Museum of Everything

Due to overwhelming public demand, Exhibition #3 at the Museum of Everything will re-open for 5 more weeks. It's well worth making the trip to Primrose Hill for a glimpse at Sir Peter Blake's private collection of curios. A personal favourite was a room of embroideries by Ted Willcox (2nd image).

Top Image of Sir Peter Blake by Uma Jovita Valaityte

Candy Cane

Work in progress snaps of new work for Candy Cane, including collaborative tea towels with Joanna Rucklidge. Candy Cane Fair is on this Saturday 27th November at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, 10 to 4 pm. All are welcome.

Smitten

Kate Spade mittens and stunning painted stairs at the London pop up shop.

Until November 10th.

Cards at Pelicans and Parrots

Pelicans and Parrots is a new vintage shop in London's Dalston. It's the place to head to if you're after some wall-mounted antlers, a Printclub screenprint, an original 1950's settee, a carnival feather headdress or one of my hand printed cards.

Istanbul - Windows

Reminds me of Ensor Holiday's mathematic research into the recurrence and links between certain geometric designs found all over the world. As mentioned in my blog last year.

Istanbul - Sihirli Daireler

Most of us know it as Spirograph, but many Istanbul street vendors sell little sets packaged as Sihirli Daireler (Magic Circles). One of the said street vendors takes the credit for the bottom two pics. These magic patterns never fail to amaze me.

Istanbul sketchbook

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I've just returned from an inspiring trip to Istanbul.

My holiday read was Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk. There is a whole chapter devoted to Hüzün, the Turkish word for Melancholy. He writes- "hüzün, which denotes a melancholy that is communal rather than private. Offering no clarity; veiling reality instead, hüzün brings us comfort, softening the view like the condensation on a window when a tea kettle has been spouting steam on a winter's day."

falling

Top image from flickr via ffffound

Bottom image by the art collective Gelatin at Galerie Meyer Kainer via I'm Revolting

Hot Summer

I've been working on some interesting commercial animation projects over the summer (which are still under wraps) This collection of images aims to capture the unusually hot summer we're having here in London.

The 4th image features a postcard of Amber Mattress by Rachel Whiteread.

Army Learning, Different Class

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A few months back I worked as part of the team doing cell animation at Why Not Associates on these promos for COI/British Army. Illustration by Alan Baker.

They are now on air.