woop woop! I'm buy of the day!!!

LOOK!
I'm buy of the day in the Guardian's Life & Style... hurray! Thanks Howkapow!

look what I did yesterday

Look what I did yesterday... a little bit of interior styling for a photoshoot!

I've been meaning to do this for ages, but was kicked up the bum a bit by the utterly wonderful HOWKAPOW (who are selling a selection of my prints) to get some lifestyle shoots of my prints for their website but also for them to use for PR.

So I booked my lovely and very talented pal James Barke to come over and take some photos.  I have to say I loved being art director and just knowing that he would take great shots - which I'm sure you will agree he has... if you scroll to the end of the pictures - you will see a photographers secret in action!!!!...

The secret to not having reflections showing in the print of my 'A-Z of Lesser Known Animals' poster  - James & Felix hide behind a black sheet- with a hole cut in for the camera! Low tech but blummin brilliant!!

Bristol University book

A year or so ago - I did some work for the University of Bristol. I helped create an activity book which was a questionnaire for young people asking them about their experience of kinship care (being looked after by a member of their family, but not their mum or dad).

Last month I finished designing and illustrating the report. Its a big piece of government research and it is fascinating.

I just got it back from the printers... its a big-fat-delicious-smelling-silky-book (I have a bit of a thing for new print!!) It was a great project to work on & I am really pleased with how it looks. I just hope that when they present the findings to government next week it has an impact and systems are put into to place to look after this over-looked portion of children and their carers.

do you live in a house like this?

I was recently commissioned by the Bedminster energy group to draw some pictures of a variety of different types of homes- so as to help people know how to insulate their particular type of home. Maybe not everyones idea of highbrow literature, but a good old bit of public broadcasting non the less! I however loved the wizzy wizziness of being able to use googlemaps' live view thing to look at actual houses in South bristol to be able to draw from- so I had a tour of bedminster, ashton & Southville from the comfort of my studio- ahhhh technology!






are you a ashton semi?

a bedminster terrace?

or a southville edwardian number?

for more actual info about insulating your home check our the website & look out for new leaflets with my wee pictures on them, all coming out soon.

LOVE is in the post

Its nearly valentines day, so I thought I'd...

a) show you my card valentine's card portfolio

and

b) offer to be your cupid!

We all know how glorious it is to receive post, particularly a love letter or a lovely letter. Well you can choose a card from my little portfolio here, and for just £2.60, I will post your card to your loved one!*


I can either post it to you, so you can fill in the card and all that, or if you'd like me to be be the cupid pigeon, then email/ Facebook your message,  the address of who it is to and I'll do the rest!

You must get orders to be next tuesday 12th, for me to get it in the post in time.

So who do you love? Which card says it best?

* you can do a bank transfer or a paypal thingy!

beat the blues

Beat the blues : a new exhibition by Drawn in Bristol, at St Georges's Bristol, featuring Bristol's Finest Illustrators! Come on down to the preview tomorrow Friday 18th from 6pm

This is a terrible photo of my image for the exhibition, which is an illustration of the Joni Mitchell song 'Blue'... come and have a look

Round of the year...

I don't know about you, but I am finding this year very hard to 'start!'...so much so I am thinking of adopting chinese new year on 10th feb, to give me another month to sort myself out! 

As a kind of life admin/ Cathartic excersise I thought I'd do a little round of last year in pictures...so here goes...

Book club activity sheets for nearly schoolers... (my small world)          

Album artwork... (Gavin Osborn)

posters....

flyers... (no.1 harbourside)

t-shirts ... (mild west heroes)

bicycles... (park that bike)

postboxes... (kilter theatre)

work for me ...

work for others...

pop ups & markets... (made in bristol)

... and a little girl!