The Guide

Format: 594*841 mm
Medium: Ink, coloured crayon, emulsion and a found old map
This collage is a responce to a 'Cave Birds' poem. My reading of the poem encoraged me to create a slightly more abstract piece. This piece was about migrating birds.

Sphynx

Format: 841*594 mm
Medium: Inks & Bleech on Somerset 300gsm
This was to illustrate one of the poems by Ted Hughes, hopefully I should finish illustrating the book by the end of summer 2010.

Council Bird

Format: 594*841 mm
Medium: Inks, Emulsion, Graphite and Oil Stick
This piece was inspired by Quentin Blake's 'The Life of Birds' This then triggered a new direction for my degree show. I was going to illustrate Ted Hughe's poems 'Cave Birds'. This piece was depicting a rough-council-estate-single-mum type of person.

Freezing Slide

Format: 420*594 mm
Medium: Graphit, Ink and Emulsion
This is based on a little sketch that I did when my house was freezing and a horrbile place to live in. The manic charchter is sliding down the chart - as the temperature drops, the days slide deeper into the winter months.

Stormy Weather

Format: 297*420 mm
Medium: Ink on creased cartridge 210 gsm paper
This was a quick & gutsy experiment exploring stormy weather. The accidental figure creates a feeling of isolation and turbulence.

Organic, Catastrophic Triptych

Format: 707*177.5 mm
Medium: Inks, Bleech, Emulsion & Acrylic
This triptych was a personal and abstract exploration. In the exploration I have compared the uncanny resemblance of broccoli and a mould molecule to an atom bomb mushroom. The third illustration was inspired from a photo of a Hiroshima victim.

A Difficult Birth

Format: 420*594 mm
Medium: Ink, Emulsion and Graphite
A humorous narrative comparing an avocado to a pregnant woman. The pseudo-medical approach was applied to make the narrative feel more scientific.