This was created for an annual event at Keats House, Hampstead by poets Mike Sims and Julia Bird.
I imagined Walthamstow’s only cinema open and busy, at a time when it was boarded up and decaying. Happily, a local campaign means it was saved, and opened as a bar and arts venue. This image is available as a card at the shop 70 Hoe Street, E17.
‘News from Nowhere’ (1890) was a novel by William Morris. It imagines a better world, 100 years in the future. For the exhibition ‘News from Nowhere’ (2005) I imagined Walthamstow becoming a seaside resort, after sea levels rise due to global warming. Here, Blackhorse Road Tube Station is now a ferry stop.
‘The Smoker’ was a club and band at Cyberia, London’s first internet café. I worked as an illustrator for ‘Channel Cyberia’, an early internet magazine, with journalist Andrew Calcutt.
Bestowed Kitchen was a pop-up restaurant which showed my work, and for which I decorated the windows. This illustration is drawn from life.
This picture was created for ‘100x Madonna’ at the Crypt Gallery, St.Pancras Church, London, in September 2016.
This Madonna appeared on Palmerston Road, London when a small housing estate was completed. It has been stolen twice, and replaced twice. The Madonna often has flowers and other offerings around her feet.
The poster for ‘Happy Birthday Edward Lear’ for the 200th anniversary of Lear’s birth, 2012. With Andrew Baker, I curated an exhibition featuring 50 illustrators. Exhibitors included Glen Baxter, Peter Blegvad and Peter Bailey. We exhibited at The Poetry Society, Covent Garden, Solent University, Southampton, and the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.
Every two years Waltham Forest hosts an Art Trail, with a vast range of events taking place over two weeks in June. This is the cover for 2015. I tried to capture the buzz of people everywhere, all carrying the guide.
A flyer for an open air showing of a great film – excellent! I especially enjoyed drawing Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln.
A line drawing I used as a guide for freehand paintings on the window of pop-up restaurant “Bestowed Kitchen,’ in London.
A flyer for an outdoor showing of the film ‘School of Rock’.
Every June a music festival is held in Stoneydown Park, London. The deer are symbols in Waltham Forest’s emblem.
The Muckenthaler House was built in 1924, in Fullerton, California. It was donated as a cultural centre in 1965. To celebrate its 50th anniversary I added a 60’s style sky behind the building.
For BBC Music Magazine
The card I created for Christmas 2018, to celebrate moving back to Edinburgh. On the right is Billy, our staffie from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.
A banner for Appetite Food Market, showcasing independent East London food producers and sellers at Lloyd Park’s regular ‘garden party’.
This banner celebrates Fellowship Island, an feature in the Barbican Arts Centre sponsored garden party that takes place in Lloyd Park, London, each July. Fellowship Island promotes community and sustainability.
This illustration is for a poetry collection on the theme ‘bestow’ (Paekakariki Press, 2012).
A poster for a food bank, for use at drop-off points for donations.
An illustration of the noise and bustle of a Victorian city street. Created for a London Transport Museum competition on the theme ‘sound in the city’.
The December cover for a local events magazine. The baubles illustrate events that took place in Waltham Forest in the previous twelve months.
A Christmas card showing one of my favourite moments of the festive season – taking home the tree.
