Ink drawings at 30x30cm. Shapes from the front of the house, the side, and at the back. The last of the Belarusian ink. I loved that ink.
Pulau Seribu memory
This is an old one I rediscovered—a montage (non-digital) of cut-up bits of watercolour paintings—made when I was still living in Jakarta.
It was part of a set of illustrations for a World Wildlife Fund book, but was never actually used in the end.
Illustrations for Road & Track
Sweet illustration job for Road & Track magazine—with big thanks to Cassidy Zobl.
This issue is themed ‘handmade’, and the idea was to create illustrations which depicted the two cars as if captured in a sketchbook. Everything was indeed handmade but some extra splashes and marks, and that fold down the middle of the page in the first one, were added digitally.
I’ll tell them I’m a dynamite dealer…
Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton in ‘Saturday Night Sunday Morning’. The bit where he’s trying to make conversation with his dad, but his dad just isn’t listening.
These memories lose their meaning
More of the sketchbook combinations. This one crashed before I could save it so all I have is this lo-res version.
Woman on the telly
Someone on the telly but I didn’t catch her name. I want to say ‘Margaret’ but I’m edging towards ‘Edith’.
Ben Wallace, Minister of Defence
Another sketchbook piece based on a photo I take off the TV during breakfast. This time it’s Ben Wallace, minister of defence in the UK.
I’m living in a kind of daydream
Lounge view
This is the view from my sofa, lovingly rendered in ink and pencil at about 50 x 70 cm.
My floor isn’t normally this untidy, I should make this clear. I was thinking more about the composition. The man on the screen is someone else I photographed talking about war one morning.
“I still don’t know if my wife is even alive.”
Lately I’ve been photographing people on the TV—mostly in the morning with my coffee—and then later drawing them in my book. This guy was fleeing the war in Ukraine.