Solipsistic Pop

I've done the front cover illustratration for Book 1 of Solipsistic Pop comics anthology. Launch is at the ICA this Sunday, 8th of Novemeber.

+BLOOM+ exhibition at Welcome Home

Wiped window installation and scratched shadow chairs made especially for the +BLOOM+ opening exhibition at Welcome Home. More images here.

+ BLOOM + at Welcome Home

+ BLOOM + 3rd- 31st of October at Welcome Home in Glasgow
I will be exhibiting in the group show named BLOOM in the new space and store in Glasgow.
CROSS POLLINATION. Breaking down barriers between disciplines and techniques, with a focus on the handmade, the illustrative and a modern take on traditional crafts - the processes and the results.

When I'm 64...

I made a mobile using lots of little golden wheelchairs for my Dad's 64th birthday - in the hope he won't won't be needing one anytime soon.. but to mark becoming a golden oldie!

back garden window patterns

NYsee

some pictures from my recent trip to New York.
telephone wires in Brooklyn, memorial flowers and horse&carriage in Central Park and the blurred view of the Immigration Center from my bedroom window. to see more please click for my flickr album here.

recent pin flower

Half finished pin picture done last week. Commissioned by a friend

spring flower splash

splashing around with a liberty flower print

Mystery Blue Heritage Poster at Shipley's

A mysterious blue heritage style poster has emerged on both Shipley's window and Murder One a few doors up Charing Cross Road.. since being closed this year. there is a mention too in the time out blog ..none of us know who has done it.

it reads: SHIPLEY BOOKS 1983-2008
A mecca for art lovers frequented by the likes of John Berger, Peter Blake, Annie Liebowitz and Susan Sontag. After 25 years of trading it closed it's doors at 70 Charing Cross Road on Christmas eve 2008.

Hen Invite Sketches

Some pattern sketches done for my sister's hen party invitations.

Shipley Bookshop window

Goodbye to Shipley's at 70 Charing Cross Road.

No. 70 Charing Road

Long exposure of reflections of the pattern made on the wall.

Poor old Shipley Bookshop is now closed. So I thought it would be a little farewell to wipe a pattern out of the now empty window..

pins

pin and thread flower

some sketchbook pages

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Greenhouse

my sister's greenhouse

DKNY

Commission for the Old Bond Street DKNY Shop. Three large panels made for the exhibition of emerging talent (autumn/winter 2004)

DKNcY

scratching the walls

Johnny's DIY, Deptford

Window for Johnny's DIY shop on Deptford High Street. Summer 2007



This is a drawing technique I use to wipe away a whitewashed window surface to reveal a pattern to peer through. I used the style to create a window display for Johnny’s DIY Shop for the summer ‘Made in Deptford’ festival in 2007. The organisers invited local artists and designers to choose a shop on the high street to decorate for the occasion - I liked the idea of covering a DIY shop in white flowers and foliage.