St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch
After researching mid 20th Century travel poster design for this Digital Artist tutorial, I have found myself becoming increasingly obsessed with this style of artwork. This drawing is a stylised interpretation of St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch; I sacrificed a little accuracy in favour of a better composition, and focused on depicting the building with [...]
Midsea Books
Yesterday I received an intriguing parcel from Midsea Books in Malta. It contained three of the books I illustrated for them between October 2009 and July 2010, The Lost Sock – by Rita Borg – Nemnem and the Giant – by John Betts – and a collection of poems written by school children as part [...]
Vlad Dracul
Here’s a drawing I did of Vlad Dracul which is featured in the current issue of Ballad Of. This illustration reflects my love for all thing relating to the eccentric Wallachian prince, a topic I explored in a little more detail here.
Linocut print of London Skyline
Another new addition to my Etsy shop is this graphic illustration of the London Skyline, which is a linocut print. These prints need to be drawn and carved in reverse and my usual tecnique involves drawing out the design, scanning it and flipping it over in Photoshop. However, for these piece, I used an especially [...]
Watercolour Illustrations
These three pieces were created for The Dawn Herald, a stunningly absorbing children’s book which has just been released in Kindle format. My illustrations will accompany the forthcoming hardback version and I’m really excited to see how this publication will turn out. Designing the illustrations was made easy by the rich imagery in the text [...]
Abstract Map for Digital Artist
A recent tutorial for Digital Artist saw me creating an illustrated map of Europe which combined abstract shapes with small spot illustrations. I really loved working on this piece as the references I was asked to make use of (mid 20th Century travel posters) were exactly the sort of images that appeal to me most. [...]
Perspective Tutorial for Professional Artist Magazine
Below is one of the illustrations I produced to accompany a tutorial in perspective drawing for the excellent Professional Artist Magazine: And here are my spreads from the piece, which was laid out beautifully by their designer. The magazine had some fascinating articles in it, including a great piece about The Aesthetic Power of Geometric [...]
Dracula’s Castle
I tend to go a little blank when it comes to deciding what to draw for my website header. The current incarnation was decided upon after I downloaded a copy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula for my Kindle. I’m a huge fan of both Dracula and Carmilla – by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – although it [...]
Line Drawing of Split in Croatia
A few weeks ago I was in the mood to draw some rooftops so I decided to draw Split in Croatia. I’ve never been there, but it looks incredibly charming and has exactly the sort of landscape I love best, jumbly rooftops with a harbour in the background:
Typographic Linocut Map of Paris Arrondissements
Here’s the newest item to be added to my burgeoning Etsy shop – a linocut map of the Paris Arrondissements. I decided to make a second map after the linocut map of London proved to be fairly popular; I sell one or two a week and I was really happy that people seemed to like [...]
Illustrated Map for the Dawn Herald
I was recently commissioned by L.B Mara to illustrate a map and several watercolours for her absolutely excellent book, The Dawn Herald. Here is the drawing so far: The visual influences on this piece deserve a lengthy, detailed blog post all of their own, so I’ll refrain from going into too much detail right now, [...]
Two more pencil drawings of London
I find London a fascinating place to draw; the layout of the city means that you can view the same buildings in a variety of arrangements. These two drawings both show St.Paul’s Cathedral, but from opposite sides of the river and from different viewpoints. It makes drawing a definitive London skyline impossible; part of the [...]
Two New Paintings
I neglected to photograph these paintings at an early enough stage, but I doubt that doing so would have been of much interest. I mostly like to photograph work as I go to remind myself to reign it in towards the latter stages, where a desire to complete the piece can sometimes cause me to [...]
Cyprus Open Studios 2011
This weekend saw the opening few days of Cyprus’ annual Open Studios event, which takes place in the Paphos and Limassol districts. I’ve been the Open Studios designer for three years now and this year undertook a revamp of their guide book, transforming it into a fold out poster listing all the artists on a [...]
Illustrated Map of Mesogi
This is an older piece, but one I’m very fond of as it shows the village centre in Mesogi, where I have lived for two years now.
Where to purchase work
Just a quick update in response to a few enquiries I’ve had lately about buying prints. I have two shops, one selling digital prints at Society 6 and another selling linocuts on Etsy My biggest seller to date is this linocut map of London: If you’ve seen some work on this site that interests you [...]
Illustrated Map of Wokingham Town Centre
I actually created this piece a couple of years ago – it was a private commission and shows the main part of Wokingham town centre:
Bird’s Eye view of Brighton
This is a work in progress and shows Brighton town centre in 3/4 bird’s eye view. I also started to add some hand written street names, which I rather like the look of:
Pen and Ink Drawing of Torquay
I drew this in 2007, when we went to Torquay for a job interview. It was created using a fountain pen with waterbased ink on watercolour paper.
Panoramic View of London
360 degree panoramic illustration of the City of London. Pen and Ink on Paper. 2010
Watercolour Illustrated Map of Trafagar Square
This illustration shows Trafalgar Square in bird’s eye view and was made in 2010. Watercolour & Pen and Ink on Paper.
The Science of Style and Rokit
Being an experienced writer and blogger, Sabrina – of the idiosyncratic blog, The Science of Style – has explained this project, in which she undertook the job of curating the window display of Rokit. As you can see from the image below, Sabrina incorporated a mulitude of props into her display and one of these [...]
Kato Paphos
This sketch was drawn from a hillside in Pano Paphos, which overlooks much of Kato Paphos. I was quite shocked when I first saw the lower town from here as I had no idea of just how many flats there were in that section; when you view a city from ground view you get a [...]
Checkpoint Charlie
I found making this illustration of the Ledra Street border in Nicosia fascinating and a logical progression was to draw Checkpoint Charlie; the most popular crossing point of the Berlin Wall. The text in the bottom corner of the illustration is the Russian text from the sign on the checkpoint, which reads in English you [...]
