This is one of a series of Limited Edition Prints, that I have made entitled Darklife to celebrate the new record by Blur each one is an impression of a band member, the series of works will include the brilliant Stephen Street.

Price on enquiry.

I'm starting a new collection of sketchbook drawings, that are of the commuters and people of greater London as I see them , that I will post regularly on this blog .

                                                              Title: A fun Day Out

Greater London project

                               Greater London project

                               Greater London project

I am happy to say that I am the winner of the WW1 Surrey Remembers competition in association with the Surrey Heritage fund. 

40 limited edition screen prints will be made of the work to be auction off in a high profile event.

Title: Where Youth And Laughter Go

                                                                                                                                                                                   

The poem below inspired the title of my work.

Poem By Siegfried Sassoon

Suicide in the trenches

I knew a simple soldier boy

Who grinned at life in empty joy,

Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,

And whistled early with the lark.

 

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,

With crumps and lice and lack of rum,

He put a bullet through his brain.

No one spoke of him again.

 

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye

Who cheer when soldier lads march by,

Sneak home and pray you'll never know

The hell where youth and laughter go.

I feel honored to have been awarded second prize for the Winston Churchill Design Competition. The competition is in association Pentland Group and the Churchill Design Foundation and Arts Thread. 

And here is the winning illustration for your viewing, I really hope you enjoy looking at the work as much as I enjoyed creating it.

I am happy to say 

that I have been shortlisted for the 

Winston Churchill Design competition 

along with six other artists.  The competition is in association

The Churchill Foundation 

and Arts Thread.

I am dew to attend a photo shoot and ceremony at the Churchill War Rooms, with the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. There will also be a exhibit of the shortlisted artists work in the coming months.

See below for some of the my lead up work for the the final illustration which I submitted for the competition. The shortlisted work I will post in the coming weeks, but below is a tasted of the work.

Selected sketchbook pages.

Graphics:

Italian model wearing one of designs,