// ME ME ME //
I live and work in St Albans, UK. It's quiet, quaint but very quick into London.
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+44 (0) 7751 141 560
Email me. Say hello.
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+44 (0) 7751 141 560
Email me. Say hello.
// I graduated as an illustrator, became a designer, then became an illustrator again. So I’m an illustrator who gets frustrated by bad kerning and when I hear 'rivers' and 'widows' in the same sentence, I know there hasn't necessarily been a family tragedy.
// When I left college I tried to be a political illustrator, but I just couldn’t make ends meet. Then, at an exhibition of Guardian cartoonists I overheard the curator tell someone that some of their cartoonists struggled to pay their rent. It was at that point I decided to swap politics for good economics so I got a design job that paid.
// My career so far has taken me to LA, Las Vegas, Seattle, Calgary, Portland, Chicago, Beijing, Milan, Paris, Munich, Venice and a wind farm off the coast of Liverpool, in a small boat, in a gale. Other than that, the water has been fairly calm, blue, and full of fish.
// I came back to illustration through the back door… By working as an independent designer and creating the illustration work myself. I also had the help of branding agency Wordsearch who gave me multiple opportunities.
// I’m like a clown who wants to be taken seriously, or a serious actor armed with a water pistol.
// As an editorial illustrator I am mindful that I am working to capture only a moment of someone's attention. I have seconds to get a point across and to draw a person in. But I am also preoccupied with what happens beyond that briefest of cognitive windows, to whether an image can have an effect in the days, weeks, months that follow.
// When I left college I tried to be a political illustrator, but I just couldn’t make ends meet. Then, at an exhibition of Guardian cartoonists I overheard the curator tell someone that some of their cartoonists struggled to pay their rent. It was at that point I decided to swap politics for good economics so I got a design job that paid.
// My career so far has taken me to LA, Las Vegas, Seattle, Calgary, Portland, Chicago, Beijing, Milan, Paris, Munich, Venice and a wind farm off the coast of Liverpool, in a small boat, in a gale. Other than that, the water has been fairly calm, blue, and full of fish.
// I came back to illustration through the back door… By working as an independent designer and creating the illustration work myself. I also had the help of branding agency Wordsearch who gave me multiple opportunities.
// I’m like a clown who wants to be taken seriously, or a serious actor armed with a water pistol.
// As an editorial illustrator I am mindful that I am working to capture only a moment of someone's attention. I have seconds to get a point across and to draw a person in. But I am also preoccupied with what happens beyond that briefest of cognitive windows, to whether an image can have an effect in the days, weeks, months that follow.
// My illustrations are characterised by a desire to distil complex ideas and stories with wit and intelligent simplicity.
// Clients include //
The FT / Stern / Der Spiegel / Sunday Times Magazine / Die Zeit / The Economist / TIME magazine / GQ / The Guardian / The Observer Magazine / Forbes / Entrepreneur / New Statesman / Politico / The Washington Post / Berliner Zeitung / New Scientist / Journalisten / Barron's / New Internationalist / The New Republic / Radio Times / Prospect magazine / The Guardian Weekly / L'Express / Courrier International / Knack magazine (Belgium) / Focus Magazine (Germany) / Spectator World / Le Temps (Switzerland) / Noema / The Barbican / TimeOut London / Money Magazine / The Shard / Battersea Power Station / Psychologies magazine / Bulletin magazine / Amnesty International / Save the Children / The IMF and many more.
// Recent Coverage //
Fubiz:
We and the Color:
Creative Boom:
Digital Arts (interview):
'The Art of Protest':
My work for Amnesty International has been included in a this recent publication by Palazzo Editions.
Me and EU:
I illustrated a postcard as part of this protest project.
Creative Bloq:
Varoom magazine:
Featured work for the Barbican 'Colour of Money' film season campaign.
Also... My work has also featured in Design Week, Creative Review and Idea magazine.
