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...
Our Technicolor Dream

Our Technicolor Dream

Our Technicolor Dream (the drawing) Ballpoint pen artwork for a silkscreen poster promoting a one day psychedelic event at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. April 2007. 734mm x 425mm. I recieved the commission because of my involvement in the design of the...
Liberty – Winter Dreams of Spring

Liberty – Winter Dreams of Spring

Textile design commissioned by Liberty Department Store, London for their 2009 Winter collection. Ballpoint pen drawing 580mm x 580mm Winter Dreams of Spring On a ceiling of night pattern pirouette’s Around the symbolic hub of Spring and Winter Angels spin lines that...