happy new year!

happy

My xmas present to myself arrived today...

The Big Sleep

poems

New illustrations for Todd Swift's work on Etcetera. Mix of inks, varnishes
and acryllic, draw and printed.

customers' shoes

More drawing at work:

play

Pen and ink drawing. Illustration for Charlotte Hoare's work on Etcetera. Took me all morning to try and keep a house of cards up for long enough to draw it, ended up not even keeping it up long enough to take a photograph.

other

Is anyone out there?
Have a look back through some of my old work on Flickr and tell me what you think.
Also, anyone want to do a collaborative project?
Blogging is strange.

thought

Cover for Joshua Jones's debut poetry collection on Knives, Forks and Spoons Press. Check him out here, and on the blog we co-edit.

P.S. I am in love with Josh Jones and he is my boyfriend.

music

I'm gradually getting less scared of using the computer to edit handmade images.
Finally finished the cover artwork for King Laconic's new EP, release party in Norwich next week. Come along.

paid

Does drawing while I'm at work count as getting paid for illustration?

muertos

I designed and hand-embroidered lapels for The Proposition's Nigel Orme (aka Dad). Inspired by Mexican Day of the Dead artwork.

we do

Illustration for a poem by Nancy Devine, on etcetera.