The gorgeous Padstow Townhouse - a boutique hotel nestled within a large, eighteenth century house in Padstow's Old Town - and its Michelin starred restaurant Paul Ainsworth at No.6, now feature two of Rivans' pin-ups: Sugar Queen, a beautiful reworking of Sophia Loren, and Amelia, a twist on the iconic Audrey Hepburn - both of whom look right at home in their new, decadent space (and beside a Tracey Emin, too)!
In October 2015, Scarlett was commissioned as the face of the Nordea Banking campaign at Stockholm's Affordable Art Fair. Gracing the covers of glossy magazines and brightening the walls at the Nordea stand, Scarlett was blossoming, with her tumbling headdress and sparkling blue eyes.
In 2015, two of Maria's pin-up girls - Carina and Delilah - were commissioned by the Saatchi Gallery, as the faces for international fashion shows Scoop and Scoop London.
Several of Maria's Pin-ups, including Godiva and Billie Ray, are decorating the walls at Percy and Founders, a sate-of-the-art restaurant and bar in London's fashionable Fitzrovia.
Brighton's brilliant Simon Webster Hair now has a limited edition framed Sugar Queen gracing its walls - time for a trim, sweet majesty?
Images from 'Popcorn Noir', a 2015 solo show with Saatchi Gallery, London.
The show was an exhibition of original works and prints, inspired by three, vintage films: Hitchcock's 'Rear Window', 'A Stolen Life' starring Bette Davis, and a number of the 1930s 'Tarzan' series. Staging a collage within a collage, the exhibition deconstructed and reassembled stills from the iconic films across the entire collection.
Tarzania
Original Collage on Paper
116 x 85cm Framed
In October 2014, Lady Valentina was used as the face of London's Affordable Art Fair, held in Battersea. Splashed across the city - from bus sides to tube stations - the glamorous pin-up enjoyed her glorious moment...
Public Art, Korea's leading magazine for contemporary art, used Jeanne Genie, an original collage, for the cover of a 2014 edition.
Penguin Books commissioned Maria to design a book cover for Joseph Conrad's timeless classic Heart of Darkness.
The brief was short: the cover had to look "modern and different." Maria applied her pin-up process, building exotic flora and fauna, hidden figures and animals, over an antique photographic portrait. With a sitter resembling the book's narrator, Marlow, Maria layered snakes, maps, and skulls - some of the book's most evocative images - to create her unique visual response.
The result was a success, capturing the dark and brooding atmosphere of one of the nineteenth century's most captivating works of literature.
