Altona

These are the kind of drawings i have been making for myself lately , these and one more will feature in the new Laugh it off manual. I start each drawing by finding a place i am not familiar with or places that an audience might find unfamiliar, I then construct my own description of a scene that takes place there.

These places range from capitals to blocks of flats.

Helsinki

And every occasion ill be ready for the funeral every occasion once more its called the funeral

Spineless paragraph

This a drawing/ collage for the what if the world exhibition.

Haiti: the graphic novel

Haiti

These are stills from a story i have drawn. the story revolves around a four armed thief whose one arm is withered and useless this defect has forced him outside of his society.
He lives on the fringe and concots dark experiments and finally he gets into trouble for them.

wo bist du

this entry is pretty random and very different to the normal stuff i post.
It's about the day little guy ( a minature doberman ) ran away from me, he came back an hour later

blackened bones

Golden Pharmacies and Doomed Fools

Lately the focus of my drawing and thinking has revolved around gardeners and pharmacists as symbols of control and order.
I am currently molding these two symbols into my narrative painting. In the previous post Glass neck is a red giant who has been built by a pharmacist, through medicine to be big and strong. I am trying to describe the pharmacist through his influence on the world, how his medicine changes it and what it builds.
The gardener on the other hand has to keep nature in check maintain a balance.
I am trying to make these two figures represent control through creation of something unnatural (like medicine) and the creation of a controlled enviroment through destruction (gardening).
The pictures above are what has influenced my investigation into the Gardener and the pharmacist. I feel that the simple story present in these images carries the base ideas which i am going to develope through the Gardner and the Pharmacist.

Glass necks

Glass neck and Fuul

fallen trunks

more frozen giants, with faint drawing of their queen in the bacground.

trunk giants

This is a frozen giant being excavated from a fallen tree. he is still sleeping.

skull finder

These are some scans i made today of some of the sketches and ideas that i have been putting in my sketch pad. I am going to try and finish my body of work this year and exhibit it at the end of this year or perhaps early next year. I have finaly realised what i want the over all ruling concept of my work and thesis to be. I will tell you more once i have actually written my seminar paper and have made more work to illustrate the ideas i have been working on.

Mr Blobby

Here are some random images from my studio, the porcelin blob is a muse of mine.

Red pool

Photos of the mess i call my studio, you can see that iam progressively eating up all the space with little framed watercolour paintings.
The other two images are redpool and a house i painted on a old broken piece of wood.

In In my recent paintings i have been playing around with nocturnal events and characters and contrasting these with the following days events, These paintings are about a head which spent it's night breaking trees and the discovery of the aftermath by a boy in a halloween costume. Inside the broken tree is a letter i am currently planing a follow up to that painting. The other painting with the boy in it shows a cluster of heads deformed by sunlight , during the day the heads shrink and become lethargic. They are primarily active at night and need rest during the day when night returns they resume their activities.