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.

Wedding Crashers

Following on from some other wedding invitations I've done (for Tom & Alex and Avenue Litho) here are some wedding invitations I designed for some good friends of mine. Despite this - they still let me attend, and even be...an usher. I shirked most of my responsibilities you'll be pleased to hear.

The invitations were printed by the nice people at Stampa Brighton. Here's the table plans I designed too, in a suitcase!

If you're an advanced stalker you can lurk at some more pictures of the day, including signs and table settings, photographed by the awesome official photographer Emma Boileau here. Congrats to Pete & Nikki!

Sunday Express S Magazine

I did another illustration to accompany a fiction piece in the Sunday Express S Magazine at the weekend.

We've all been in this situation right? Packed train, bag-on-seat politics, some wally on their phone etc... you can read the full article here.

Natter with NASS

Saw my "Natter with NASS" logo in one of their mailouts the other day.

Sunday Express Fiction Piece

Here's an illustration I did for Sunday Express' S Mag, accompanying a fiction piece about a flood. You can check it out online here.

The Sunday Express

Here is an illustration I created for a fiction piece in the Sunday Express' S Magazine last weekend.

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.

Eye Candy Festival

Here's my contribution to the 12 x 12 project for the Eye Candy Festival of visual culture in Birmingham. Different artists and illustrators from around the country were given a record sleeve to customise, based on an album cover by a Birmingham musician or band.

I chose Broadcast's Tender Buttons, featuring the late great Trish Keenan on the front. They're all being auctioned to raise money for charity Oxjam Brum, and are on display in Le Truc, Birmingham.

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.

Vanity Project...?

Here's a poster I did for a group of DJs calling themselves "The Gentlemens Vanity Project" - with blank spaces for them to scrawl the line-up and venue of their next exciting instalment... Hopefully the Preacherman makes an appearance.

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!

hellohead

Really enjoyed getting involved in hellohead earlier this year. Illustrators from across the UK have been paired up to draw one another, with an auction at the end to raise money for the National Autistic Society. See my portrait of Simon Tozer, and Simon Tozer's portrait of me on the hellohead site

Phoenix Magazine

Here's an illustration I did for Phoenix Magazine this month, about eccentric British characters...in their underwear. You had to be there...

Halsetown Inn Mural # 2

Here's a much larger mural I did in the dining room of the Halsetown Inn. Somewhat eclipsed by the massive pews, but hey they're essential for the hundreds of people that'll be in to try Chef Baxter and the crew's new menu and wine list! So the new management love all the appaloosa horses in the surrounding fields, so they had to make an appearance, along with their new slogan and the area's beautiful scenery. 

This horse is small:

This horse is far away: 

 Here's the text for those of you who don't want to strain your eyes too much:

 Here's a cloud coming off the Atlantic:

 And here's one in daylight for you non-vampires:

Halsetown Inn Mural # 1

 

Here's some shots of a mural I did for the Halsetown Inn, a pub in Halsetown, just inland from St Ives, Cornwall. It has just been taken over by the Blas Burgerworks crew. This painting is in the hallway of the pub, greeting all the tourists and locals alike with a scene from the surrounding countryside...

Notorious BIG

I now have a portfolio on Brighton Illustrators Group. Take a look around the newly-redesigned site -  there is a wide variety of cracking work on there by lots of different Brighton-based Illustrators.

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.

Bargain Basement

Got sent this pic the other day by a friend - a whole pile of a series of book covers I'd designed for Harper Collins. He called it a shrine to my work - I'm not so sure...you know its all over when there aren't one but two special offer stickers on each and every copy!