'The Second Doctor Service' By Daniel Mason

I recently illustrated a short story by Daniel Mason titled 'The Second Doctor Service' - mysterious and superbly crafted for Harper's Magazine in New York. (One of my all time favourire literary magazines).

Set in Edwardian Boston, the story plays with ideas of time slippage and 'the doppelganger': 'Or was he I, divided? A cutting? Which, cleaved from the stock, goes on to send forth its own roots? Or the corybantic twitching of a severed lizards tail, which eventually grows still? Were my memories his? What happens, Sirs, to the soul of the sea cucumber, when the sea cucumber is cut in two?' Daniel Mason is the author of The Piano Tuner (2002) and A Far Country (2007).

More Than Honey: V&A Awards 2014

Chuffed to have been shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Awards 2014. with this image. Numerous colonies of bees have been decimated throughout the world - described as 'colony collapse disorder'. It is argued that this is attributed to aspects of highly industrialised and mechanised practises of bee management. Domesticated bees are sick and dying. Only killer bees are thriving and scientists believe that by cross-breeding they could be used to bolster  the immune systems of the sickening Western Honey Bee.

The Poetry Society 2014

Just finished working with The Poetry Society on new imagery for 2014. Judges for the 2014 National Poetry Competition are Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell and Zoë Skoulding.  Enter here Last year there was an 'NPC on tour' around the world (vitual and actual). My image travelled to the Berlin Wall, the Statue of Liberty, and was taken by, among others, John Hegley, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lord Lucan (?!) Here's a link to those images. 

L'art est pas art

Clerkenwell Post

I was commissioned by designers, Cai & Kym to work on a cover for the 'Clerkenwell Post' - about 
the design and craft heritage of London EC1. The image is a tribute piece to William Caslon, the father of fonts and the printing industry that is such n important part of Clerkenwell's 
history.

Heart Website update

My biog on Heart website (my agent) has been updated.

'Prince Igor' ENO April 1-5

I was commissioned by Beam to provide imagery for the Russian Opera 'Prince Igor' by Alexander Borodin now being performed by Novaya Opera at the ENO April 1-5. The production is part of the UK-Russia Year of Culture. The golden image portrays the conflicted 'Prince Igor' caught between two worlds: Old Russia and the Polovtsians. Although well known in Russia (at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, passages of 'Prince Igor' were played) the opera is rarely performed in Britain. Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig, 
Stage Direction: Yuri Alexandrov, 
Set and Costume Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev. Graphic design: Beam.