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i've been pretty lazy with my camera this year. flickr has become merely an image host, & i've not adorned my new facebook account with photographic documentation of all my adventures. however, i'm still using instagram for capturing & sharing day-to-day things. above are some niceties from december (i promise i do more than food & shoegazing).

a portrait of our cooker for a few days. pasta, corn, fried eggs, veggie burgers & baked potatoes. thankfully alan actually knows what he's doing when it comes to campfires. our pillows smell of smoke.

moon face

if there had been an award for most impractical costume at the halloween party i went to, i'd undoubtably have won.

i'd wanted to turn my circle pattern into a notebook for a couple of months & i finally finished them. they turned out exactly as i'd hoped. it's nice when that happens.

i've gotten into the habit of posting peeks of projects on instagram but then not showing the final finished thing anywhere else. tsk. anyway, as a means of reminding myself of all the things i've done, i added a few projects to my website recently, as well as a few snapshots to dribbble. not everything i've worked on is everywhere, but that's okay. above is something i created for nilk festival in september, a day of beer & live bands at the botanic gardens in dundee, which also turned out to be the very last day of 2013 that i managed to sit outside with just a t-shirt on, eating ice cream. come back summer, i miss u.

studio

new ways of living (i)

the looking for trouble exhibition - mentioned in my last post - opened in nottingham today. at long last (& it really has felt like forever) i can post some new work online.

i produced a small body of work for the show, collectively titled new ways of living; the pieces are an illustrated exploration into the notion of simplicity in modern life. a hint at how convoluted things can get & perhaps a reminder to step back & evaluate. or something like that.

above is a piece titled haircut, an edition of twelve (because at the time of drawing it'd been twelve months since my last haircut) giclée prints. i'll be posting the rest of the work over this coming week.

sometimes i think about how bodies want to be sweaty & smelly & hairy & oily, & about how some of our daily routines try to achieve the opposite.

a new personal project: natural beauty. a comment on the concept of "natural beauty" being something you have to strive to achieve, rather than simply embracing what you've got. also an opportunity to use illustration as a means of saying something, which i don't do often enough (this is something that's been on my mind a lot lately). you can see the rest of the series & read more about it on my website.