Exhibition at Summerlee Museum

I've been busy making new work based on fairy tales and folk tales, magical animals, skulls, shoes and teacups! You can see what I've been working on at my exhibition from 7th November 2011 until 9th January 2012, at Summerlee Museum, Heritage Way, Coatbridge, ML5 1QD

Arctic Expedition

Sticker Designs for the National Trust

The National Trust commissioned me to design some children's stickers for Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire. I based them on stone carvings of a greyhound and a dragon which are part of the building. 

Teacups, shoes and hummingbirds...

I entered this sketch a contest to paint the hoarding for the new Anthropologie store in Edinburgh. It's all a bit random but I like it. I might even paint it on my wall at home...

Dogs

Flying Piggy Banks

Screen Printed Book Covers

Screen printed book covers for Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut and Berlin Game by Len Deighton, two of a set of book covers I made for my family's favourite books.

finished!

I've finished it at last!

Still on Safari...

A work in progress...

On Safari

I'm working on an illustration for an article about travel in Zambia

Print Creature

I made a big print of lots of these animals in a printmaking workshop last year. It is a monoprint made using cut out paper stencils.

More Bad Mice

Here are two spreads that I did for the picture book I am working on - It's an adaptation of "The Tale of Two Bad Mice" by Beatrix Potter.

Another Book Cover

This is a silk-screened book cover that I did last year. It was part of a project where students from Glasgow School of Art designed covers for books in the library of the University of the West of Scotland in Paisley. Before I took it out, this book had not been taken out of the library for 20 years!

Book covers

I made these book covers for my sister and brother-in-law for christmas. They were originally going to be silk screen prints but in the end I printed them digitally although using the same process as for silk screen - using separations which I coloured digitally.

"The Tale of Two Bad Mice" work in progress...

This is for the scene where the mice, Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca first spot the delicious food on the dining room table. In the original it's ham, lobsters, fish and fruit. But in my version I've changed it into an amazing tea with big cakes, buns, trifle and biscuits. (maybe strawberries and cream too...) Shame it all turns out to be fake.

I am still here...!

Some more images from the dummy book I am making - an adaptation of "The Tale of Two Bad Mice" by Beatrix Potter... I'm trying to get this finished before christmas...

Freddie

I'm doing some top-secret christmas things, so I've cheated and uploaded some illustrations I did back in May! They were for a Waterstones competition to illustrate Julia Donaldson's new picture book "Freddie and the Fairy"