Spring is coming I’m sure, on summer afternoons in the studio I have to pull the blinds down on some of the windows because the sun shines too brightly onto the big desk, recently I’ve been balancing a few paper and lazercut thingies on the window frames and was surprised at how nice they looked […]
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It’s always a day of major excitement when a delivery arrives from the lazercutters ! Seeing them all piled up on top of each creating deep canyons is one of the few brief moments when I see my work as ‘sculpture’.
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My shop Ryantown in London’s Columbia Rd has got a blog that I have neglected to keep updated for a while now….but all this is going to change !! Cynthia, who runs the shop is going to take over the Blog from now on and I am sure it is going to a constant delight […]
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I work everyday at this big desk and I thought it might be a good idea to send my trust assistant Hazel up a very high step ladder to take a snap of the entire thing from above. It’s not as exciting an image I thought it might be but it was a pretty impressive […]
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I am a bit in love with the town of Rye in Sussex, so when I was invited by a magazine to create a poster a la homage to the beautiful posters advertising seaside towns produced by British Railway Companies in the 30s, 40s and 50s Rye was always going to be my town of […]
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This funny little drawing hangs in my living room, it doesn’t have a title and is one of many thousands of pencil studies Stanley Spencer must have made in his incredibly productive life. Lots of people see the womans figure as an owl ! The fact that she is headless and armless doesn’t help though […]
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This small pen and ink drawing by the italian sounding english illustrator Edward Ardizzone hangs on the wall to the left of the TV at home and I often find my gaze being drawn away from the box to this little picture. I like pictures that seem to hold a hidden story, what is this […]
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