This is Now

Work in progress detail, upcoming collection The last few days, I have felt a sense of pleasant relief, then it occurs to me why this is. I have committed to getting rid of social media, which I am in the process of doing (this is not as simple as one might think, so I have detailed the process below). The most significant other time I have experienced this feeling, was years ago when I gave up drinking. I felt that same sense of lightness, of being unburdened and at the sa

Just a brief announcement (and longwinded explanation) to round off 2025: I’ll be terminating my social media accounts in the new year, specifically Facebook and Instagram. I’ve been chewing on this for a while, but a recent realisation helped me to make the final decision. Note: Please listen to Sofia Isella’s song All of Human Knowledge Made Us Dumb. Her entire catalogue’s pretty tight and she’s only twenty. For the past year, I have been working on a book where I discus

Given the current upheaval of having the entire carpet seemingly ripped from under us as creatives, one point of difference may be this:  To be a traditional artist still standing once this swell has passed, may have significant value, the same way in which there was a fear during the digital illustration boom of the 2000s that there would be no more room for traditional illustration.

One of the challenges posed by being a professional artist, is to actually produce your own work while moving the whole ‘professional’...

Here is a snippet of the ink piece I recently completed for my friend, poet Donny Truter's exhibition of his work.

Welcome to the first post and start of a new chapter. My personal art has been on the backburner for some time, being occupied full time....