Hey, is that you?

Here's a little teaser portion of my poster on the front cover of the special edition "Van Gogh Museum Friday Night Programme" issue of Unfold. 

And here it is at the front desk in the Van Gogh Museum!

A huge thankyou to Russell Joyce, Steve McCarron and the rest of the very talented team at Unfold, and to the Communication Department at the Van Gogh Museum for this commission. I loved working on it, and I learnt so much.


You can find out more about the Picasso in Paris (1900-1907) exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum here, and about the Friday Night events for the exhibition here.


You can find full coverage of the exhibition in Unfold, which can be found squirrelled away in any one of these gezellig Amsterdam establishments.

(above image: another of my illustrations from inside the issue)

here's a little part of a bigger something I'm working on at the moment

(This was meant to be a picture of the young Picasso, but it doesn't really look like him.)

To escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter is the greatest of adventures

"and here...is the only spoil we have retrieved from all the treasures of the city" 

- Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting: A London Adventure

This is drawn from my memory, a tree I saw in London which sparked lots of new ideas for my comic.

I think it needs something in the foreground.

cheeky lass

A portrait of one of my dearest friends, Line Lorna, who makes beautiful illustrations (click here to have a peek) and who I hope to visit soon!

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

I am thinking of making a sequence of these images, of the plant growing and slowly taking over the house. Perhaps they will act as chapter headers.

If you find yourself caught in love

Hebe

A birthday card I made for Mum earlier this month, featuring our cat Hebe (and his new obsession: string)

He was a very good model and actually kept the pose for the whole time I drew him.

Do something pretty while you can...

My dashing hero is back from the film archive and so off we go happily adventuring together (Somehow the snow lets us get away with this)

London:
Billy Bragg at the Troxy
Eadweard Muybridge at Tate Britain
Francesca Woodman and Tom Lubbock at Victoria Miro Gallery
Glasgow:
Belle and Sebastian at the Barrowlands
Hertie Querty (featuring work by David Shrigley and Art Spiegelman) at GOMA

More excitement:
Unfold have very kindly invited me to illustrate a poster for them next year!
(and a fine new Rapidograph has just arrived in the post)

Unfold

 This is for the new issue of Unfold - its out today, so if you're in Amsterdam, grab a copy! 

Its a wonderful poster publication featuring work by some very talented writers, designers and artists, covering  "what's on. where. when. why" in Amsterdam. 

(Here are some of the magical places where you can find a copy).

My illustration is for an article on Amsterdam's International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA), the biggest documentary festival in the world (the little building reflected on the fly's body and wings is the Pathé Tuschinski, where the opening night and awards ceremony will be held.)

Thanks to my art director Russell Joyce at Unfold!

Raincoats, Finlandia, raincoats and lakes, the best words I take along in my field bag...

A lot of the reference pictures I've been looking at for my Christmas cards feature huge groups of Sami children, all looking very sullenly in the direction of the camera. I've tried to make my Sami children look perky...but they've ended up looking slightly crazy instead, haha!

I am now so tempted to get knitting hats and shawls...

its an old romance, a boho dance, it hasn't gone to sleep...

I'm still struggling to put a face on this fellow. So far my attempts have made him slightly too creepy or morose for Christmas card material.