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The Outsider

Recent work for a competition to illustrate The Outsider' by Albert Camus , organized byHouse of Illustration and the Folio Society . The competition required three illustrations spanning the entire book, plus the cover design with consideration given to the folios binding.

A Graphic Cosmogony

'A Graphic Cosmogony' published by Nobrow is now available to pre order. To find out more or and purchase a copy click here. The book features a whole host of talented folk giving their take on the idea of creation over a 7 page comic. Heres the cover of the book and a couple of my pages.

Beautiful Flag - Street Level Women

I created this record cover for an little record I recorded with my missus and a friend. You can download it if you want, you guys.

HELLO FRIENDS

Hand

im very excited to announce my new book 'Hand' is now out. Published and beautiful hand screen printed by NoBrow. They have set about making a fantastic platform to showcase illustrators own authored work . Producing a variety of formats with the print process clearly thought about for each job. Visit their site to see work by a strong variety of worldwide artists

thanks to everyone involved in the printing etc at NoBrow

click here to buy 'Hand'

things of note

so on friday in baltimore, ill have a lot of work up at NUDASHANK, along with Amir H. Fallah, Jason Redwood and John Bohl.

and then on saturday here in LA, ill be in a show at Synchronicity Space sponsored by Colt 45 and curated by Beautiful Decay

finally, august 1st will see the release of my first long format comic book, which maybe i've hinted at. more on that soon, i would guess.

here are some random images that were on my desktop. i can't be bothered to plug in my external hard drive. not today... not today.

reduction woodcuts

heres some new reduction woodcuts which i made for the Pick Me Up show in london last month. The couple on horses come as a pair and i originally made these as stencil screen prints ( seen in an earlier post) but the results weren't great, so reworked them as woodcuts, which was a process that suited my work better

the second print 'swimmers ' sold out at the show but a have a couple of artist proofs for sale.

will be on sale at peepshop from next week

East River Bar: Arthur Miles

Flier depicting forgotten Texas cowboy and throat singer Arthur Miles for a night at a bar I sometimes DJ at.

You can his one song here it here.

i had some new books printed recently they are really nice black and white inside and gloss cover.

screen print work in progress

the stencil screen print i have been working on for somerset house is just needing the lack to finish. its been a good learning curve and the edition becomes smaller and smaller with every colour added due to mistakes. The image registration is perhaps too important on this image, not really embracing the technique and with 4 colours there is little chance for each stencil to match. the frisk film holds up a lot better than paper but with large areas can be tricky to apply without any small air bubbles that can trap ink. the aim was an edition of 20 but it could end up being between 5-10

recently finished these two cushions as a gift for laura. The front, a more narrative picture construct of a whale hunt, and the back shows two sides of the war in graphic symbols. The influence that has always been is in my paper work of asfaro flags comes even more to the forefront in these cushions. Being limited by skill and the physicality of the materials stops them having too much unnecessary detail and depth , which too often creeps into my paper work.