Elizabeth

pipedream

It seems odd to me that this morning's advent gingerbreadman is smoking.  But what do I know.

amulets

looking back through old sketchbooks, I found some pages of vague not-quite-anything thoughts about stories around amulets and charms.  This was at the time of the Cheltenham Illustration Award 2012, which took the Pitt Rivers collection of these as the starting point for a brief.  i don't know if it's just because they belong to me, but all these bits seem to add up to something closer to the atmosphere i wanted in the work i made at the end of it.

We do dinner every Thursday

A small painting of mine (this one in fact) will be in the Mill Road Winter Fair exhibition on Saturday 1st December. If you're there on the day, scamper along to the drama centre (on the same street as the six bells), i'm sure there'll be plenty of less peculiar pictures there too.

early elf

As far as I remember, this is a portrait of me as a christmas elf, by my sister patricia some years ago now.. Look how jaunty! Was i really that jaunty? What was it i had to jaunt about?

SHOES! evidently.

a rough idea

favourite

I'm making a comic for LOAf Magazine - late for my own deadline!  But that's the benefit of setting them I guess.