Interview for Delayed Gratification

Thanks to Delayed Gratification who have published an interview with me on their blog, read it here.

Delayed Gratification

The most recent issue of Delayed Gratification with my illustrations for an article on the origins of Brazilian football and it's creator Charles Miller. Beautiful cover by Ai Wei Wei along with a great interview inside.

Structo issue 12

My illustrated issue of Structo Magazine with front cover end pages and two selected pieces on Jean Rhys and Margaret Atwood illustrated by moi. I love Structo, they always have the most beautifully written stuff to go along with my cup of coffee.

New work Reflections

Originally made for Structo's front cover but printed more because I wanted to after Structo went with a different version. May need to scan this in to get a proper likeness of the colours. My ideas behind this 

image was made to show reflections of the natural world in water with foliage floating on the rippled surface obscuring your vision to the depths.

Prints for Structo's upcoming issue

Here are my prints for Structo's next issue. The first is the cover, a mirrored image representing the natural world set askew. 

The second image is a portrait of Jean Rhys, one of the most important female writers in the last century, presumed dead during the second world war by the public when she was actually residing in Cornwall. She was accused of impersonating herself by her neighbour, when she told the BBC she was in fact still alive and said "It’s a weird feeling being told you are impersonating yourself. Rather nightmarish. You think: perhaps I am!”. For this piece I drew a lot of inspiration from Edvard Munch's Madonna often described as look deathlike whilst having a sensual and dangerous attitude to it, an impression I got from Jean Rhys in the research I did on her.

The third image is a portrait of Margret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist and one of my favourite authors. Best know for her books The Handmaid's tale and Cat's Eye. This portrait goes along with an interview in Structo next issue. In this interview she talks of a great many things but what struck me most was the idea that writing is often like ripples in water. She explains ideas and themes echo in writing like ripples, in novels the ripples are spaced far apart through chapters but in poetry they are much closer together on every other line. I have incorporated these ripples into the background of the piece.

 

Margaret Atwood

Have a butchers at the only good drawing I was able to make of Margaret Atwood for Structo's interview with her in their next issue. Man is she a hard woman to draw. Still love her though.

Delayed Gratification Issue 14

Here's the newest issue of Delayed Gratification with some illustrations by yours truly, this was a slightly different style for me but I love how they've come out, and the article couldn't be a stranger story! DG always have the most fascinating journalism I have to say.