when I was growing up botanical prints were kinda a thing on walls, that and 18th century engravings of Jamaica … anyhow, so over the past years I have been separating specific dready images, putting cats and dogs and trees and men and women in their own files so
I love Tofino, it’s an amazing place on Vancouver Island, the nature, the surrounding wilderness, the light, the colour … it’s all cool … artists portraying the Canadian landscape, often seem to have a theme – one that has a ‘moodiness’ at its core – and I wanted to
further down these blog posts there’s an image called ‘honey coloured grass’ which contains all these characters, but I wanted to pull them out and give them some space of their own so that people could appreciate them … I had originally been asked to draw the image for
the whole of my mother’s side of the family, my mother completely excluded, were horsey; the men, their wives, all the children, horsey as f**k and so my grandparents house was filled with the thewell comic books about fat, indisciplined ponies and their fat ill-disciplined riders … and even
so, if you don’t know by now, by reading it a few posts below, I work in two ways; the traditional stick figure dreadys where I first started out and because some things (myself included) demanded it, more evolved fully realised characters. but, ya know, still love the traditional
do you remember ‘the office christmas party’? in these past few pandemic years its one of those things that disappeared and may forever be ‘altered’ … a company asked me to do a drawing of the people in the office … they are a close knit group who try
we were in scotland in the fall while the bracken was turning and it gave the hills a distinctive colour … one day, while out walking, she said, ‘look how red the hills look’ … kingston, jamaica, has, like rome, 7 hills, and one of them is red hills
Jessie’s juice is a vegetarian cafe … it has outdoor seating under the shade of shower of gold trees … if you’re cool and in camana bay you take your coffee at Jessie’s … There’s an aesthetic that I like about it … but also am interested in the
Tawle is an arabic word for backgammon … and i liked the play on words, eh … tall boys, ‘big man business’ … I love backgammon. i started playing when I was young; days with my mother and step-father were steeped in backgammon and scrabble and yahtzee … a
it was a commission for a family that lives in connecticut and likes days out on their boat … in long island sound Charles Island is one of those hang out places where people raft up or beach their boats or just use as a vague meeting up point
