Hiya. The big news since I was last here is that after a marginally less than flawless application and interview process I got into MA Visual Communication at the RCA! The initial jackpot-winning rus...
Im featured as one of three of Scotlands finest illustrators in the new issue of satisfyingly glossy Homes & Interiors Scotland. Theres loads of other rad stuff in it too, including a feature about t...
Ive had a kinda wordy (by wordy I obv mean involving more than one paragraph and a lower ratio of acronyms to legit words than Im generally comfortable with) post in my drafts for a while now and its...
1 My illustration, ~Art~, in the first issue of LIMNER, brainchild of PETE, which should be available to buy from the site soon.2 Artwork for RICKYs sublime tape, available HERE.3 A very stunning and...
I drew on these stickers for a project Craig at Birminghams SIX EIGHT KAFE came up with, involving illustrators and designers creating self-promotional labels to spice up the cafes takeaway coffee cu...
I have two pieces (below) in the Scottish Drawing Competition exhibition at Paisley Museum (above) right now. You should read about the PAISLEY WITCHES. Christian Shaw is a cool name for a 17th centu...
Im wary of posting too much work in progress because I dont wanna be one of THOSE internet ppl who continually allude to things that never materialise (hiya 28 DRAWINGS LATER) but heres some anyway.A...
SALE SALE SALE SALE SALEThese giclée prints, taken from the original mixed media collages, have been professionally printed in limited editions of 30 on A3 (297 x 420mm including white border) Hahnem...
Sydenham Hill, LondonEXTERNAL VERITIES: PART 5THE VALUE OF DIVERSITYAre these myriad expressions of individual taste a good thing? Le Corbusier (1963) would not have thought so. He advocates ‘uniform...
Whitecraigs Nights acrylics, chalk, pencil and paper
A TITLE LOLif i do this what happens
After a recent excursion to the now crumbling and spooky Gillespie Kidd & Coia ST PETERS SEMINARY, I was inspired to check out some churches. Im an atheist natch but one of the things I miss about hi...
Sydenham Hill, LondonTHE CONSERVATIVE APPROACHIn recent decades, numerous books have appeared aimed at the middle classes and their ordinary ‘period’ suburban homes, including even the much maligned ...
(i) In my studio(ii) In the garden this morning. Im into gardening a lot and I keep thinking about the virtual garden design program I had as a teen and its singular inappropriateness for rendering p...
SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE Ive put my prints ON SALE. Treat yourself!
I did this drawing of a TYPICAL SCOTTISH SCENE the other day to test my patience. I guess Id send to it my Grannie in her Heilan hame if she were still able to see. As an additional special treat I t...
Since Ive had such a long, uh, holiday from this blog, it seems apt to ease myself back into it with some disposable snaps and a couple of drawings (below) of my recent HOLIDAY with college pals in N...
Artist OLIVER BRAID and I recently worked on a project for the Red Shed at the BBC Scotland building in Glasgow. These images are from a series of ten collaborative drawings which were auctioned off ...
Ive been starting to draw and work through some ideas for a new project, which I think will tie up some of the threads I left dangling at the end of college when I ran out of time. I feel like things...
Woodford Green, EssexRIGHT TO BUY AND THE WORKING CLASSUntil the housing bill of 1979 when Thatcher introduced the right to buy council houses, local authority housing estates were uniquely unchangin...
Ive been taking part in 28 DRAWINGS LATER to shame myself into drawing every day, and heres my first weeks efforts; from life, the tv guide and Street View of course. I ~promised myself~ Id post one ...
When my pal RICKY ~tweeted about 9 EYES, a blog of incredible images from Google Street View (check out the accompanying essay), I had that familiar sensation of simultaneously being delighted by it ...
One good thing about being back home right now is having access to my dads books, which Im honestly trying super hard to make use of despite the fact that I have a healthy generation web 2.0 attentio...
Dulwich, LondonPORTRAITS OF SELECTED FACADESBill*, originally from Yorkshire, lives on ____ Street, in a small Victorian bay-fronted terrace. Perched on the bay window’s roof is a large illuminated F...
matthew feyldswahili.beEric ShawPete WillisNieves BooksElla Plevin (See also her PHOTOS of our Nicholls & Clarke show, which feel like theyre from 36776835 years ago)nura poratSANTIAGO SALVADORWillia...
WOODFORD, ESSEXI reckon my dissertation was probably the part of my degree of which I was proudest, because it kinda felt like I was exploring something like unchartered territory, even if it wasnt s...
a few snaps of illustration at the camberwell summer show, courtesy of my dad.did my bit for pats YCN mural. coming up with a composition on the spot is scary! all photos from YCNS FLICKR.also did a ...
i only became consciously aware of JOCKUM NORDSTROM relatively recently but his influence is pretty apparent in a lot of contemporary illustration (which isnt to say he isnt contemporary, just that h...
i did THE SWIM, and defo didnt wear a wetsuit because im a man, and it was fun. the weather in bournemouth was a dream, even though me and my pal amys fetching british heart foundation swimming caps ...
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