Hello,

So I've been drawing more food.  This time of the savoury variety.  This is another one of my concoctions which i love eating.  What I love food wise often gets a mixed reaction by people I know, so maybe I have strange tastebuds.....or maybe not......but anyway, I'm the one eating it! :).  So I love the luscious colours of an aubergine and I had a lot of fun as usual making textures and patterns with the ingredients.  I'm enjoying drawing what is different subject matter for me and I have a lot of other food related ideas bouncing around in my head.  In the meantime I hope you enjoy this piece.
Bye for now!

Hello, so here we are mid way through January already.  It's the time of year when people are possibly still sticking to their new years resolutions combined with it being cold and wet (well here in London it has been anyway....err no change there then!)......so in keeping with that here's a recipe filled with goodness!  I've been wanting to draw more food related things for a while and I love porridge, made well of course, with a bit of attention, and the raspberries just give it a bit of an edge.    So I had a lot of fun creating this piece, playing around with shapes and patterns, creating textures and colouring.  Of course I had to keep testing out the recipe :).  I hope you enjoy!

Porridge with Raspberries

Hello,

So it's almost Christmas and I am very excited to be heading home and relaxing for a bit.  My presents are wrapped and stacked ready to go and I......am not packed but that will happen....soon!
So as it is that time of year here's a Christmas illustration that I completed recently.
Happy Christmas! :)

Hello,

So just recently I decided to treat myself to a trip away.  Just a small one, so I went to Paris for a few days which was just what I needed.  It had been more than a year since I'd left the country, way too long so it was definitely time to go.  It was also the first time I've travelled for the whole time by myself which I thoroughly enjoyed.  So during the day I was out and about gallerying and wandering (and erm eating a bit of delicious food!) and then in the evening I'd come back to my hotel, sketch and put a film on (always in French of course so I understood very little!) Anyway i was really happy spending my days like this and I realised that I really needed a break from my regular life.  Paris is so beautiful and inspiring.  I have been before but this time I really felt like I got to know more of the city from all the wandering around I did, I wish I could speak more French though...next time!  One place I'd never been to before was the Pompidou centre which I loved and I particularly enjoyed the wonderful drawing exhibition from the collection of Florence and Daniel Guerlain.  I wish I'd spent more time there.  Of course there are so many amazing sights in Paris too many to mention.  Below are a few of my sketchbook scribbles based on what I saw whilst I was there.

Also here's my latest piece of work.  Autumn has well and truly arrived here, cold, wind and darkening nights.......but It's not all doom and gloom at least we get amazing leaf colours for a while :).  Bye for now

Breathe

Hello,

This is what I've been working on recently, all based around the human body, cells, muscle structure and so on.  I've become quite fascinated with anatomical drawings over the last few months, and I wanted to create something based on this theme.  It was refreshing to work with a different set of colours than the ones I'm used to, and I have been introducing felt tip pen and crayons into my work just lately, which are making some really nice marks and textures, a bit of an obsession of mine!
Have a good week!

Hello,

Here's the latest piece I've been working on just recently, all about the seaside.

In July we had some really lovely weather here which was greatly appreciated!  On one of those hot days I took a little day trip to Brighton, somewhere I always enjoy visiting and being so close to London it's always easy to get to.  It was so nice to be able to enjoy the hot weather and relax a bit, I even swam in the sea! something which is very rare for me in this country nowadays.

Part of my reason for visiting was that I wanted to do some seaside inspired work.  This piece isn't specifically about Brighton at all, but more the traditional things associated with the typical british seaside town, the fairground, ice cream, fish and chips and so on.  I don't usually make work that's about typically British things but I wanted to with this.  I hope this piece captures some essence of the summer for you.  I worked on it over some lovely sunny weather and one particularly rainy day - a typical summer here :).
Hope you enjoy!

Seaside

Hello,

Summer has finally come to the UK and very lovely it is too.  The gorgeous weather really made me want to draw some summery things especially strawberries so that's exactly what I did.  I am a bit obsessed with using green in everything I do at the moment and it was great to be able to contrast it with the rich oranges and reds.  I wanted the piece to feel quite bright and airy and be quite decorative too.  It was really a treat to be able to work on this whilst the weather was so nice as it really helped inspire me I think.  I hope you enjoy :)