Once Upon a time...

“Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.”  Hans Christian Anderson

Illustration by Holly Betton

The beauty of fairytales, stories of sadness, joy, magic, happy ever afters and if onlys... all spark the imagination of the child with in us.   Hans Christian Anderson captured this wonderful magic in his tales, such as the Little Match Stick Girl, The Brave Tin Soldier, The Red Shoes and The Little Mermaid, all enchanting.

“Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.” Little Match Stick Girl

 “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.” 

Illustration by ''Rose Petal Deer'

Once Upon a Time...' our new MoonKo exhibition, will be based at Urban Outfitters, Kensington in London, opening on the 11th April 2012.  The showcase will explore this idea of the modern day fairytale and 'Once Upon a Time...' with some amazing talent including; Rose Petal Deer, Zoey Hardwick, Holly Betton, Asa Wikman and Deborah Moon.  

The work will consider the relationship between mark-making and collage to create a very 21st century tale.  Take a wonder lovely London town folk and peek upon 'Once Upon a Time..'

Time to make a lovely cuppa and start reading the short story by Hans himself  'The Brave Tin Soldier' ♥ Inspired!

For more information on the exhibition -  MoonKo 'Watch This Space' 

Zoey Hardwick  'Foxes'

Illustration & collage by Deborah Moon

Untitled by Asa Wikman