Green things!

New illustrations of some tasty green foods for a special new collaborative project coming soon!

Corita Kent at Galerie Allen, Paris 12th March - 19th April 2014

Last week I went to Paris to see the exhibition of screen prints by Corita Kent whose work I adore, at Galerie Allen, a new space recently opened by curator Joseph Allen Shea.

Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), aka Sister Mary Corita Kent, was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kent was an artist and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen and serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.

From the top down;

Corita Kent don't back up, 1967 silkscreen on paper 76 x 91 cm Edition of 1 ex courtesy the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles

Corita Kent come alive, 1967 silkscreen on paper 34 x 58 cm Edition of 1 ex courtesy the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles

Corita Kent earth as a sign, 1962 silkscreen on paper 78 x 65 cm Edition of 1 ex courtesy the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles

Corita Kent let him easter In us # 2, 1963 silkscreen on paper 78 x 65 cm Edition of 1 ex courtesy the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles

Gorge Walks

To imagine Dartmoor, a vast moorland in South West England, I always pictured a bleak, vaguely-rolling landscape drenched in a non-descript mist, occasionally penetrated by stray sheep and escaped prisoners. Yet after spending a few months exploring Devon beyond it being a way of getting into Cornwall, it seems Dartmoor is in fact a luscious paradise of green-things, hidden waterways, and steep, steep rainbow-lit gorges. A 3 mile walk along Lydford Gorge north of Tavistock takes you alongside the fast-flowing river Lyd, littered with (variously dramatic) waterfalls which empty into unexpected turquoise plunge pools. The whole thing appealed to the small part of me which wants to live in a damp cave, surviving on sea-kelp and sardines. Or any other non-descript wild-kinda-life which requires simple (read: not necessarily easy to come by) fuel.

Shelter Magazine

I have produced some illustrations about new towns for the latest issue of Shelter Magazine, for housing and homeless charity Shelter. Commissioned by Smoke, a new marketing agency with a social purpose.

US Roadtrip Maps

A series of unpublished maps I illustrated recently for an editorial feature on US road trips.

The Grand Budapest Hotel dir. by Wes Anderson