About

Curiosity connects everything we make.

Trees, Rivers & UFOs is an independent label run by artist Tone Verge and shaped through creative collaboration.

Clothing, art and objects, connected by curiosity.

WHAT WE ARE

It starts with things that exist in the real world.

People wear them, carry them, hang them on walls and take them somewhere else. That is where TRU begins.

PEOPLE

Woman with short platinum hair wearing a white Orchid Jellyfish T-shirt and black blazer while standing beside a green bicycle on an East London street.

CLOTHING

Man wearing a white Trees, Rivers & UFOs Quackcat T-shirt while sitting forward in a cluttered creative studio.

ART

Framed Treehouse Homes artwork hanging above a cluttered desk in an inhabited creative studio.

OBJECTS

Person leaving an independent shop carrying a cream Trees, Rivers & UFOs Brain Burger tote bag at their side.

WHAT IT MEANS

The name is not a list of subjects.

Trees are growth. Rivers are movement. UFOs are everything we have not quite worked out yet.

Most ideas start somewhere between those three things.

TREES

Old London tree growing around a weathered red post box on a residential street.

RIVERS

Person caught mid-jump between concrete edges beside moving river water on an urban waterfront.

UFOS

Woman eating pizza outside a late-night takeaway while holding an ordinary-looking triangular pizza box horizontally.

STRANGE IDEAS

Messy studio table covered with rough creature drawings, notes, paper, fabric, colour tests and unfinished ideas.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

We like the bit before something is finished.

The bad versions, wrong turns, corrections and accidents matter. An idea usually has to change several times before it knows what it wants to be.

FIRST SKETCH

DEVELOPMENT

FINAL ARTWORK

PHYSICAL PUPPET

WHAT WE MAKE

An idea does not have to end up in one particular place.

It might become something you wear, something you carry, something you live with, or something completely unnecessary that we made because we wanted to see what happened.

Explore our embroidered tees, embroidered sweatshirts, graphic tote bags and limited-edition art prints.

WEAR

CARRY

LIVE WITH

EXPERIMENT

THE CONNECTION

Trees, Rivers & UFOs turns curiosity into things.

Clothing, art, objects, characters, films and experiments.

Trees & Rivers starts from the same instinct but follows it somewhere else. It looks at ideas, people, culture and behaviour.

The work is different. The purpose is different. The curiosity underneath it is the same.

Both begin by paying attention.

Looking at something ordinary for slightly longer than necessary. Following an idea because it feels interesting. Asking what happens if two things that do not obviously belong together are put in the same room.

Sometimes that becomes an article.

Sometimes it becomes a two-headed animal.

Welcome to Trees, Rivers & UFOs.