Good Morning, Bournemouth Cemetry.

I chose a landscape that I found eerily beautiful and went colour mad. I love printmaking.

Thank You

I made this card as a thank you to illustrator Matthew Richardson who 

has kindly donated a print of his work for our fund raising evening. 

"Botanical Art" New prints!

Aah what a long day! I finished my 'aubergine prediction print', Twice! 

Here they both are - as well as a photo of my real Aubergine babies.. 

I have just sent these off to Artist and Illustrators Magazine for their Botanical Art issue.

Welcome to the world little aube!

So.. after a few weeks of having almost entirely given up on my little aubes sprouting, I finally found my first baby, unfurling itself out of the soil! Excited, I carried it around the house, introducing it to my housemates. Welcome to the world little aube!

Aubergine Prediction

A work in progress...

that's three things that is

The spoon bent and broke, and I chopped a worm in half with it. Poor worm.

I know Size-ism isn't cool, but that fork - small and useless!

The spatula is too important for cooking eggs, I cant risk it.

Tool Academy

My first tentative steps into the garden, armed with a spatula...

I call this piece 'tool selection, the line up'

A mono print using a roller, stencils and inks.

Winner!

In a silent auction I bagged these beautiful prints by artist illustrators who I love:

Check out annasteinberg.co.uk & marcellehanselaar.com

New Inks!

Mmmmmm!

Learning to Love Landscapes

Playing about with the visual style that I developed in December, I'm trying to learn to love landscapes. I don't like drawing hundreds of trees -I bloody hate it, so with this way of printmaking hopefully I can make it enjoyable! The top two are inspired by a visit to the Russel Coates Museum and Art Gallery, and below is a copy of Raoul Dufy's Racetrack at Deauville. And, yep, I have enjoyed doing these..

Culmination

These images echo human experiences, floating somewhere between wonder and fear in an amazing but inhospitable world.

A New Publication!

Available on Amazon: amazon.co.uk/Pioneers-Highland-Tracks-Biography-Engineers/dp/0954548558/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291211675&sr=8-1

Exhibition

I exhibited this piece at the recent This Is Nautical Nonsense exhibition in Bournemouth.
Check out their website: thisissomething.co.uk
My A2 poster is available to buy for £6 here: www.shop.thisissomething.co.uk/gallery.html

Dear Lino,

Well, the deadline for the Nautical Nonsense passed, rendering my work a Naughty Non-submission, but I shall persevere.

the third year fear...

I'm working on a competition brief called "Nautical Nonsense" (thisissomething.co.uk) So, a lot of playing about. Here is some of my development work created with lino printing, paper cutting and a touch of computer editing...


I worked on the design of this book with Pencil Ltd. earlier in the year and finally have a copy. I did mostly photoshoping images and laying out in Indesign.



This is an illustration I did 3 years ago and then reworked recently, it will be published soon in a book called 'Pioneers of British Rail' or something.