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May 10, 2012

Nordic Bakery – Cinnamon buns

Nordic Bakery – Cinnamon buns

Not *quite* like the real deal, but still. The cookbook is a pre-birthday present and a fab one at that; it has a very high ratio of cardomon-featuring recipes! Won’t stop me from visiting the Nordic Bakery cafe though…

London Life Bake, Bun, Cafe, Cinnamon, London, Nordic

May 7, 2012

Shapes & textures from Hastings’ beach and fishing fleet

Shapes & textures from Hastings’ beach and fishing fleet

Travel Fish, Nautical, Seaside, Shape, Texture

May 6, 2012

Countercultural artwork presented by Maggs & Strange Attractor

Countercultural artwork presented by Maggs & Strange Attractor

‘Unstable’ is a collection of abstract artwork from Battle of the Eyes – Savage Pencil (Chris Long) & Eyeball (Edwin Pouncey), Joel Biroco, Julian House and Cathy Ward. All are visual artists, but they are also polymaths, working as illustrators, musicians and even occultists and many have been published in the Strange Attractor Journal. All [...]

Arts, London Life Abstract, Concept, Exhibition, London, Painting

May 2, 2012

Collaborative sculpture & Oblique Strategies

Collaborative sculpture & Oblique Strategies

Using a combination of the round-the-clock format (each person contributes for a set period of time – in our case, minutes!) on a series of projects and using prompts from Eno/Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies, we ended up with an unusual collection of pieces. What was useful about this experiment was it forced you to start without [...]

Arts, My Work CityLit, Collaborative Projects, College, Construction, Recycle, Sculpture

Apr 26, 2012

Actionettes as Lichtenstein ladies – posters painted for the show

Actionettes as Lichtenstein ladies – posters painted for the show

Some posters we painted from drawings I’d done based on the ladies… The posters were created using the genius Rastorbator programme (Free!) that creates multi-sheet posters from your artwork and makes them all Lichtenstein-dotty in the process. You can alter the number of sheets and the density of the dots – very useful! Photos from [...]

My Work Actionettes, Lichtenstein, Painting, Posters

Nov 3, 2011

Visual notes from the business world…

Visual notes from the business world…

Visual notes made at the RAREforum in London’s Drill Hall

My Work Drawing, Illustration

Nov 1, 2011

Sketchbook monoprint faces (and a chair)

Sketchbook monoprint faces (and a chair)

Some pages from my sketchbook

My Work Collage, College, Monoprint, Sketchbook

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