Carnaby’s cockatoo concept sketch
A pitch for a series of watercolour paintings to decorate a clinic space. The project won’t go ahead, but it is useful to work through an idea.
Three Bookshop Graces
Fashion illustration / style diary in the style of Mr. Slowboy, watercolour and pencil on paper
Visiting Hours
Fashion illustration / style diary. Ink and watercolour on paper.
Diary Comic : On Opting Out
A diary comic formatted for Instagram, inkwash.
Overland process notes
The cover design for Overland issue 243 explores the idea of a post-human flooded city. The glass-bottomed kayak makes a window to the submerged world through a screen of floating trash. I looked at images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch along with areas of the ocean with a lot of plastic pollution. Initially I […]
First sketch in Procreate
What Artists Wear : Book review
I love books about clothes and how and why we wear what we do. Charlie Porter’s collection of essays, What Artists Wear is a satisfying marriage of art history and fashion writing. It begins with sections on Louise Bourgeois and her friendship with Helmut Lang, Georgia O’Keefe (whose three-piece suit appears on the cover), and the […]
The Monster of Her Age
This month a young adult novel by Australian author Danielle Binks came out, with an image on the cover that I made. Danielle and her editor at Hachette worked with me throughout the process, and the brief had lots of detail about the main characters Ellie and Riya. We had to narrow down an image […]
Margaret River Readers And Writers Festival 2021
I attended this year’s MRRW Festival as a guest of my good friend Cass Lynch, who was interviewing and on a panel as part of the festival’s program. The whole weekend was a literary delight, circulating Wooditchup with authors, publishers and other booksellers as well as readers like me. I sketched Cass and Karen Wyld […]
Family Portrait
Commission for my friend Yohann, a family portrait. Watercolour and ink on paper.