its nice that

interview and photos of our forth coming peepshow book on 'it's nice that' today

Peepshow book

So last year we ( peepshow) were busy putting together a book of our work that is published by index book and out in april. ill write more about its contents and the process nearer the time but for now here is a short video preview

Index Book | Peepshow collective book from Index Book on Vimeo.

crane.tv

crane. tv were kind enough to pay me a visit at the studio to talk about my work,illustration and peepshow. watch the video below or visit their site to look at further features on art , design and fashion

Heart New Year Banner

New work to welcome in the New Year in the form of a banner for my agent, Hearts website

Independent

new illustration out in todays independent

Its Nice That

Thanks to Its Nice That for asking me to be be featured on their Bookshelf post.

You can read about some of the books that sit by me in my studio and influence my work here

Artistic.ly

New print for sale via Artistic.ly. An exhibition of all the artist prints , including Andrew Rae, Miles Donovan and Spencer Wilson opens tonight at Loading Bay Gallery, The Old Truman Brewery.

The prints are 50 x 70 cm on 310gsm German etching paper, edition of 50 and come framed.

they will be available to buy online shorty after

Nobrow issue 6

Nobrow 6 ' The Double' is now out and its a great issue. Half the issue is single panel illustrations and the other are double page comics, included some great work from SophyHollington, Paul Paetzel, Richard Short and many many more.

Heres my contribution to the issue, the original , and how its translates into Nobrows pantone colour way

Independent

I was commissoned to do two covers for a supplement about living with cancer in the Independent. The first image was to do with the practical help and support with everyday tasks, provided by the Macmillian charity. The second cover will be out next month.

FTI journal

I was recently commissioned to come up with rough ideas for the cover of FTI journal.

The piece was about new regulations in the finance sector, and how there is still room for businesses to maneuver. The image had to be non figuraitve, speak to a global market and not take one side of the argument. Overall I did 5 roughs but here are just two.

The illustrations won't be used as a photography direction was chosen in the end

Gabon Magazine

recent illustration for an article about the logging industry in Gabon

Readers digest

recent illustration for readers digest. The article talks about the reasons why it is better to be single

studio music

Studio music was created my rose blake and gives you an insight into the music that surrounds a variety of art and design practitioners . I was kindly asked to add a playlist of some of the music that informs my daily working process, so if you fancy a listen, hear it is.

Nobrow issue 6

I was lucky enough to be asked to create some work for Nobrow issue 6 on the Theme of Doppleganger. My idea was based on th idea that if you see your own doppleganger, you die.

The image below is just a small section to show how I've tried to use the 4 pantone colours that were supplied by Nobrow. Its out at the start of november so ill post more then

Geo Wissen Nr 47

Four illustrations for german science magazine Geo Wissen out in November .

All four are on the the theme of psychological resilience

summer work

over the summer i was lucky enough to have a week away , looking after a friends dog and being able to use their printing press. I was able to print at a larger format (57 x 45 cm) and produced the following reduction woodcut reduction. I am trying to get the balance right between the planning that is needed for the colours to work but allow the drawing to have room to manoever and have some fluidity. I relied on a previous subject matter for the content to allow me to focus more on the technique. This is an edition of 7

Inbetween printing it was good to spend some time concentrating on drawing .As an action it gives me real enjoyment but there seems to be a growing distance between this and my illustration work.I think more work and time is needed to work out a way of processing the drawing, finding a method were it retains certain qualities but has a usability

Mural

Over the summer I did quite a few pitches for jobs that didn't happen.

Firstly i was asked to test for a 15 m mural for a coffee shop.

I did a 1-2m section for the test. The idea from the client was that the mural would tell the 'story' behind coffee and would be able to break down into 16 different usable illustrations. This was a good challenge but in trying to make the mural encompass 16 sections the overall section lost something- a change in scale and the rythym of it became quite flat. If the job had progressed, a bolder section would of been needed in the following meters. This also partly happen because I found it problematic working on screen for something thats should be at a large scale.

starting to catch up

Its been a while since I posted so they will be a few catch up posts over the next couple of days

firstly heres an editorial for for Harpers Magazine- who always provide a nice short story to illustrate from.

New York Times

A nice quick one day turn around job out in todays The New York Times.

An interesting article about the problems of multiculturalism as a political policy on the anniversary of the London 7/7 bombings

world of interiors

New illustration out now in this months World of Interiors