Mustard Café, Norwich

If you get chance, I definitely recommend a visit to Mustard Café in Norwich - the staff are really welcoming, the food is all home-made and the coffee is amazing.

I stand shoulder to shoulder with all denouncers of meanness. I honour spirit and faith and uphold the glorious amateur

This is another drawing of Billy Childish (very similar to the one I sold in 2010) which will soon be coloured and put on display (and for sale) at Mustard Cafe in Norwich.

(A big thankyou to Rosie and Rob at MakingSpace for helping me to get my work out into this fine city!)

Les jardin de la memoire

I've started to make a little comic book, entitled Les Jardin de la Memoire (or Memory Garden), about the dream-adventures of one man and his daschund.

Also, I just finished reading the graphic novel Blankets by Craig Thompson, and I urge you to read it too if you haven't already. It is beautifully crafted to the point of being impossible to put down and reminds me of the work of a lot of my favourite illustrators/comics artists (David Beauchard, Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba in particular).

Unfold Poster 19: Tune-yards at Paradiso 6/6/11

This is why I was building cardboard mountains.

The animal featured in this poster is an endangered species called the Mountain Bongo which is native to Mount Kenya - there are less than 100 mountain bongos in Kenya living in the wild. More than 300 are living in American zoos, but the plan is for them to return to their natural habitat in Kenya eventually.


I really recommend you listen to the tUnE-yArDs - the new album W H O K I L L is available now, and they are playing at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, on 6th June.

Interview

I have recently been interviewed by The Artfuls - you can read it here.

Picasso in Paris

The Van Gogh Museum have just announced that their exhibition Picasso In Paris 1900 - 1907 was "one of the best visited exhibitions in the museum's history", attracting 471,168 visitors  (full article here)

To see my poster design for the exhibition, click here.

Unfold Poster 19 - tUnE-yArDs

I have just had another A2 poster printed in Unfold (illustrating the tUnE-yArDs gig at Paradiso on 6th June - go go go!) it has been out in Amsterdam's finest cafes, galleries, cinemas, museums and music venues since Wednesday, and you can see it here too:

Open publication - Free publishing - More amsterdam

And here is a video of Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArD's in action:

I am currently GradGallery's featured artist of the week!

Have a peek at the GradGallery website here: http://www.gradgallery.co.uk/

GradGallery is a collective of University College Falmouth illustration graduates, specialising in a broad range of disciplines, with a mutual aim to promote our work in galleries and public spaces across the UK.

Lightmeter Beetle

Dan and I have a steadily growing vintage camera collection, and today I've been using it as a starting point to create mysterious camera-beetle hybrids. This one is the result of a liason between a Leningrad lightmeter and a Lubitel.

Soon after drawing this, a real beetle appeared on my toe, and I made a film about his life which you can watch here: http://vimeo.com/24259311