I was recently commissioned by the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond to create the promotional image for one of their forthcoming productions; a new play entitled ‘How to be Happy’, written and to be directed by David Lewis.

The illustration was based upon a concept suggested by Stephanie Potter, the Marketing Officer at the theatre, and will feature on all of the promotional material for the production, including flyers, programs and posters (scan below of the season brochure page on which it features).

‘How to be Happy’ runs at the Orange Tree from the 5th October – 5th November. Expect excitable blog posts nearer the time when posters etc. will begin to appear!

Today I’ve submitted my first ever design to Threadless (purveyor of splendid T-shirts, hoodies etcetera), which can be seen above.

I’d really be extremely happy if anybody has the time to pop over there and vote for it to be printed (an event that would inspire a rousing ‘Huzzah’ from me, amongst other things). The design is a riff on the tribal mask collages that I’ve been doing recently (pour example), albeit one that features a little more modernity than ususal…

Anyhow, if you’d like to spread the good word about the design, have a gander HERE, where there are lots of ways of sharing the news and hopefully soon the option of judging its’ worth.

Delirious to discover last week that a trip home coincided with another great Doodleplanet night at Telford’s Warehouse in Chester.

Fellow doodlers this time around were ace designers (and all round good eggs) Phillip Fry & Jo Williams. You can see the results of our labours below, photographs courtesy of Mr Fry.

Above: We were drawing underneath a couple of huge, gel-clad stage lights, which lent the evening the blue tint seen here.

Above: The end result!

The paint markers provided are really lovely to use – every time I’ve done Doodleplanet I’ve wandered away thinking that I should get some myself. Really nice colours and smooth marks, plus you can go over them once they’re dry – grand!

This month my work has once again been featured in the very shiny Exeter Flying Post! For this (the Interview issue) I did the above illustration of the famous Mostar bridge to accompany an interview with Miso Maric.
You can have a gander at the interview (and the issue in it’s entirety) here.