My Brand New Website

I've got a brand new website! Check it out here. There's lots of new work, and more of my T-shirts, murals and screen prints. A huge thanks Shaun at Pictures & Writing for building the site to my specifications and designs, and improvements here and there!

Having a brand new site with an in-built blog means that this ol' thing of a blog will be coming to a close. But don't worry - I'll keep it up so as you still have something to look at whilst you're procrastinating at work - wouldn't want to deprive you of your lunchtime guffaws. Get your new fix here.

Mabboo Mural

Here is the live art I created at the ECO Pop Up Shop at the weekend. The ECO team had a fun Saturday night launch party and needed some art for their walls. The shop is located on the top floor of The Galleries shopping centre, Bristol, and features Mabboo Bamboo T-shirts and products, and Aymo shoes and satchels. The mural features some Chinese, a  lucky cat, some bamboo, clouds, a sunburst, hot air balloons, the Clifton suspension bridge, and the SS Great Britain. If you're in Bristol go take a look! Thans to Ed and the Aymo team, (and special thanks to Sam for his help: his filling in was exemplary!).

Live Art @ ECO Pop Up Shop

I'm doing some live art at the new ECO pop up shop in The Galleries shopping centre in Bristol on Saturday 1 December from 5pm. The new ECO store features Mabboo & Aymo products - the perfect alternative...sustainable...eco-friendly...creative...organic presents for Christmas (nearly ran out of steam there). Come for the art...stay for the shoes, satchels, Tees and hoodies. Upstairs by Argos. Grab me a catalogue yeah?

Movember portraits

Here are some of the portraits I've been doing to raise money for bloke cancer charities as part of Movember over at Gallery of Mo. There's still time to get your portrait done in exchange for a donation. Here's my page.

Another mural

Recently did another mural (I love the smell of emulsion FYI). Here's a couple of quick snaps - the more intelligent of you may very well see a theme emerging. Answers on a postcard please. Will post some better photos soon. Promise.

Gallery of MOvember

I'm one of about 100 artists taking part in the Gallery of Mo this year, an artist project running alongside the regular moustache-growing-competition-for-charity

We'll be drawing portraits of people, and adding facial hair where necessary, in return for donations to the related charities. It is my way of being able to raise charity without having to endure hormone replacement therapy to grow something that looks anything more than mere dirt along my top lip within 28 days.

So if you want to be drawn "be'tached" you know where to come. Check out my artist page here, and the other participating artists here.

Buy Buy Buy

We've come to the last week of the Seaside Pop Up Shop in Rottingdean - come see our screenprints, T-shirts, peep boards, jewellery, furniture, greetings cards, hankerchiefs, tote bags, frames and more...before we close at 6pm on Sunday.

hellohead at Cargo

The hellohead exhibition is taking place at Cargo on the evening of Wednesday 22 August. You can see a portrait of me at my most crazy, and my portrait of Simon Tozer. Hope to see you there!

Create in Brighton

Was shortlisted and went on to win the Create in Brighton imagery competition recently, run by Frank PR, Drink In Brighton and sponsored by Tiger Beer. It was a complete surprise after seeing the high standard of work, especially in photography and illustration. A massive thanks to everyone who voted for the work on Facebook, and to the judges Lomokev, Lawrence Zeegen and Sarah Arnett. Hopefully it returns again next year!

Watership High

Following on from the Blas panorama, I recently painted a mural in a toddler's bedroom, with a lot of help from The Alice! Here's some shots of the woodland scene that covered the two bright yellow walls, including: hedgehogs, worms, mushrooms, bunting, spiders, squirrels, diggers, clouds, planes, hot air balloons, kites, trees grass and birds ... phew! The birds are very happy - not angry FYI.

Meow Meow 'Like' Meow

My illustration on the theme of Discovery in Brighton has made the shortlist of 30 semi-finalists in the Create In Brighton image competition. The top ten pieces will go through to the grand final, a process I very much hope includes Richard O'Brien shouting "Start the fans please!", and small pieces of bacofoil.

You can vote for my entry by 'like'-ing it on Facebook here! All votes will be entered into a prize draw to win lots of prizes including £100 of Urban Outfitters vouchers, £100 of Office vouchers, and crates of Tiger Beer. Thanks for your help!

Stop!

My Stop Thinking In Pixels And Vectors screen-printed poster (VERY cryptic unrelated name obviously) was featured in some gallery of artists in a youth enterprise magazine . Down with the kids!

Cheeky Monkeys

Here's my window painting for Cheeky Monkeys toy shop in Rottingdean. Marco and I made a big thought bubble, seascape and headlines to showcase the store's upcoming Lego building competition. Sorry for the dodgy pics - the sun decided to make a welcome appearance from over the sea. You can read about Marco's Lego exploits here and buy Cheeky Monkeys' wares here.

Blas Burgerworks Mural

Here's some haphazard pics of our recent mural for Blas Burgerworks, St Ives. It was their 5th birthday this week so we went down to decorate one of their walls live at their very over-subscribed birthday party. As well as their slogan, logo, a whole load of clouds, a burger (NOT to scale), their shopfront and a picturesque view of St Ives bay we also managed to squeeze in a couple of local monuments, the sun, a tree and some blackboard paint speech bubbles for some happy customer comments.

A humongous big thanks to Alice for motivation and awesome painting within the lines (a LOT better than mine!), and to Marie, Sal & Lisa at Blas for all the fab food (& beer!). Like them on Facebook, and hit see some more to literally see some more...

Modern Art is AWESOME #2: Coca Cola

Had great fun drawing our favourite products at the (potentially-lawsuit-inducingly-named) Ghost World at Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art's Children's Art Centre.

Modern Art is AWESOME

No - not the Crystal Maze but some modern art in Brisbane. Brook Andrew's "The Cell" at the Institute of Modern Art to be precise. Looks more like the futuristic zone to me too...

Spot the Artwork

Here's a few shots of the Spot the Tiger exhibition I took part in a few weeks ago. Cheers to Mike. Push the button for more photos.

Mail from Canada

Received some of the brochures for Wanderings - an exhibition I has some work in - that took place at Hot Yoga on 20th in Saskatoon, Canada. The package included some other goodies too - in return for a screen-print. Thanks very much to Stef!

Who's in charge?

My work is part of the exhibition "Who's in charge?" put on by Spot The Tiger, taking place at the Dreamspace Gallery as of next week. Private view's on Monday night. I'll be at the bar popping the bottles.

Glug Glug Glug

I'm doing some live illustration at a Glug / D&AD Student Awards after-party this coming Tuesday. Picture from the D&AD site. More info here, and you can buy tickets via the Meetup page here. You might see some pictures on here ... depending on how it turns out. Watch this space...