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Hark it be 'ere!
My new zine, "looking forward to the past" looking at 8000 years of a single point of land as it changes, grows and fades.

Should be available in some local bath art based stores, wherever you can find me, and from my onli
Got to go to: From Darkness into Light at Salisbury cathedral last night. Complete magic, two thousand people clustered are around a single candle casting light into the whole cathedral, transported back in time hundreds of years together. Slowly lig
Working on a very little zine, nearly done. Should be riso printed soonTM, documentung 8000 years of one spot of land. 

Few random bits of wip tone comps, it's a lot wider than this, Instagram doesn't like wide things. 

#illustration #zine
Some ad-hoc drawings from mushroom foraging with @mynameguy1 

Many mushrooms found and consumed. 

#mushroom #mushroomforaging #illustration
Maen Ha Golow, is coming up to Bath, opening evening on Thursday the 9th of October, 5-8pm. open till the 24th! at the Michael Pennie gallery in Bath Spa university. 

Produced in response to two residencies in the Porthleven lifeboat house. the show
The shows over, thank you all who came and for those who couldn't there's some pics of it. Everyone in Thai exhibition was monumental and well worth checking out. (There's a website somewhere) 

It's all come down to much sadness at the closing of a
The show is now up till the 10th of sept. (Bathspa locksbrook campus 10-6 everyday)

Thank you to all who came to the private view on Friday. And anyone still to come. I might be seen wandering around invigilating or going into hibernation somewhere
First proof in of Vol: I of Floodlines. 
I've been working on this for some time, full run has gone to print so should be out and about soonTM
Opening night of the porthleven prize. "Maen ha Golau"

165 lanterns/lives standing vigil all night, shards from womb of the harbour, the catch on the commons, sounds of the stones and that of the land, the phone ringing off the hook, and t
Part one of the show will running in Cornwall from this weekend in Porthleven, and, should you manage to get there, you will find my work in the lime kiln. No it’s not visual it’s a soundscape/poem – "Ten Chains Down" conj
I am excited part of a show in Porthleven "MAEN HA GOLOW" (Stones and Light) produced in response to a month in Porthleven across two artist residencies. Its been an honour to work alongside so many fantastic creatives. 

The show is on fro
Dark tunnels belie their hidden secrets, old, cold and forgotten.
up all night between heatwaves, sometimes narrative scenes emerge outside their little frames without you realising it. 

not the way you intended but you have to let them unfold, and trust your hands know better than your head. 

This one is a bit o
Coming to the end of the Porthleven residency, working with some of the most wonderful artists, dancers, writers, musicians, curators and poets. The most raw collaborative creative experiences of my life. Working out of the old lifeboat house in Port
Trapped in the cold... watching... waiting... 

#illustration #paint #overprinting #ink #collage #horror #ghoststories #dark #ghost #bookcover
Illustrating a ghost stories; a cold and isolated tale. Capturing the fear. 

#illustration #paint #ink #collage #horror #ghoststories #dark
Deeper still... To where the earth cracks wide. 

#ink #illustration #pen #negativespace #wip
Slowly chugging along, I feel like this robot, a bit cronky with tea in hand about to start another day. 

new projects on the horizon...

sketch from the back of my head
#drawing #sketches #robot #ilustration