Agyness Agyness Deyn – textile portrait (2008) This is a textile portrait of Agyness Deyn, high-profile fashion model. The piece comprises reclaimed fabric scraps, used to reflect Ryder’s concerns with the environment. The artwork was rendered using both computerised embroidery and extremely simple hand-stitching to represent the contrast between high technology and simple craft – the extremes of the fashion industry.
Green Dress (2012) Produced for FAJO Magazine, this is a very loose watercolour image, showing a model in a glamorous green chiffon evening gown. The mottled effects in the image are achieved using “Brusho” dyes – a technique Ryder has begun to experiment with in recent months.
Yellow Bow with Flowers (2012) Produced for FAJO Magazine, following the brief of "fashion with a twist", this illustration offers a quirky, "circus clown" mood suggested by the hairstyle, use of primary colours and oversized yellow bow. Stopping short of adding a red nose, Ryder added a couple of yellow daisy hairslides instead. This is a watercolour image, blended with her own photography, seen in the daisy hairslides.
Pink Ruff (2012) Produced for FAJO Magazine, this illustration continues the quirky "circus" theme portrayed in “Yellow Bow with Flowers”. It depicts a design for a trapeze dress (itself a play on words) that sports another Ryder illustration (black shadow, 2010). This image was produced using Ryder's signature watercolour style, again blended with photography in the dahlia flowers on the shoes.
Pink Ruff – detail (2012) This image clearly shows the very loose watercolour style and minimal detail in the face of the final illustration. The "pink ruff" of the title is reminiscent of the dahlias that adorn the shoes of the fulllength figure in the final image.
Produced for FAJO Magazine, this illustration continues the quirky "circus" theme portrayed in “Yellow Bow with Flowers”. It depicts a design for a trapeze dress (itself a play on words) that sports another Ryder illustration (black shadow, 2010). This image was produced using Ryder's signature watercolour style, again blended with photography in the dahlia flowers on the shoes.
Pink Ruff – detail (2012) This image clearly shows the very loose watercolour style and minimal detail in the face of the final illustration. The "pink ruff" of the title is reminiscent of the dahlias that adorn the shoes of the fulllength figure in the final image.
Kate Moss – textile portrait (2009) This is a textile portrait of Kate Moss, high-profile fashion model. It is entirely hand-rendered and composed of reclaimed fabric scraps, to express Ryder’s concerns with sustainability and the environment – and their uneasy relationship with the fashion industry. The piece was produced during a stay in a hospital. A twenty-pound note (GBP) was printed onto reclaimed fabric and used as part of the embroidery to represent the money – and greed – involved in the fashion industry.
Zandra Rhodes – portrait (2012) This is an example of Carol Ryder's portraiture. It depicts a young Zandra Rhodes, high-profile British fashion and textile designer. The portrait was executed exclusively in watercolour, in a fashion illustration style, from a photograph supplied by Rhodes.
Lily Cole – textile portrait portrait (2008) This is a textile portrait of Lily Cole, high-profile fashion model. The piece comprises reclaimed fabric scraps, used to reflect Ryder’s concerns with the environment. The piece was rendered using both computerised embroidery and extremely simple hand-stitching – to represent the contrast between high technology and simple craft.
Summer Hat (2012) Produced for FAJO Magazine. This is a close-up of a face, which is a style of illustration that Ryder particularly enjoys. The colours suggest a hot, sultry summer evening, while the design of the hat is provided by photographic images of pink hydrangeas from Ryder's own garden.
Carol Ryder Avatar (2012) Produced for FAJO Magazine, this watercolour avatar depicts Ryder’s signature "orange hair" and silver eyebrow ring.