Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas everyone! Have a good one.

The Hardy Tree

This year after a long break I started making music again - though I'm not a musician by any stretch of the imagination. Sounds are gathered from various places, chopped up looped and rearranged on my computer, tunes picked out with one figure on a tiny keyboard.

I've started a little CD label called Clay Pipe Music, firstly to put out my CD and next year to put out music by other people. I see it being somewhere between a record label and an artist book publisher - everything hand made/printed and designed by me as best I can.

The CD is called The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath by The Hardy Tree.

You can buy it here: www.claypipemusic.co.uk

Pop Ups

Just recently published by Walker in the UK, and Candlewick in the USA is 'Pop-Up -Everything you Need to Create Your Own Pop-Up Book', that I illustrated. It basically gives you all you need to make four pop-ups and learn the art of paper engineering as you do it. The book is large with lots of fold outs, so it was difficult to photograph. You can buy both the US and UK versions on Amazon

The Association of Illustrators awards 2010

Picking up my bronze award in the New Media catagory for the work I did on the BBC Primary History wesbite.

With Steve May another Arena artist who won the Gold.

My page in the Images 34 book.
Many thanks to Caroline at Arena for taking these pictures!

HMS Belfast

A poster I recently completed for HMS Belfast, have a look at Arena's Blog for a break down on the commissioning process including sketches and examples of work in progress. If anyone spots this on The Tube over the summer can you let me know!

Cycling in London Competition

This was my entry into 'The Cycling in London Competition' run by Transport for London and The Association of Illustrations, mine was one of the 50 chosen from over 1000 entries to be displayed at the London Transport Museum, pictures from the opening night are over at my agents Arenas blog.

More Monotone

Below are some more experiments with limited colour ways and type.

Finley

Images from an idea for a children's picture book that I will probably take in a different direction now, but I thought it would be worth posting them here.

Gobal Contexts

Sorry about the poor scans, my work has recently been featured in book called 'Global Contexts' by Mark Wigan, I've been following Marks work since the 80s when I remember his paintings on the walls of Kensington Market, and the Scala Cinema, so I was really happy to have my work in this book along with some other really great illustrators. It is published by AVA and should be in book shops now.