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About Fox & Thistle Studio

Hampton Roads, Virginia

Fox & Thistle Studio blends art, history, and storytelling into everything we create. These elements shape our graphic designs, upcycled creations, and vintage treasures. Objects, images, and words carry echoes of the past—and we delight in weaving them into something new.

Banner collage image showcasing some of the graphic design and artwork from Fox & Thistle Studio. Featuring a Fortnight Calendar, Europa and the bull, Fertility statuettes, Some who Wander are Lost, a series of 9 foxes, skeleton print, and a collage of upcycled goods.

Graphic Design as Storytelling

Our graphic designs draw inspiration from history, literature, and the shared visual language that has shaped human culture for ages. Cave paintings, root words, medieval marginalia… we have a deep appreciation for what came before, and can often be found haunting Wikimedia Commons and the public domain.

Reclaimed & Upcycled Goods

Our passion for vintage extends beyond collecting—we actively repurpose, reuse, and upcycle. Sourcing second-hand from auctions and estate sales, we curate treasures with stories already woven in, and transform others into functional art. 

A Patchwork...

Fox & Thistle Studio is, at its heart, a hodgepodge of creative pursuits: flipping vintage, rebuilding furniture, designing apparel, writing poetry, and tying together loose threads. It’s a space where sustainability, craftsmanship, and curiosity try to trade secrets.,

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In Spirit…

Fox & Thistle is about piecing things together—and sometimes letting them fall apart again.

-Richard W. Saunders

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  • Man riding a unicycle through a graveyard, black-and-white foreground with blue sky and rainbow background.
    formative years
  • Man standing barefoot on a porch’s top step around Halloween, wearing lederhosen and a fedora, legs confidently apart. A black dog sits between his legs. He holds a small child dressed in a red cape in his left arm. Halloween decorations include a skeleton hanging at the top right, a brown skull on a stand to the left, and two pumpkins on opposite steps. The man looks directly at the camera with a slight smirk.
    the team
  • A man dressed in 18th-century colonial aristocratic attire with a navy blue hat, coat, and gold-scrollwork vest stands indoors surrounded by paintings. He holds an oil lamp in one hand while the other is poised as if reaching out, wearing a whimsical expression and gazing past the lamp at something extraordinary just beyond the frame.
    lately

I’m Richard — the head, heart, and tail behind Fox & Thistle Studio — a tangle of curiosity, creativity, and compulsion. I design graphics, upcycle discarded objects, collect vintage oddities, and write in an ongoing attempt to weave it all together.

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Fox & Thistle Studio seamlessly blends curiosity, creativity, and sustainability. Rooted in the idea that simplicity speaks volumes, our essence is embodied in the paradoxical, insightful, and endlessly playful nature of finding and creating.