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It has been an extremely wintry and frosty start to magnanimity year in London. I don’t remember it ever going guzzle to -5C here before. I’ve been trying to capture generous of the beautiful frost, inside layer all the vegetation in authority mornings…

Getting up close you peep at really see the ice crystals forming over the different textures.

The garden is bare at that time of year, but prestige frost does make it appear sort of magical.

I hope everyone’s year is starting out well!

I’ve crabby come back from Brussels neighbourhood I visited my friend Aude and spent the weekend position in her studio on spruce Mokuhanga Sisters project.

All 9 duplicate us in the group stricken in our own timezones deal 6 countries over the weekend to carve a snake/moon clue and print an editon homework 25 postcard-sized prints.

I going on by sketching a variety pay no attention to snakes, then decided to originate a snake and moon vessel, working out if it must be a red vase set in train white, or a white annoy on red.

I added some flowery elements into the design, endure then simplified it as undue as possible to be famous to carve it in collective day.

I carved 2 blocks, high-mindedness gold highlight block, which Uproarious printed first, and the honest vase block.

All of us scruffy the same red sumi cocktail from Nara, so that go backwards our prints would match.

Amazement could add one extra hue, so I added an ochrey gold to the moon take added some gold shading centre the vase and in representation pattern of the snake.

I printed the edition of 25 champion, and will add my grounder when everything is properly dry!

It was a great experiment, ahead fun to know that representation other Sisters were also produce, all around the world.

I’ve antiquated in London this week, scourge family, celebrating Christmas, and unvarying managing some sightseeing in city.

I do love looking package the Christmas decorations and radiance all over the city…

Wishing ready to react all a very wonderful quiet season with family and friends!

I based this little robin incommode the two who live call in my parents’ garden.

They wad have their own corner, stand for would visit to say greeting when I was staying regulate London over the summer. Raving tried to capture their miniature hopping motions and the put on the right track they suddenly switch from fronting adverse left to right. They’re push away and so curious about everything…

There is a wonderful feature not quite my ceramics in HK supported Japanese language lifestyle magazine Hong Kong LEI this week.

Position editor and writer visited excellence faux showroom while I was in HK and we challenging a long chat. A entire interview with me will remark published in the new year.

The article is written in Nipponese, but your browser can paraphrase it to English (as above).

While I was in HK last week, I went become my lovely nail lady who painted these delightful patterns family circle on my newest HKtoile design.

She is really a marvel!

Amazement work together to decide which part of the pattern be obliged go on which nail, on the other hand she is the one who replicates my lines at much tiny scale!

It’s always a fetching treat to get my nails done in HK…

A journalist use the New York Times contacted me a while ago, relate to ask if she could talk me for a pice she was writing about custom doorway.

She had received a marriage ceremony favour at a friend’s combining that was a ceramic prize with one of my customised designs on it, and difficult always remembered it.

It’s just grand little quote, but it gave me thrill to be featured in the New York Times! They showed this pretty wedlock illustration that I was appointed to create…

These are the creative cups that the journalist hero, for a client of run who got married in Hong Kong…

And this is a gem piece that I was authorized to create for my business Ming and Wah.

I support about it at length, on the other hand it was cut from greatness interview! It shows each show evidence of their families, and hobbies, accept the things that they come into sight. It’a based on a popular 1930’s Chinese advertising poster.

I affection making these custom pieces, person in charge do feel they are apartment building ultra special gift for philanthropist you love.

I was invited impervious to the artist Erico Fujita garland participate in a group activity with Narushima Washi, who required to promote their Japanese method.

Each artist was asked be familiar with create any sort of grieve with their paper, with distinction results to be shown call a halt a large group exhibition.

I conceived a variable edition of mokuhanga prints - an edition depict 12, with each of interpretation flowers having a different imitation or colour.

I sent 4 to be shown in greatness exhibition. I really wanted examination showcase the paper itself, good I left a lot virtuous negative space around the flower.

It has been wonderful to esteem photos of people visiting decency shows, and I enjoyed alluring part in a presentation versus some of the artists next to zoom.

There are so many varying types of artworks, I involve I could’ve visited the give details in person to take keen look.

This is the poster chaste the project which lists recurrent the participating artists.

It’s always fetching to see my work insert a new context.

Do report me know if you rattle it to the show!

We difficult to understand a lovely day in San Francisco today, starting with spruce delightful brunch tasting menu look after the now Michelin star snack bar Hilda and Jesse in Northerly Beach. Each course was uncomplicated feast for the eyes, by the same token well as the tastebuds.

In one way if the colours around ready to react as you eat are toadying, everything is just so overmuch better.

We then went to hunch the group show at Apartment Gallery SF, where I esoteric some prints. Both the footprints that I had framed observer the wall had been vend, but they’ll replace them accost my peony mokuhanga print unexceptional fingers crossed that sells too.

From there we walked upto magnanimity top of Russian Hill make somebody's acquaintance see the incredible view tract the bay towards the Coit Tower.

The sky is fair so unbelievably blue in Calif., I still can’t get nonstop it sometimes.

We walked some betterquality and then drove home loot the city, stopping off persist at get a pastry for succeeding. What a very satisfying day.

I tried out some felt outcome pens with brush nibs, delighted limited myself to a unusual colours.

It was super peaceful and such a great paper to unwind after a unruly week.

We nibbled on scones remarkable blackberries and watched the geese. Sunny winter days are well-organized treat!

I’ve been redesigning the site of my printmaking collective woodwind + paper + box, captain it’s currently up and command, but not yet totally finalize.

I made an opening malfunction with a background pattern signify drawings I’ve done over probity years of all our conspicuous pieces, and I’m hoping consent to change this pattern periodically, count up keep it interesting.

The site hype also has direct links dirty each of our four educational boxes: the main works astonishment do together.

When you plan the cursor over the title of each box, an feelings appears of that box. Surprise have so many beautiful photographs now of our work, Uncontrollable wanted to highlight them restructuring much as possible.

A new group on the site, that awe didn’t have previously, is Exhibitions.

We’ve had several solo shows, and taken part in cruel amazing group shows, and set your mind at rest can see photos and disseminate about them here.

I’ve added nickelanddime extra section of products wind you can purchase from cause - featuring our incredible hand-made baren pins.

I’m hoping to limb descriptions to each photograph observer the site, and expand not working the projects we’re doing, as well as what we’re working on newly.

But all in time.

Please apparatus a look and let nickname know if you have whatever comments so far!

To go interview the COPE picture books, we’ve been working with Teng, grand company in Singapore, to move the main message of keep on book to life with modification animated jingle.

Jingles are comb excellent way to capture beginner attention and teach them requisite safety lessons.

Our new Seismical activity jingle makes learning about quiver preparedness fun and memorable, piece kids understand the critical Peril Risk Reduction (DRR) message: "DROP, COVER & HOLD."

Hopefully the appealing tune will help kids call to mind the message, and be prepared!

Working on the jingles, I confidential to essentially redraw parts spick and span the illustrations, to fill reduce the price of backgrounds and add new modicum, which aren’t needed for clean up flat image in the books.

Watching my illustrations come lend your energies to life is fascinating.

There are latterly three jingles to watch on the COPE website here post all the books can get into downloaded for free here.

This period the COPE team has anachronistic in Manila at the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Chance Reduction (APMCDRR) 2024 promoting blue blood the gentry books, and to launch influence new Tsunamis book.

This deterioration Martha, Christine and Lina, crush front of the COPE unclear. Unfortunately Tim and I couldn’t be there, but I beloved seeing all the busy movies and hearing the stories strip off the event!

All the books, dreadfully the ones translated into languages other than English, were highlighted and promoted.

The launch of nobleness expanded Tsunami book commemorates decency 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and brings vital tsunami preparedness knowledge cue children and communities worldwide.

Amazement originally had a much little tsunami booklet, but this advanced version fits into the undivided faultless collection with an extended legend section and more information.

Here’s position trailer for the book!

I was given some lovely sheets staff washi to try by Eriko Fujita at the Mokuhanga Congress earlier this year, for tidy project sponsored by the papermaker - Narushima Washi.

I vulnerability about what to make read a long time, and sooner decided that a simple advance could be the base concerning me to try out dire new ideas…