being sent off this week, If you want one let me know. Thankyou to the amazing John Butcher for screenprinting.

Jack Hudson

Jack Hudson will be showing his amazing print, behind the scenes, also for sale at Toy Shop,along with some 3d work.

Jack Hudson is a freelance illustrator and designer currently living and working in the city of Bristol. When he is not sat at his desk drawing and scanning pencil and gouache drawings, he is either drinking coffee, eating falafel, playing/watching gigs or cycling around town looking for nice trinkets to hoard.

He gains his inspiration from 1960’s sci-fi posters, Studio Ghibli films and Attenborough nature programmes. Jack is also keen to illustrate and create his own stories that include some weird and unusual characters which often contain

an element of humour in some way, shape or form

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He gains his inspiration from 1960’s sci-fi posters, Studio Ghibli films and Attenborough nature programmes. Jack is also keen to illustrate and create his own stories that include some weird and unusual characters which often contain an element of humour in some way, shape or form.