Hello!! My next pop up in Tokyo is this weekend! On Sunday! It’s at the WPÜ Hotel in Shinjuku : )

Details:

[8.30 (Sun)
1pm - 6pm
Still Life
Pop up by Tess Smith-Roberts]

Still Life is a pop up hosted by Tess Smith-Roberts. Featuring a pop up shop, still life workshop, and an exhibition. Still Life invites visitors to participate in a still life drawing workshop, where you can draw or collage from a still life setting that we will set up in the space. Think gingham table cloth, food, flowers, candles… etc. Tess can provide drawing exercises for you to do, or you can freely draw the scene in front of you. Drawing tools and paper will be provided, but feel free to bring your own if you’d like. Drop by anytime for the workshop. We will also be exhibiting Tess’ food illustrations, and selling Tess’ merchandise during the pop up. The event + workshop are free to attend.

2026年8月30日（日）】
13:00〜18:00

<Still Life>は、Tess Smith-Robertsが開催するポップアップイベントです。

会場では、Tessのグッズをお買い求め頂けるグッズコーナー、どなたでも無料で参加頂ける静物画ワークショップ、そして作品展示をお楽しみいただけます。

ワークショップでは、会場内に設置された物を見ながら、デッサンやコラージュを制作できます。ギンガムチェックのテーブルクロス、食べ物、花、キャンドルなどを組み合わせた物を予定しています。

Tessによるドローイングの練習メニューに挑戦することもできますし、目の前の物を自由に描いていただくこともできます。

画材と紙はこちらでご用意していますが、ご自身のお気に入りの画材をお持ちいただいても構いません。ワークショップは開催時間中であれば、お好きな時間にご参加いただけます。

また、会場ではTessによる食べ物をモチーフにしたイラスト作品の展示に加え、オリジナルグッズの販売も行います。

I’ll have lots of merch with me too, like these stickers. And this fruit glass!

And these plates!!

See you there!!

🍎 Tess 🍎

Hi hiiiii! I have an exhibition on in Kyoto! All inspired by my love of picnics and picnic food. It opened last weekend at Creative OOO, and it’s on until the 14th July. Here’s some piccies!

My giant cherry inflatable in the window! It was a rainy weekend ☔️

I have a new strawberry inflatable too. It’s way bigger than I expected, so we had to put him in this corner!

If you’re in Kyoto and visit the show, please tag me in any pics! I’d love to see!

Thanks for reading!!

🐜🍎🐜Tess 🐜🍎🐜

Hello ! I’ll be at Kamihaku, a paper expo in Tokyo, this coming weekend ! Friday 13th to Sunday 15th. I’ll have some new wrapping paper and memo pads with me, as well as the usual bits ! Stickers, notebooks, zines, prints, plushies etc. I’m on the 4th floor, at booth 12 :o)

紙博 in 東京 vol.12
Friday, March 13 - Sunday, March 15
Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center, Taito

See you there!!!

🌟🍎Tess 🍎🌟

It’s on now until the 1st March, on the 5th floor.

We made sooo many new products for this! The last couple of months have been crazy :’) I have new plushies, keychains and pouches. There’s dogs, strawberries, bread… etc. New stickers, including a konbini sheet. As well a cat one!! People have been asking me to do cats for years, and this one is my first cat product! My new zines are also here, the Food zine, which is a collection of all my food drawings from the past five years. As well as my fruit sticker zine, a 5cm zine with all the new fruit stickers I’ve drawn lately. We also have notebooks, risograph prints, digital prints (coming v soon), acrylic keychains… etc ! So many fun things!

I will also be doing some portraits on the 13th & 15th February… more details coming soon!

Here are some pics !

Please tag me in pics if you visit :o)

Thanks for reading!!

🍎Tess 🍎

We will be releasing them monthly, so I need your submissions please, if you’d like to share them. And don’t worry, they will all be kept anonymous, so no one will know your embarrassing secrets! You can either DM me on instagram or send me an email.

Here is comic no.1:

Also, I recommend having a mooch through the other comics on Ginza mag’s website! So many gems!

Tess xoxo

P.s I can’t wait to hear your embarrassing stories !

Hello! Sadly I have to pause my US shipping due to the tariffs coming in. This is so sad as 70% of my customers are based in America. It’s been announced that tariffs will be put in place on all small shipments sent to the US, and it’s looking like for the next 6 months there will be an $80 flat rate import fee for every package sent over. No matter how small. Hopefully things will change after that, but I will be moving in October so my shop will be temporarily closed for a year(ish) anyway. So to all my customers based in America, this is the last time for a while that you can place an order in my online shop. I will pause shipping to the US on the 17th August (this Sunday). For everyone else, my online shop will close in mid/end September, so you have just over a month.

Thank you so much to everyone who’s placed an order recently, I really appreciate it! Please tag me in any photos you take of your plushies :o)

Thank you!!

Tess 🍒🍎💖

Shop here!

Hi hi!!

It’s been a while. Here’s a little message to say that my shop is open again, for newsletter subscribers, like you, first! I’ll open it up to the public on Sunday at some point, so you get first dibs on everything. (Some older items are low in stock!)

I have new plushies, including a keychain one, which I am very excited about. Some postcards, and my zine All The Dogs I Saw in Tokyo. As well as all of the usual bits.

Currently, I don’t have any embroidered hats, but if I get enough interest I might restock them next month.

This summer is the last time I will have my shop open for a while (maybe a year or more), as I’m moving to Tokyo in October. Which is so exciting!

To celebrate here’s 10% off with the code SHOP10

✨🍎 Tess 🍎✨

Here are some pictures from the show. :o)

The exhibition is on until the 28th June! Tag me in pictures if you check it out!

✨🍎 Tess 🍎✨

Hi Hi! I just got back from a lovely trip to Singapore, where we opened my new exhibition Hello Singapore! It’s at the new Heartware Store & Gallery, on Joo Chiat Road. There’s some exclusive pieces inspired by Singapore, like the durian wooden sculpture and the kaya toast print. A few things have sold out (which is crazy), but we are working on a restock and should have some new things soon. A new and exclusive print might also be happening too!

Thank you so much to everyone who’s visited so far!

Here’s some pics from the opening! It runs until the 25th May.

For my next exhibition I’m going to Genoa!! Hello Genoa will open on the first floor of Raro from the 16th May, until the 28th June.

We will be showing a selection of existing and new work, including some exclusive pieces. We will have the usual prints in colourful frames, as well as food themed wooden sculptures. A selection of merch (hats, stickers, keychains etc) will be available too.

Opening night is Friday the 16th May, 6pm to 9:30pm. We will have some local natural wines. Everyone is welcome!

Live portraits on Saturday 17th May! 3pm to 5pm. First come first serve!

See you there!!

Thanks for reading!!

Tess 🍎

I’ll be doing The Other Art Fair in a few weeks and I’m super excited! I’ll have a range of fruit sculptures with me, and some giant fruit cut outs too! As well as the usual stuff, like prints, hats, stickers, keychains etc!!

Here’s a peak at my messy desk with some freshly made fruit sculptures…

And some finished and unfinished giant fruits!!

I’ll also be doing portraits on the Friday evening from 7pm to 9pm, and on the Saturday afternoon from 3pm to 5pm.

Use code TESSSMITH20 for a discount on tickets!!

Hopefully see you there!!

Tess 🍎

I’d like to make some fun posts about other things too - maybe nice projects I’ve worked on, exhibitions I’ve liked, TV shows I’ve watched, tasty things I’ve eaten lately, etc etc. Maybe you’ll get one of these extra big posts every few months or so… I might even do some extras for paid subscribers but that is TBD. For now just pick the free subscriber option!!

If you’ve made it here, well done, here’s a gift!! Use SUBSTACK10 to get 10% off my recently re-opened online shop!

💖🌷🍒🍎 Tess 🍎🍒🌷💖