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Tuesday 15 October 2013



Couple of life drawings here from a session last week...

Plenty going on down at Art Schism at the moment as well - Petrusco's show is coming to an end, before we have the excellent Mark Hooley showing new work for two weeks, then a 'Monsters' themed group show for one week starting on Halloween closely followed by BRAG.  It gets even more exciting after that so I will keep you posted!  It's open every day so head down and check out some awesome work.

Monday 14 October 2013



It's Autumn!  Hooray!  I bloody love Autumn, for so many reasons.  Tis kinda like the start of the new illustration year for one thing, with all the opportunities and exciting projects which that entails (not to mention the AOI Illustration Awards show, and all the other exhibitions that are happening at the moment), plus the new academic year of course, which in somewhere like Brighton heralds a glut of gigs (looking forward to Martha Tilston, The Staves, Resonators, Belleruche & Babyhead), concerts, festivals, club nights, exhibitions and culture of all kinds... and then there's all the food, and foraging opportunities, the turning of the leaves, the change in the air, the rugby, bonfires, books, walks.....

Two exhibitions worth mentioning that I've recently visited are the Jon Burgerman show at Brighton's Ink_d Gallery and the MA Illustration/Sequential Design at the University of Brighton.  The former is quite a scoop for the town (as is the Jan Svankmajer one that's just opened at the university - can't wait to go and have a nice long look at that) and was great to check out, although I have to say, like a lot of illustration/illustrators, the work doesn't always translate brilliantly to an exhibition/standalone format without an anchoring context, and dare I say it, some of it looked a little rushed (Posca pens on watercolour paper) in order to turn out a (pretty expensive!) product.  I think my favourite thing there was his wallpaper - works brilliantly.  Ink_d's always good for a little browse too and I especially enjoyed having a good nose at Sarah Shaw's canvases.

The MA show was the best I'd seen it in years - with some great invention, wide variety and some excellent drawing and painting (as well as modelling and wooden engineering!) skill on display.  Wish I could have spent longer in there to lose myself in some of the stories.

So new season - new stuff!  There's a bunch of fresh updates over on my website you could check out, plus I've finally got myself a Facebook page for my business, as well as an Etsy shop.  Terribly exciting (and yet more things to log in to, update, comment on etc etc....).  Which reminds me, must dash and update all the other ones.....