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  • I was supposed to be in Austria right now running school workshops, but obviously that’s not happening. Like many other…

  • Multiple people have asked me for a tutorial of how I do colour in Photoshop. A lot of people think…

  • Here is another scan of a vintage book I have had since I was a child. This is a collection…

  • Around this time of year on the Solstice there are two things I like to do as a personal tradition-…

  • Scanning more vintage books – this time a history of costume book that my mum won as a school prize…

  • I wrote a few of these music basics guides to use in a promo zine I used to make with…

  • I found this book in a charity shop. It’s a practical guide to alternative living in London from 1969/70 covering…

  • Here are some scans from a 1970s craft book I got from my grandparents’ house.

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  • When clearing out my grandparents’ house a couple of years ago I found seven packets of these 60s tourist slides…

  • I got this late 70s/early 80s book from a charity shop a while ago. A lot of families in the…

  • Shortly before I left London a couple of years ago I got a roll of the Lomochrome Purple film, a…

  • In which I explore an abandoned boarding school in 2012 while going through some very hard times.

  • A couple of months ago I adopted a young cat from the local animal shelter. The profile said he was playful…

  • Hello from the southern hemisphere. Here’s some new press shots of my friends’ band Bismuth I took a few weeks…

  • On my way back from the Tyrol, I stayed in Munich en route to the airport, and visited the Dachau…

  • A short train ride or couple of miles walk outside Kitzbühel is the Schwartzsee (“black lake”). It’s full of minerals…

  • In July I went to Kitzbühel in Austria for work. I was there to run a workshop in the local…

  • So here’s the posters I designed for two gigs I’m helping to put on- one in London, the other in…

  • Margate is currently hosting a variety of art events related to T.S.Eliot (who wrote the Wasteland here almost a century…

  • Here’s some photographs I took of my friends’ band Very Friendly. For a while we had intended to take some…

  • Here’s a gig poster I drew recently. I was given free reign to do whatever I wanted, and it turns…

  • So here’s a new illustration I did. It’s actually based on a drawing I did when I was 17 that…

  • I spent most of August in Germany, teaching some school workshops and going to Documenta art fair along the way.…

  • I made this playlist a while back, and the post has been languishing in the drafts for a while, so…

  • Here’s some more old sketchbook pages I scanned, this time from the British Museum.

  • A couple of years ago my friend Steve Larder’s band Moloch did a split LP and tour with American grindcore…

  • I had to put a Hüsker Dü song in this list, as they are one of my all-time favourite bands,…

  • And to round off my stuff from Croatia, here’s some sketchbook notes from Zadar museum and Trogir. Hobotnica (pronounced hobotnitsa)…

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