Decorative Map

Had a lovely commission last month to produce a decorative map for the National Trust. This was published on their leaflets to promote one of their Welsh sites during the Radio One Big Weekend. A tight schedule but fun to do. The site looks gorgeous in their photos and hope to get around to visiting one day.

London Transport Competition

Image to promote London's new cycle superhighways. With a nod to Saul Steinberg!

Andy Perez

Some gorgeous collages.http://andytheillustrator.com/blog
This one is Grow Your Own Food.

New paintings

Last month I got back into doing original paintings of local areas, but from a very different angle, and using collage too. Exhibited at green Walk arts and Crafts open weekend (1st and 2nd May) and got some good feedback. Here is one of them - the lychgate at Chorlton Green.

Chris Ofili exhibition

Impressive exhibition at Tate Britain of Manchester-born artist who won Turner prize in 1998.  Uses variety of media, including decorated balls of elephant dung. My favourites were his beautiful liquid small-scale watercolours, Afromuses (1995-2005) with areas of intense colour within the varying shades of brown.

Alan Fletcher exhibition

An impressive exhibition of Alan Fletcher's work at The Cube, Manchester.

The Fox the Crow and the Smelly Old Cheese

A new colour palette.