LOVE - Takeo Takei

Courtesy of A Journey Around My Skull I have discovered and fallen in love with Japenese 20th Century Illustrator Takeo Takei

R.I.P. Lucienne Day

One of my all time heroines the designer Lucienne Day, has died aged 93. The Guardian Obituary puts it better than I can:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/03/lucienne-day-obituary

Alcafar

Travels With Charley

In about 1960 John Steinbeck decided to travel around the USA for a few months in a pick up truck with just his poodle Charley for company. Its an lovely combination of Mr Steinback reflecting on his own wonderlust, witty and affectionate social observation and beautiful descriptions of the landscapes he drives through. Perfect armchair travel.

"...the air was rich with butter coloured sunlight, not fuzzy but crisp and clear so that every frost-gray tree was set off, the rising hills were not compounded, but alone and separate. There was a penetration of the light into solid substance so that seemed to see into things, deep in and I've seen that kind of light elsewhere only in Greece. I remember now that I had been told Wisconsin is a lovely state, but the telling had not prepared me."

Fishing Boat

Inspired by an old photo of a menorcan fishing boat..

In my mind, I still need a place to go

The Greengage Summer

Set over a dreamy summer in a beautiful faded, hotel in the french countryside in the 1950's. A perfect holiday for the mind. I can't put it down...

***Merry Christmas One and All***

Circus Bulgaria

This is a book cover I've been working on recently with designer Clare Skeets for Portabello books.

Juletid Christmas Fair

This Saturday the 12th of December I will be taking part in Juletid, a Swedish Inspired Christmas Fair in Eclectric studio, 9-11 London Lane, E8 3PR, just off London Fields
I will be selling greetings cards, note cards and postcards and there will be all sorts of other items on sale including t-shirts and jewellery, beautiful cakes, hand made Christmas decorations, books, prints and much much more. Alongside this there will be mulled wine, gingerbread cookies and roasted chestnuts.
The Fair opens at 1pm and will be open until 6pm.

Going with the leaves again

What is really beautiful?

Mrs Rundell

This is an illustration I did for this Sunday's Stella Magazine about the forgotten 18th Century domestic goddess Mrs Rundell.

This Place Where I live

Some pictures that will be featuring in the exhibition. The Private View is at 6.30pm at The Zetter Hotel on Clerkenwell Rd. Hope to see you there!

Morning Colours - CD Swap

Due to printer problems, I decided to hand draw my 10 covers for Peter Field's annual mix CD swap...

And October leaves cover everything...

This Place Where I Live

Natsko Seki and I will be having an exhibition in the foyer of The Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell London EC1. It opens on the 4th of November and will be up for the rest of the month. Its an exhibition of personal work inspired by our home city (London) and will feature watercolour paintings, collages and prints. The Private View is Wednesday the 4th of November from 6.30 onwards. Please join us then.

Field Work

I am very honoured to be taking part in Field Work a pop up shop and gallery organished by my lovely friends Caitlin Hinshelwood and Rose de Borman. I will be displaying a few things in the company of some very talented people including the aforementioned ladies, Jonny Hannah, Luke Best, Maxwell Wade and James Nash. Please see the flyer for opening times and location. The Private View is on the 29th of October- I hope to see you all there!

Britain Can Still Make It

A reissued Ernest Race Chair upholstered in my St Jude's Treehouse Fabric was featured in the recent Britain can still make it exhibition at Liberty.

Wedding Cake

I was very pleased see at my friends' Katie and Stephen's recent wedding that the cake had been decorated in the style of the invitation I designed. Its not every day that you get to eat cake in the style of your drawings and the wedding was lovely too...