I have quite a few designs in my Celtic dragon series now, and this latest design came from wanting to play with the triquetra shape and turning it into a zoomorphic. You’ll see from the gallery that the initial design … Read More
If you’ve been following my blog / Instagram / Twitter for a while, then you’ll know that I always like to take part in the Twitter Art Exhibit each year. The project was originally set up 10 years ago by … Read More
Last month I was thrilled to be asked to illustrate the banner for Cult Pen’s newsletter, Penorama. I decided on a Celtic knotwork theme, using lettering based on those found in the Lindisfarne Gospels, and incorporating my Celtic dragons. The … Read More
A year ago I published my first book, the “Celtic Knotwork Colouring Book”. It was the result of two years of work, and I self-published it, doing all the illustrations, book layout, photography, working out how best to publish it, … Read More
Recently I was really pleased to be asked to create the illustrations and map and lay out the leaflet for the Consett Children’s Book Trail which starts tomorrow. The trail has been organised by Briary Local, who have set up … Read More
Huge thanks to @PaigntonPoet for his poem about my ‘Dragon Spiral’ artwork. As I wrote in this previous blog post, this piece has been donated to this year’s Twitter Art Exhibit to raise funds for Art in Healthcare. My piece … Read More
Here’s a little round up of my art in the wild! The first piece is a mail art piece for the short film, ‘Dear Eduardo‘. The film’s makers put out a mail art call for envelopes to be used in … Read More
It’s 8th of May already and yet still extremely gloomy outside! So I thought a colouring download that could be coloured in lots of bright colours would be the order of the day. This illustration was originally hand drawn by … Read More
A fun abstract watercolour that I painted yesterday as a sample piece for tomorrow’s community art workshop. I don’t work with watercolour paints all that often as I prefer either watercolour pencils or acrylic paints, but I’m quite pleased with … Read More
Day 25 of #the100dayproject already! I’ve had so much fun experimenting with my Celtic knotwork over the past 3 and a bit weeks. Days 1 to 11 were spent creating a series of four different circular pieces based on the … Read More