Christmas 2009



 



In 1992, Joh Wiggle and the wheels of fire

A brandy glass, a hotel bathroom, a mobile phone...

This is my drawing for a design I did for AKA designs for an exhibition of Victorian Photography at the British Library. AKA are a very clever outfit with brilliant clever designers that create beautiful, professional designs for a range of clients, but I like to think I bring them a special kind of inky-ness.

This is my design drawing for the proscenium arch for 'Aladdin' at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness. Great theatre and a brilliant production. We bought in the set and many of the costumes, though I designed the principles including several different frocks for Twanky, but the set needed a Chinese frame. I looted every Oriental cliche - dragons, kites, butterflies, swirly clouds - OK, not every cliche, but enough to make a beautiful and perhaps even classy surround for the wackiness that we put inside it.

This is a costume drawing a did in 199something for a sweet but trivial play called 'Lettice and Lovage' that I designed for the Cheltenham Everyman.

I love drawing the figure, and in particular the way in which a piece of clothing transforms the shape of the body. Here, a shabby kimono turns an ageing, tired woman into a blocky, strong Japanese samurai... -ish.

The drawing was done with my Granny's old ink pen and ink, then I added watercolour using the set my Mum had when she was a little girl in the early 50s.
In 2008, I came back to the image and developed it further using Photoshop.

Hello

Hi,

I'm an artist and these are my adventures. OK, I'm guessing that sounds a bit pompous but right now I'm covering for the fact I can't get my head round all these different buttons and gadgets.

View my art [please]; enjoy the pictures; tell your friends [my friends ?]..

Have a dynamic ink dream [there I go with the pretentions again].

It's all about the images. Scribble and enjoy.