Zarina Liew is a freelance fashion illustrator and award-winning comic artist based in the UK. She works part-time in luxury fashion, and paints and draws from her home-studio in West London.

Zarina’s work is inspired primarily by fashion design: from 1920s culture, vintage-retro chic, early Japanese woodblock prints to 19th century British illustration – all of these elements have enabled her to develop her drawing style, illustrating her love of fashion and sequential art.

As part of the UK’s Alternative Press Scene she is also a keen self-publisher, frequenting vintage and craft fairs within the London area, selling her prints and art books.


Clients include:

The Clothes Whisperer
Beautiful Soul
Amelia's Magazine
BBC Worldwide
Spindle Magazine
Oops! Fashion
Who’s Jack
Fuzzy Zebra Ltd
& More...


Awards & Press:

May 2010 Interview with Resonance FM
Interview on Panel Borders re: the Manga Jiman 2009
(In association of the Japanese Embassy)

February 2010 Manga Jiman 2009 Winner
2nd Place winner of Manga Jiman 2009
(In association of the Japanese Embassy)

September 2009 London Japan Festival
Winner of Japan Matsuri Art Competition
(as part of Japan UK 150)

February 2009 Guardian Guide
For the Japanese Art Festival 28.02.09

January 2009 Amelia's Magazine
Interview with Amelia's Magazine online blog.

September 2008 Open Magazine
For the Hunter Exhibition 11.09.08

August 2008 YEN Magazine
Featured in the magazine's online blog 07.08.08

February 2008 richmond.gov.uk
For the Liveline Comics Open Exhibition 22.02.08


Exhibitions:

February - March 2010 The Sun and the Moon
Japanese Embassy, London
(As part of the winners exhibition for Manga Jiman 2009)

September 2009 The Grateful Crane: Farewell
Spitalfields Market, London
(As part of the winners exhibition at the London Japan Festival)

September 2008 The Hunter
Kemistry Gallery, London
(As part of the Shoreditch Shuffle 2008 Festival)

May 2008 The Ballad of the English Nose
La Viande Gallery, London
("East Meets West" Group exhibition for Who's Jack Magazine)

March - April 2008 Chinese New Year
Riverside Gallery, Richmond
(Group exhibition for Liveline Comics Open)

October 2007 Letters of Suzurandai
The Goodship Gallery, London

February 2007 Nicetouch! Collection
Nicetouch! Beauty Salon, Oxford
(private commission)

September 2006 Vintage Now
Leonard Street Gallery, London
(Group exhibition for JR Rouche)

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