How's My Grilling?

Coming to a festival near you this summer: the Blas Burgerworks Street van! The St Ives-based burger restaurant, revered for its organic ingredients, locally-sourced produce, sustainable credentials (and most-importantly tasty burgers) is going on the road this summer. They asked me to put together a design for the 'Blasmobile', which was unveiled last weekend at the Golowan Festival, Penzance, and the Quay Fair day. The design was very kindly artworked onto the van by the good people at Signs Express, Exeter. All this thinking about Blas Burgers is making me hungry. Cornish Blue Cheeseburger please. I wonder if they'll deliver to Brighton...(picks up phone)...

In their own words: 3.5 tonnes of burger love coming your way! Follow Marie, Sally, Lisa and the team's antics here, here and here ! Phew!

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...

Doodle in front of the TV # 1

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...

Gone Fishing

What's new pussycat?

My panorama of Brighton made it onto the front of the Hanover Directory recently.

Random Numbers

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.

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!

I completed my very first (and potentially last) marathon yesterday! As a mild asthmatic I wheezed my way round the Brighton Marathon on Sunday morning, accompanied by my standard unavoidable Darth Vader sound effects for 26.2 miles. My speed eased off a little as I toured the quite frankly inspiring Shoreham Industrial Estate... A massive thanks to absolutely anyone who cheered, shouted, swore (or moaned about a road being closed) as I straggled past. It was absolutely awesome to not be crouching over a computer for a morning.

I did it to raise money for NASS (the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society). You can sponsor me here. A huge thanks to everyone who has already sponsored me for NASS. Long may their work continue.

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.

NASS Active Light

Recently designed a mini-publication for the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society, focussing on their fundraising accomplishments. I also created a logo for their new campaign of events taking place in June 2012 - Natter with NASS. I'm also running the Brighton Marathon for NASS next month, so expect to be inundated with sponsorship requests yeah?

Like A Lion

Here's an illustration of a Burmese Chinthe and landscape I did for a black and white advert for a geological report on Myanmar.

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!

Sale Away Sale Away Sale Away

First post of 2012 (whoops): Mabboo are having a January sale to celebrate Chinese New Year - and there are still a few days to catch a bamboo bargain - with selected Tees for a Tenner, and 25% off Polos. Head on over to the store to take a look.