I’m working on pictures to illustrate a book about music. It’s exciting. Here’s a rough preliminary sketch.

I’m away for a period of time while I think…

I will be back…

I don’t know what inspired this iPad picture but, it centres on the subject of style –  forms of dress as well as forms of address.

iPad drawing

I went to see the David Hockney Portraits exhibition at the Royal Academy. So admire how his first principle is to be contemporary. But it means there’s not as much detail as sometimes one would love to see. Especially with a master colourist like him. I remember his portraits done in crayon- a million years ago at a gallery in Paris. I’m a massive, massive fan. And he once sent me an email with a marvellous picture on it- but long before that I was a fan for life I think.

I’ve been gone on Instagram for a while, but here I am back again with a drawing. Ballpoint on paper.

This is work in progress -from a group of boys by the beach in California, way back. iPad drawing. I drew this on 31st January – in the ancient Celtic Calandar that’s Imbolc – when Brigid the goddess of fire is recovering from giving birth to a young boy God. That’s a very old way of saying it’s the beginning of Spring. 

This is a portrait I drew on iPad – from a Selfie by a stranger on Instagram. It turned out to be Jack Trewin, a painter, and the son of Simon & Helen Trewin.

I’m drawing in sharpy, water-crayon and ballpoint on large sheets of paper- lots of people in relation to eachother.

This is part of a new painting, and it’s work in progress- as you can see by the splodgy bits 

portrait | oil on board