Sneak Peek - Inkygoodness PLAY

Filling in the pencil details on 'Ex Tennis Pro', one of the pieces I will have on show at East Gallery. I could continue non-stop telling stories via crazy oil pastel paintings...
Especially like in the case of my bigger piece, 'Texas Hold'em', which is drawn on a 61x55cm rough wooden board. It centers around three down on luck poker players - the Crab Shack waitress, a single mum in a log lady cardigan and a trucker whose past I feel particularly sorry for...maybe you can figure out their stories, hopes or dreams by looking at the details that sort of flow in and out of the scene like a road map of their lives.

details of Texas Hold'em

My Lost in the Woods themed button badges that will be on sale (along with some of my prints) at the show when the shop is open!
I have saved one with the trout and a Log Lady one for myself, as these are one offs and no set is the same.

The exhibition will run until September 12, East Gallery 214 Brick Lane

So, come and play:

Locals/Only - London

Society 6 - Locals/Only collaboration
The strange place that I've been calling home for six years now - London!
Available as a print (+more) at Society6.

Button Badges + Inkygoodness Show

some of these badges and a few of my prints will be on sale at the Inkygoodness PLAY exhibition,
3.-12.9. East Gallery, 216 Brick Lane, where I will also have some artwork on show.

Postcards to Alphaville - Chinatown

Jack Nicholson as JJ Gittes in Chinatown, my contribution to Postcards to Alphaville, which is a project featuring illustrations of film characters - and I'm glad I could choose this one as I like the film and of course, the setting! Check out more contributions by film character here, there's a few more Jack Nicholsons on there!

Hey Poppytalk!

My calender and some of my patterns made it onto the great Poppytalk blog. Check it out (if you haven't already), it's a Vancouver-based design blog full of inspiration and beautiful/decayed/handmade stuff. Thanks to Jan at Poppytalk!

Illustration Friday - Star gazing

troubled kid sees shooting star

Knick Knack clip

There's an animation of Knick Knack Paddy Whack on Barefoot Books's facebook site...it's quite funny to see my characters moving and playing their instruments!

Trailer Park Pattern

I like the idea of non-beautiful stuff on decorative items.
I've always liked traditional or folk art pottery and tapestry and I like what Grayson Perry does to both: vases / tapestry.

Paradise ScrapYard

the first testing part of some bigger scale oil pastel 'life/story maps' I'm planning...

Creative Boom

Creative Boom has posted a little feature about my work on their site, read it here or click picture above.

Red Hair Girl

recent character work, a girl who is a princess but not really into princess-y stuff!

Broken keyboard, Monkey Boy, Robin Hood and a Tortoise...

just a few of the many spot illustrations I did for A+C Black.