A few months ago I started work on a trilogy of paper illustrations of extinct North American birds. I say three but in reality it ended up being two - and then I exhibited the two as a pair as part of a show by the art collaborative I'm part of 'Fabula Tres'. Since being given the 'Doomsday Book of Animals' as a child by my nan I have been fascinated by animal extinction, when they became extinct, did they disappear in captivity or in the wild and whether a question mark han

Busy the past few months creating artwork and having recently staged an exhibition with two other artist friends this new blog post has been a long time coming. Inspired by the Winter Olympics earlier this year and by a good friends enthusiasm for the games and in particular the women's Curling event I felt that this would be an ideal subject for a new Nutella jar model. It's been a about a year since I'd last created a paper piece on this scale in one of the glass domes and

This A3 paper illustration of a pair of Cardinal birds was originally conceived as a greetings card design to coincide with Valentines Day. However as I progressed with the piece I decided to abandon limiting it to just a commercial item for a once a year occasion and instead build it up into a more complete image that could possibly be part of an exhibition later in the year. cardinals are North American birds so I included a Glorious beetle from the same part of the world t

Within the Star Wars collectors circle, particularly those who are interested in the figures, vehicles and playsets from the vintage line (late 70's - early 80's) there exists people producing reproduction weapons. Many of the blasters, rifles, staffs and such that came with each figure ended up getting lost by one means or another leading to complete (original figures with original weapons) characters being sought after and highly prized. The scarcity of weapons has led to t

I've been making a few miniature greetings cards of late. I then had the idea to make a stand to place them on as I see them more as display pieces than functional cards (although they can work that way and I have produced them as such for friends and family). The bases themselves are a simple circular designs with a peg that slots between the card and paper insert. Here is a selection of my latest designs: Batman and Robin, Princess Leia and He-Man - with removable sword! #P