Time Out Shanghai February

Rather late in posting this, but here's a cat-based illustration for last month's issue of Time Out Shanghai, article written by John Sunyer, a review of the book Chinese Whiskers by Pallavi Aiyar.

ALICE BY TEMPERLEY

Last year I was hugely excited to be asked by the fantastic Alice Temperley to provide the illustrations for a range of T-shirts for her SS11 Alice By Temperley collection.

The collection is inspired by the 'Last Queen of France', Marie Antoinette. Above is the first design, a Cameo print white vest top-I will post more as I have them.

To see the full collection, visit www.alicebytemperley.com

The Clock

Anyone who is near the Southbank centre from right now until 6.30 tomorrow evening MUST go and see Christian Marclay's 24 hour film The Clock, a beautiful moving collage. I was tempted to stay all night

Japan continued

Developing imagery created during a commission about Japanese fashion (coming out soon), I have been exploring colours and layers in screenprinting.

The Ride Journal

An illustration featured in The Ride Journal, Issue 5 which has just been launched. Have a look HERE for more information- it is a lovely magazine for people who love bicycles, highly recommended

Japan

An image from a commission I'm currently working on exploring Japanese fashion.
More to come soon...

Happy New Year!

Some dancing ladies to start off the year

Zine B

My piece entitled The Bacchae, which features in the newly released Zine B, curated by the extremely talented Jake Blanchard of Tor Press. The Zine features work by a great selection of illustrators- Chrissie Abbott, Hoagy Houghton and Joe Crocker to name just a few.
Click HERE for more information

Wintery

Nymphs and Dior!

Another collage from the Forest series, the ongoing project I've been working on. I've been doing some experiments using more colours, patterns and abstract shapes to create backgrounds.

In other news I went to the (extremely glamourous!) private view for the fantastic new exhibition Dior Illustrated: René Gruau and the Line of Beauty at Somerset House last week.

The show is a retrospective of the work of illustrator Gruau and features his collaborations with the fashion house throughout the decades, along with a selection of contemporary illustrators' homages to some of his pieces. Personally its the style, the movement and complete simplicity of Gruau's illustrations that I love, they perfectly compliment the Dior style. He is the king of fashion illustration!

The exhibition also features beautiful graphic design by Studio Frith. Wonderful stuff.

Wood Nymphs continued

Some more work in progress from a series inspired by tales of wood nymphs.

I have been thinking for a while now about the idea of forests/nymphs. A lot of folklore I read explores in various forms the female spirit, and its link to nature- the symbolism is obvious, but there is something in these different representations of 'women', nymphs, goddesses of natural elements that interest me.

More to come soon

Oxfam

A belated post of a poster design I created for Oxfam's Oxjam Kilburn Fashion Show last month.

Wood Nymphs

Two pieces from a new series I'm working on. Have also just added these to my website along with some other new bits.

SHOP OPEN OPEN SHOP

After much dithering my online shop is finally up and running!
CLICK HERE to visit it- I am selling a selection of Screenprints - including this new one 'The Moon'. There's also a few high quality digital prints of my pieces. And hopefully some other fun things coming soon too!

New Screen Prints!

Interesting Things

I recommend taking a look at this wonderful blog by Oliver Laughland a very talented multimedia journalist. It features some fascinating investigative pieces- the most recent of which is an exploration of the hidden parts of Singapore inspired by his time spent living there. Click HERE to visit the blog. Go on.

New Statesman 16/04

Here's an illustration I did for this week's New Statesman magazine, for a book review by Roy Hattersley.
I've been lucky to be working on some really exciting projects of late, more information soon

Sketchbooks

Time Out Shanghai

2 dancing-themed illustrations produced for the current issue of Time Out Shanghai. The first is for an article 'The Last Dance', written by John Sunyer, exploring Shanghai's dancing culture. The second is for the Gay and Lesbian section, an article about the Lai Lai Dancehall.

More Screenprints

Hello, apologies for my lack of posting of late, I have been busy working on a number of commissions, which I'll be putting up here soon.
For now here are two more screenprints from the series I'm working on---