Employee benefits magazine

Heres a recent illustration for employee benefits magazine.

The fact i often draw the back of figures , often looking off into some horizon has been mentioned before.

But with this job I wanted to pick up on an indirect link  to an earlier observation drawing of a man looking out of a  hospital window....

and then the following woodcut ( which is still in progress).

At the moment  it feels like my drawing and printmaking is  aesthetically moving further away from my illustration work, but through this job is was nice to see how it still informs it. Whilst obvious, its good to validate that play, making work for ones self can still feed the commisioned work.

Portfolio update

My portfolio has been updated by my agent Heart
you can check it out here.

Characters

Heres some character designs that i recently did for a project that i cant talk about for legal reasons. However these characters didnt end up being used

Recent Editorials

Heres a recent selection of editorials from the last couple of months. I was lucky enough to work on a few  narrative pieces for the excellent Prospect Magazine. The one here was called 'Another Russian Tale ' by Roberto Bolano

Heres another recent editorial piece, this time for Institional Investor

The following two where for St Kids Magazine . The piece was on the history, and modern day use of The Museum of Childhood by its local community

Water animation montage

Earlier this year I worked on an animation project. My artwork was beautifully animated by Layla  over at Trunk . i cant say  much  more than that fro now as its not out until september.
Unitl then here is a montage

New York Times

Its been a while since any blog posts so over the next week ill try to do a few catch up posts, showing the recent work I have been up to.
Here is the most recent, an editorial piece which appeared in last sundays New York Times for fathers day.

Channel

Over the last few months the  Camberwell University Illustration and graphic design students have been working hard on producing their own TV channel. It starts today from 9am and runs for 24hr. Its a mix of pre-recorded and live shows that deals with the medium of televison. It will air on the following site www.secondchannel.co.uk and is being broadcast live from the Sassoon gallery. Tune in and enjoy.

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.