Art & Design

  • Lately I’ve been drawing much more, and writing a lot less. I’ve been preparing artwork for a colouring book, which…

  • About five years ago I did two risograph prints, one based on Diana Wynne Jones’ Fire and Hemlock, and the…

  • People who don’t make or read them much themselves sometimes ask me why I still make zines, even though the…

  • A few weeks ago, University College London held a light-themed street festival, with stalls run by the different university departments…

  • I made these posters to help a friend campaign to stop Waterloo Library being closed down and sold off (there…

  • When I was in Liechtenstein, I went to the Modern Art museum there. I was really impressed with the quality…

  • My university library had a massive stack of printing industry annuals from the 1890s through to the 20s. I always…

  • I forgot to post this before. My friend Tukru does a freebie Halloween themed zine every year for her zine…

  • Recently I went to the Malevich exhibition at the Tate Modern. I was vaguely aware of him as an avant-garde…

  • I’ve done some prints of this picture I drew of the Kerguëlen Islands off the coast of Antarctica. Nothing there…

  • I have kept scrapbooks like this since about 2002, sticking in things like ticket stubs, catalogues from art exhibitions, food…

  • I still have a couple of these 22×25 cm / 8.5×9.5″ risograph prints based on the Bacchae by Euripedes left.…

  • I went to the Tate Britain the other day. I went there planning to go to the Folk Art exhibition,…

  • DIY Space for London has now raised £13,000 but doesn’t have a building. I made these posters to help recruit…

  • Someone requested one of these risograph prints based on Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones (one of my all…

  • I finally got the printing samples back of the fabrics I designed. They are all available on Spoonflower, a print…

  • I recently made this poster for Pinup Payback, a feminist/anti-sexism organisation in Medway run by a friend. I was given…

  • For the past few months, I’ve been working with a group of students and an English teacher at a school…

  • Recently I was looking up something on a map, and my eyes were drawn to the Kerguelen Islands at the…

  • This is something I had to make in a short period of time at work recently. Invitation cards for an…

  • Last month I went to visit my mum in France. She lives just outside a small town called Lassay les…

  • So recently I’ve been spending a lot of frustrating time re-doing my website. I wanted it to work/look the same…

  • Last night I went with some friends to a life drawing class in the basement of a pub in Stoke…

  • Since just before Christmas, I have been doing a weekly animation workshop with kids at a school in North London,…

  • Puppetry is a big thing in the Czech Republic. As well as being the home of Jan Švankmajer and Jiří Trnka, there are…

  • While I was at my grandparent’s place, I scanned some books. Here’s the Golden Hands Book of Crafts from the…

  • My friend Mel put on a space-themed night at Power Lunches with some other students from her MA course. I…

  • Tomorrow at Power Lunches in Dalston, my friend Melanie is putting on an event with her compadres from the Art…

  • I should be doing more of this, but instead I’m working very long hours at the dayjob.  I’m either being…

  • The gallery has some kind of connection with a hotel, and they held another event there the following night, with…

  • A little while ago my friend Erika Pál had the animation she made for our MA show in Whirligig Cinema’s…

  • At the moment at the Wellcome Collection they have a free exhibition of outsider art from Japan. All of the…

  • Here’s some photos of a painting I like. It shows Henry VIII setting sail for the Field of the Cloth…

  • On Sunday I went to an exhibition about wool at Somerset House with Natalie. As well as the expected demonstrations…

  • Every so often I like to write on here about things I like, and why I like them. I’ve (finally)…

  • For professional colouring in only. It says it on the label, see. Don’t worry, I’ve got a licence now.