Guardian Film &Music, 18 July 08

A piece I did for last friday's Film & Music section of the Guardian.

The piece was entitled ' Life, the Universe and Kensington' and was a Martian's Guide to the Proms.

My original idea was a flying saucer lifting the Albert Hall with a tractor beam, the Martian saying 'Heave' and the audiance inside the RAH replying 'Ho' (a reference to the tradition of the arena shouting one thing when the piano is brought on stage, and the gallery audiance response).
However, the idea was rejected. So here is the final version. Even this met with some resistance as the powers that be/ those upstairs thought my audiance looked too old-fashioned and 'posh', but I stood my ground and argued that that was my illustrative style and besides, this is the Proms, it is old-fashioned and posh ( and none the worse for it!)!

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A Belated Bastille Day

Here's the design for a tea-towel N and I recently cooked up for his skin-and-blister's 50th birthday ( She and her husband have bought a farmhouse in Burgundy with the hope of relocating there permanently within the next few years)

A cock (symbol of France, or Gaul, since Roman times), a bottle of le gros blanc and les bons mots ' Vive La Vie Française' in the colours of the tricoleur. Printed on 2 different grades of slubby linen.

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Owl, by Gerda Mayer

One of 3 images I have created to illustrate a selection of Gerda Mayer's hauntingly resonant poems for an exhibition organized by Waltham Forest Friends of the Earth at the Changing Room Gallery, London e17. The exhibition runs this week until Sunday 6th July, so if you're in the area, do pop by to check it out.

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Hopefully I'll get to meet the lady herself at the Private View, looking forward to that!

Hunger by Gerda Mayer

One of 3 images I have created to illustrate a selection of Gerda Mayer's hauntingly resonant poems for an exhibition organized by Waltham Forest Friends of the Earth at the Changing Room Gallery, London e17. The exhibition runs this week until Sunday 6th July, so if you're in the area, do pop by to check it out.

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Eat It All Up, Darlings by Gerda Mayer

One of 3 images I have created to illustrate a selection of Gerda Mayer's hauntingly resonant poems for an exhibition organized by Waltham Forest Friends of the Earth at the Changing Room Gallery, London e17. The exhibition runs this week until Sunday 6th July, so if you're in the area, do pop by to check it out.

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ZeitGeist

Zeitgeist
n. spirit of the times; trend of thought and feeling in a period [G (zeit time, geist spirit)]

An Image from my current Notebook ( numero 124!) which I used for a screen print workshop in Dalston, East London last week.

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Computing Which? - Car Boot Sale

Long time no post
But no, I haven't been idle, far from it

Here's a piece I did recently for regular client Computing Which? and their September issue.
It was for a piece about how to wipe your old PC of data in order to sell it on, in this case at a car boot sale!

Biro and Staedler pigment marker, cleaned and coloured up in Photoshop.

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