Work in Development part 2

I've been working on a new project recently illustrating some of my favourite poems, my recent one has been about E. E. Cumming's "it is moments after I have dreamed". Here are a few progress pictures for you, just trying to get the atmosphere right. Hopefully have a Linocut done in a day or so and then I'll start work on John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale" cos you cant go wrong with a few of the classics.

Work in development part 1

Linocuts on the way - portraits on two of my favourite female authors, Angela Carter (left) and Margaret Atwood (right). I'll print these some time over the next month when I have more lino's to print at the studio. Can't wait till I have a printing press of my own.

Some Current work

A little illustration montage about not being allowed to dance in night clubs in Japan. Apparently it is illegal to let people dance in your nightclub in japan without strict regulations and checks by police. This ones coming out soon more info about it later.

A Series of Author Portraits in Lino - Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley is probably my favourite of my portraits so far, as was his book Brave New World when I was about 15. After just reading 1984 and Clockwork Orange this was a great addition to my dystopian phase. The ending made me absolutely speechless, a very poignant book and relevant even though it was written for a different era. Planning on adding Angela Carter to the mix next, my favourite of all authors.

A Series of Author Portraits in Lino - Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda went a lot better than my Kurt Vonnegut, didn't know whether the heavy shadow would work that well but I quite like it now. Maybe not as soft as it should be for Neruda but it reminds me of this poem of his:


Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

A Series of Author Portraits in Lino - Kurt Vonnegut

A start at looking at some of my favourite authors in Linocut. Here is Kurt Vonnegut author of Slaughterhouse 5, one of my favourite books in college. However, I'm not incredibly happy about how it came out, especially the hair. Le sigh, it was only to get me back in the swing of things anyway.

Experimental Lino

Some experimental linocuts - A start in some collaborative work with David Foldvari.