I will be at the Bristol Artists' Book Event at the Arnolfini Gallery this weekend, Saturday 11-6 and Sunday 10-5.  Nick Morley and I will be selling a collaborative book of 14 etchings "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge's Taxonomy" inspired by the essay by Jorge Luis Borges, "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins. We made 14 etchings in a day and a half in Nick's freezing studio in Margate

My camera is swapping certain colours, not sure why.

Portrait Commission

Here is another of the eight portraits

Portrait commission

I have been very busy working on a commission to do eight portraits. I did them as etchings, each one is 16x20cm. Below are two of the eight.

I will be at handmade and bound at the St Bride foundation this weekend with Nick Morley. I have a new screen printed book "Topless Celebrities", sixteen pages of topless celebrities in FULL colour (red and blue), 20x25cm. I'll also be selling other odds and end, and lots of other people selling more interesting stuff.

Sweet Angel, 17x17cm.
I have been fighting with this etching for a couple of days. I overbit it and was trying various things to salvage it, like some burnishing and a spray-painted aquatint.

This is a new etching "Bright Eyes", 20x30cm, for an upcoming exhibition "Survival of the Fittest" running from 20 July to 1 October at the Waterworks Nature Reserve at Lea Valley Park. It is a hard ground etching combined with a bit of photo etching and chine colle.

There may be no pantomime in June but there is ELP's annual show at Forman's Smokehouse Gallery. I'll be showing a work called "White Elephant" which is a screenprint on canvas. It is 100cm x 67cm.

"1980, the cold war. USSR invades Afghanistan, US boycotts Olympics. Mugabe sweeps to power, Rhodesia dies, Zimbabwe is born. The hockey team have 35 days notice to prepare for the Olympics. The all-white team are undefeated and win the gold. A white elephant."