Inspiration

Yayoi Kusama's work is diverse, obsessive, full of mystery.  I love it.   Having seen this exhibition earlier in the summer at Madrid's Reina Sofia gallery, I am ridiculously excited that it will begin next month at Tate.

Card Designs

On a warm (er) day a little while ago I spent an afternoon at my local park in South London drawing people.  I like that this sort of task means drawings must stay quick, simple and loose to adapt to the constantly moving subject matter.
I plan to develop some of these into a set of screen printed card designs, so here is the first

Sirius

I've recently been developing some ideas from a project I started earlier in the year into screen prints - here is the first print (edition of 6) in what's planned to be a series of 5.

The (loose) inspiration for the project came from drawings of Star Constellations. I often find I am a bit of a colour-phobe- so this will also be an opportunity to explore colour a little

Hobbs House Bakery

Last week I was commissioned by the lovely Hobbs House Bakery to screen print 250 of my navy Christmas cards for their xmas customer mailout.

I created 5 designs for the card, and each was hand printed- more photos of the final designs up soon.

These cards are also available to buy at the wonderful Nothing But Navy online shop

Patty & Bun

Myself and good pal HOAGY spent a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon on Friday working on a collaborative project- creating a set of blackboards for the PATTY & BUN Pop up, a night of Burgers and Cocktails in West London.

Here are some pictures of our creations- I worked on some of the signage while Hoagy created a psychedelic chalkboard mural masterpiece, and we worked together on 35 mini chalkboards featuring burger-related quotes and quips.

I also designed the flyer for the event, seen at the bottom here.

Naturally I had to put up a picture of the Patty & Bun burger, it was ridiculously tasty.

PS I thoroughly recommend a peruse around Hoagy's website, his work is mysterious and magical, rather like him.

Tonight NOTHING BUT NAVY opening

The NOTHING BUT NAVY Christmas Pop Up in Stroud opens this evening. If you happen to be around Stroud tonight or any night until Christmas eve, go and have a peruse, the shop is crammed full of lovely things, all made with love in shades of Navy blue.

I am selling navy screen printed cards seen above, in packs of 3, each with a snippet of a different Christmas carol. There is also screen printed wrapping paper and some original screen prints. PLUS lots of other things for sale from many many clever people. A selection of the products will also be available to buy online, more information on the lovely Navy website.

www.nothingbutnavyshop.com

Wrap

More Christmas products, this time wrapping paper, which I'm in the process of Screen printing. My products will also be on sale at the LAZERIAN Christmas Pop Up shop in Manchester, again more info and photos soon

Cards

Some work in progress, christmas cards I am currently screenprinting. These cards and other things including screen printed wrapping paper will be sold as part of the NOTHING BUT NAVY pop up Christmas shop, a shop of entirely Navy Blue. The shop opens December 1st, More information very soon

Details

Some beautifully crafted kneelers I discovered hidden away in a countryside church recently. I particularly like the details and pattern of the Poppy tapestry

Jan Švankmajer - Jabberwocky

Inspiration

Polish and Czech film posters from 1960s.

75 Peters

Sir Peter Cook is an iconic British architect, founder of Archigram and former director of the ICA.

I am involved in an exhibition along with 74 other illustrators to commemorate his birthday. Each illustrator was invited to create a portrait of Sir Peter, which all will be auctioned for the charity Architecture For Humanity. My contribution, which you can see above, is a screen print.

'75 Peters' is curated by the Adam and Eve Project in partnership with Sir Peter and begins on 26th October in Brisbane- details above. As you can see the line up for the show is fantastic with some brilliant illustrators: Mike Perry, Andrew Rae and Ian Wright among many many more involved.

All the artworks in the exhibition can be very soon viewed here: http://theadamandeveprojects.com/75peters - the online auction will also take place here starting 26th October.

Pan Tone

Earlier this year I was approached by the German musician Haushcka to create an image for his forthcoming album 'Pan Tone'. It was Released last month by Berlin record label Sonic Pieces: a label which focuses on releasing handmade and limited edition CDs and EPs.

The album is a musical collaboration between Haushcka, an experimental pianist and Hildur Guðnadóttir an Icelandic cellist, and was originally recorded when the duo performed in 2010 as part of Arctic Circle - Bubbly Blue and Green festival at Kings Place in London.

Each composition is named after a different Pantone colour, each a different colour of the sea, and so the design of the EP and illustration follow in this theme. I produced an illustration for the inlay using only two of the Pantone colours from the album, plus black. The image is inspired by the Leviathan sea monster myth.

There is a limited number of the EP and CDs, each embossed and numbered, hand bound and beautifully designed by Sonic Pieces.

Grey Magazine

Grey Magazine is an biannual fashion Magazine. It's 5th issue for AW11/12 is out now, and I was asked to create two illustrations to accompany a collection of poems by JM Parham themed around London, seen here above.

I will always love working for magazines like Grey- aside from it's design, it combines literature, fashion and illustration in such an innovative way.

I have posted some photos of the issue below just because I was so impressed with the quality of imagery featured. For me the stand-out features are a fantastic photographic story by Todd Hido about the New York public library, and Julie Verhoeven's contribution, both of which are artists I hugely admire.