Category / Drawings and print
I like to draw things. Here are some drawings that lurk inside my sketchbooks and experiments in print that I’ve made over the years
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They Lay Beneath
Ew. Printed animations I made whilst in residence at Mission Grafica.
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Gotta hand it to you
I am applying for some bits and bobs for next year (my current position ends in December -more about that soon). Anyway, I found this. A print I made in MARCH 2013. I made it when I got back from an India trip as a thank you card for the people I stayed with. My…
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More stamps!
I’ve become somewhat obsessed with carving and printing erasers. I may have to stamp this habit out! Not much space for letter writing. oops! And I finally got round to making US business cards -I’d left some of the screen printed sheets from the batch I made in December 2012 blank, in case my details…
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A skip hop and a jump…
…across the wee Atlantic pond and I arrived in SAN FRANCISCO! Yes, it is official, today we signed a lease for an apartment: we have moved to the hilly city. So far so brilliantly amazingly vibrant and awesome! Last night we tapped our toes to the gypsy-jazzy-swinging music of Gaucho. They have been playing every…
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Sign Poetry
Whilst we are on the subject of drawing; I met a fascinating artist the other week at the RWA Drawn exhibition. Her name is Kyra Pollitt. Kyra is an artist and sign language interpreter, and she is currently researching at the University of Bristol into ways of representing sign poetry through mark-making. She was hosting a sign…
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Some sketches with my sister
A very nice time was had in Madrid with my sister. We ate in many bars and sat in a nice park and sewed blossom on a tree on a sunny spring day.
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Dibujo Madrid
Every Tuesday for the past 3 years a group of artists have been curating Dibujo Madrid, an awesome performance-illustration platform in Lavapies, Madrid. The event is simple, take a life drawing class, and instead of drawing still models in the nod, draw performance artists making a weird and wonderful show for 2 hours. It’s based…
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Canteen Zebras
Very much enjoyed making this shadowy-musicy-zebrary illustration for the Canteen. I wanted to create a fun may-time party-time colourful vibe, as supposedly spring is upon us (?). It looks like there’s some good music gwanon too!