My first line of pendants for Black Pearl has officially launched!

Fiona Deffenbaugh, creater of Black Pearl, and I  started talking about creating jewellery based on tattoos almost exactly a year ago and the first collection is finally on sale.The collection consists of eight original designs, each of which I hand engrave individually onto pendants to create miniature, one-off pieces of art. Each design is influenced by my tattooing, from classic tattoo imagery of the swallows and gypsy girls to Indian mehndi patters and Mexican sugar skulls.

Each pendant is completely unique, just as a tattoo!

The collection is available to buy through my webstore NOW, and through the Black Pearl online store.

New, inspirational and forward-thinking, The Directory is a website dedicated to women’s careers in London.

See my feature and interview with them here

www.thedirect-ory.com

Follow them on twitter

www.twitter.com/_TheDirectory_

for updates and information about other features on inspirational career women across London!!

Although I’ve seemed pretty quiet over the past few months, I’ve actually been busy working on two big new projects, a great collaboration, some new artworks, and a new direction in my work. Not to mention lots of new tattoos which will be going up into the galleries soon!

I can’t go into too much detail right now, but stay patient, keep checking on here for more regular updates and sneak peeks!

Having tattooed my best girl, Edwin London’s own Niesh last week with an epic Wu Tang tattoo, Edwin Europe featured us on their blog…

Check out

http://www.edwin-europe.com/london.php

to see what went on!

So in January I took part in Schuh’s SS’12 campaign: ‘Love What You Do’!

http://theschuhblog.com/2012/02/13/springsummer-2012-campaign/

If you can’t get to a store to check out the campaign, check the Schuh blog for regular updates and sneak-peaks of the shoot. Photos and an exclusive video interview with me will be shown in stores across the UK for the rest of the SS’12 season!

Earlier this year I was interviewed for a book on the ever-growing world of Roller Derby, “Flat Track Fashion: The Roller Derby Look Book” by Ellen Parnavelas (author of the popular blog http://secretdiaryofarookierollergirl.wordpress.com.), which is being published by Bloomsbury Publishing, due for release in March 2012.

The book is available for pre-order at amazon now:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flat-Track-Fashion-Roller-Derby/dp/140815501X/ref=s

You can view sample pages via the facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Flat-Track-Fashion-The-Roller-Derby-Look-Book/187343777993062

I’ve recently designed a piece for the legendary bag designer Bill Amberg, and the bag is now available online and in store to buy!

Check it out at www.billamberg.com, or buy one from www.billamberg.com/shop

Hunter S Thompson’s “Hell’s Angels”, re-issued by Penguin as part of their Penguin Essentials, and featuring my artwork on the cover, is now out.

Go to www.penguin.co.uk to read and see more, or buy yourself a copy!!!

So there were quite a few good write-ups for the exhibition at Stolen Space in December…. here’s some links to the best of them.

Eye Magazine:
blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=1816

New York Times:
intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/a-london-show-celebrates-the-book-cover

The Guardian:
www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2010/nov/27/art

Design Week:
www.designweek.co.uk/home/blog/never-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/3021428.article

My print is completely sold out, but you can still take a look at it, and all the others in the exhibition, just visit the website:

http://www.stolenspace.com/section.php?xSec=369&xPage=28