What Our Readers Dream About

What Our Readers Dream About

Sunday Times Magazine – November 30th 1969 Illustrating a readers real life sleep experience from a survey created by the newspaper for the feature article. This particular experience finds the reader waking up in a dream, confused about what was and was not the...
Doing Time

Doing Time

Nova magazine – 1974 An article reporting on the problems faced by families who are left to cope when a member of the family goes to prison. I played with the geometry of the terraced street and turned it into a quadrangle in order to create the effect of an...
If At First You Don’t Succeed

If At First You Don’t Succeed

Nova magazine – 1973 Illustration for the article ‘If At First You Don’t Succeed’ by Judy Froshaug. A good example of the kind of issue led journalism that provided a challenge for the illustrator. The article about sub-fertility needed to be illustrated...
Not So Much Years to Your Life

Not So Much Years to Your Life

Nova magazine – 1975 ‘Not So Much Years to Your Life As Life to Your Years’ – an article by Wendy Cooper. The slices of time passing over a table laid for tea illustrate the sense of time flying near the end of a life. ← Previous Next...
Nobrow Press

Nobrow Press

Family Tree Commission from the Nobrow Press for a double page spread in Nobrow 3 magazine. April 2010. The theme was topsyturvy. I drew an anthropomorphic tree family and gave them a fretful part in the picture with humans, usually associated with the anxiety of...
Mariachi Riff Live

Mariachi Riff Live

Mariachi Riff Live (the offset litho) The black and white artwork was scanned and turned into full colour artwork by Dinah Lone who also developed the typography for the cover and design for insert and labels. Skeletons were removed in final artwork at the request of...
Mariachi Riff Live

Mariachi Riff Live

Mariachi Riff Live (the drawing) Ballpoint pen artwork for front and back cover 12″ vynil pressing of original 1970s recordings by Formerly Fat Harry. Shagrat Records. London 2008. Cover image ideas are based on a visual translation of a riff with repeating...
Mermaid

Mermaid

Commissioned drawing. Ballpoint pen. The client requested the story behind the image. I replied the picture was a pictorial poem to the sea. Traditionally, in old aquatic stories, mermaid’s are sirens luring sailors, and men in general, onto rocks of disaster. The...