ROMA

Just worked up some linseed oil lino cuts of some type logos for my friends ROMA surf-shop. A great small local company run by my lovely friends, the hardworking Rob Morgan. Not only is Rob a talented surfer, photographer with an eye for everything but he's horribly humble and kind. I created ROMA's logos hand printing and with a relief press, took 2 days to dry (due to linseed oil ink) then...

         “Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.” Marc Twain hello all, and on this the day of the stormy warnings i have spent and evening in with the rain outside (after too much fun surfing and having sunny weather) and have managed to...

Due to the super fun surf conditions of last week i was ridiculously unproductive. But as i bust my ankle on the rocks and it being the size of a adult rhino, means i cannot go gallivanting about with the dog on the coastline, but actually do some work for once ...positive/negative. I'm back to working on the final stages of a cover design for the children's book iv been working on this year,...

thanks tarns

Working with some hand painted fonts for the last few month with lots of different projects, one i really enjoyed was painting a thank you card for a friends wedding. A fun little card for a pair of ruddy good eggs, lots of happy love to their life adventures together as tar...

I have a new set of prints available to buy from my etsy shop, i will be updating these through the next 2 weeks. Inspired by dawn and dusk walks staring at the light glares on the sea from a series of coconut inspired pieces, here is pinacolada loco ink and lino print two narrative inspired illustrations for print  love to all...

rvca wetsuit design

Ah happy bunny, woke up this morn to an email from cooler to say i was one of the 5 finalists of their LIMITED EDITION RVCA WETSUIT competition. Unfortunately didn't win the gorgeous wetsuit but it was fun to do, and looking forward to experimenting with screen printing and drawing onto different materials like neoprene soon.  It was also picked by one of my favourite creative humans,  Miss Margaux...

letterfest

i have also been working recently with a local company called Letterfest whilst my friend is off for paternity leave as he welcomes his new egg to the world. Iv taken his place obsessively drawing buildings as architecturally accurate as possible with loose freehand style, which has caused me to go mildly insane as i try to get faster , eyes have been crossing but its slightly fun....

birds and strange legs

so we are into the first month of the new year and today the sun came out! to keep warm iv been walking lots and hiding in the studio, i have 3 exciting projects on the go here are 2 of my feather butts friends  waxwing finch also for you odd folk, heres some images i revisited when doing my feet images, these are for pages of a mini-zine this is a technique i used to use for reference...