New on-line shop - Society 6

My Society6 Shop is now open for business! 

You can find a selection of colourful prints for the kitchen, bedroom, lounge and office, tote bags, cards, cushions, wall clocks and iPhone cases at http://society6.com/natalieryan

Society6 products can be shipped worldwide too, and they regularly offer free shipping periods.

Butterfly Patch Set of 3 Cards

Butterfly Patch Phone Cases

Butterfly Patch Art Print

Butterfly Patch Framed Art Print

The Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap

Here is my watercolour and hand stitched post card which should now be winging it over to USA as part of the Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap!

Vintage Butterflies

I love the 50's pastelle colours on this vintage Nestle 'Butterfly Caddy' chocolate tin. Perfect for summer colour inspiration!

Lanna Lush

My finished pencil case design for the last assignment of 'Make Art that Sells' e-course. The brief was for a 'hyper-lush' design using your collections as a starting point. I'm not a huge collector of things in general (apart from Art & Design books and novelty erasers in my primary school years.....) but I do love a good fabric stash! This embroidered textile came from the Hmong Market in Chiang Mai.

Butterfly Flutter

A smattering of butterflies painted in my favourite Winsor and Newton watercolours, placed in a toss repeat in Photoshop.

On my desk...

...is a pile of painted butterflies waiting to be scanned in. Have a lovely weekend!

Flowers on a friday

And a butterfly for good measure. Happy Friday!

Secret Garden

And one for the girls! My latest bed linen design for Cottonbox Kids is 'Secret Garden'.

Take a step inside the filigree gates into an enchanted garden filled with beauty.

 Proud peacocks show off their stunning plumage beneath a mystical tree bursting with ripe figs and beautiful blossoms. Delicate butterflies flit and flutter around the water colour branches. Girls of all ages will fall in love with this detailed hand painted design in a palette of restful and harmonious spring tones.

The 'Secret Garden' bed linen collection is now available online at www.cottonbox.com.au

Winter leaves

A collection of wintery leaves, painted in water colour

Blossoms and Kimonos from Designers Guild

kimono blossom printed fabric - heather

kimono blossom printed fabric - heather

Once again the latest collection of printed fabrics from Designers Guild has managed to well and truly tempt my pattern tastebuds. I love the fresh, painterly designs that take inspiration from traditional Japanese kimonos and spring blossoms. A pair of floaty curtains in the delicate Kimono Blossom heather colourway would go quite nicely in my bedroom.....

kimono blossom - heather

kimono blossom - delft

kimono blossom - delft

hayashi - indigo

madame butterfly 

digitally printed on a linen ground

amala - heather

Take a look at the many wonderful new fabric and wallpaper collections (including some fabulous Christian Lacroix designs) for Spring Summer here:

Designers Guild

An amicable design for ceramics

I love the hand-drawn qualities and colouration of this dinnerware design by ceramicist Molly Hatch for Anthropologie. And I love the name of the design too - Amicable Aster. Very sweet!

A butterfly a day

I love to play around with mono-printing every now and then. I finished this butterfly design last night sitting right next to the heater. Brrrr.

The Amazing Amazon

'Amazing Amazon' is a new bed linen design for kids for the 'Hiccups' brand. I created this textile design using a monoprint outline technique, coloured in with gouache. I thoroughly enjoyed researching about the wonderful inhabitants who reside in the Amazon rain forest, and I hope many young explorers and adventurers will too!

The butterfly collector

I'm putting my portfolio together at the moment and have realised that I must be just a little bit obsessed about butterflies.....

And this is just a small selection!

Busy as a butterfly?

It's been flat out here at Hiccups, I'm looking forward to having a little more time to spend in blog-land soon!