Design Week...

Just picked up this weeks Design Week magazine, theres an interesting article on the 'hopefully' better 2011- with consultancies getting work in and starting to hire again, together with some figures for salary comparison between 2009-2010 (drawn from a recruitment agency questionnaire). Theres also a great piece by Garrick Webster that looks at illustration and the realm of technology. I got to throw in my 2 cents worth in 'talking tech'. Its funny that while everyone gives a valid comment about the subject- im the only one who mentions the costs involved in using tech to create! I often think its an overlooked area when people are talking about digital art, but maybe its just something that people are willing to accept mainly because traditional art materials are so expensive... at least with digital software your paint doesnt run out i suppose!

Anyway, if you get a chance to have a flick through it on the news stand or buy it, check out the article.

Vices show for London Miles...

In between bits and pieces i have been able to fit in this piece for a forthcoming show at London Miles Gallery. The show was originally slated for the end of March but has been put back a bit to May. As soon as the show details become available i will get them up here. In the meantime- heres my piece, the show is about modern vices and artists have been given a particular vice or guilty pleasure to run with. Mine was gambling and i really wanted to do something along the theme of the traditional tattoo pin-up of 'Mans Ruin' and this is what that evolved into.

Titled 'Mans Ruin', the final work is mounted on board and varnished, approx 44x60cm / 24x17" (minus frame) and will be on sale via London Miles Gallery. Below is the full image and a few details.

Daily Telegraph 70s Hair...

Heres another recent piece done for the Daily Telegraph fashion supplement. The article was about the big frizzy hair seen on the catwalk. It needed a fair amount of space for the typography / copy etc and to make it easier to shift i bled out to white on the right. I was trying to get this done at the same time as moving house so im not 100% happy with it, but i still think its a nice image. Not having seen the actual article yet i dont know whether they went for my original design or the alternate- after a request from the AD i removed some of the extra accent details. Below is the original artwork, a side by side of the two versions and a few detail shots.





Edit: weirdly enough i got a copy of the article page in the post today so heres a quick Instagram snap, bit of a shame the alt version got used...

A little update...

Well its been a week since our house move, starting to settle a bit better- getting used to a new place always takes some time- at the least ive managed to get a desk and my system up and running again and have been able to get on with some work. Im working on a big job at the moment, cant show anything about that one yet (probably not for quite some time in fact) but what i can show you is my piece for the London Miles Gallery show 'Pens and Needles' which will be taking place at the gallery on 25th Feb- 7th Mar.

I mentioned it in a previous post, its a tattoo theme show with a nice touch that not only are the works themselves inspired by tattoo culture but also the gallery has also chosen tattoo artists to contribute their works on media other than skin. Im hoping that im going to be able to get up to the smoke for this show, fingers crossed i will have the time / money to do so!

Here is my piece entitled 'Hera'. She is approx 295x425mm (11x16") minus the frame and is the first piece ive used a hot press dry mounting process to bond it to a ply board then varnished. If youre interested in buying, please contact the gallery for pricing info.



Here is the show flyer:

Shop notice...

As some of you may be aware, i am currently in the process of moving house. Consequently, through 24th Jan - 7th Feb orders placed at my online shop will have some delays in getting processed. Bear with me, as soon as we have settled in a bit i will get orders sorted out. A few orders that have been placed this last weekend should (with any luck) go out at the end of this week. Buyers will of course be kept up to date via email.

Cheers.