So far ...

Well, here's the series so far. Ego, Flood, Stretch, Jam. There is another in progress 'Slurry' and then I think I am going to leave this lot for a while. I only write occasionally so generating the texts that these accompany is slow, besides I have a few other things I want to give some attention to, the afore mentioned photographic pieces and also I have been thinking about getting back so some very early ideas to do with landscape and geometry and how I might bring some of my landscapes together with my painting and drawing. Quite besides the commissioned illustration work! so little time.

Bye for now x

stretch

Latest in the series of images inspired by my writing. This one is accompanied by a very short musing I penned last year. Probably around this time last year, I can see a lake and three ponds from my studio window. Spring is a beautiful time, an eruption of life but there is also so much death.

'I hope your few days stretched out like sunny months to you'

was the line of text that resulted in this image. 

The egg like shape which fits neatly into the birth / life / death cycle was actually accidental in that I have had a nice oval antique wooden frame knocking around the studio which I wanted to use.


60 x 50 cm

19.7 x 23.6"

Bye for now x

Jam

I recently finished this piece which accompanies a piece of flash fiction I wrote a while back entitled Jam.

Mixed media.

11.7 x 14.9 "

More soon! bye for now x

@DarrenHopes

I have joined the flock of twitterers

https://twitter.com/darrenhopes

If my waffle here leaves you wanting then you can read more there!

Bye for now x

New Scientist - The Self

New Year, new job for New Scientist.

Not satisfied with making me question the nature of reality the guys at New Scientist are now asking does 'the Self' really exist as we think it does? lovely, I probably am not what I think I am in a universe that probably does not exist in the way I think it does, a universe that, I might tell you, could pop out of existence in favour of another one so I read.

I have done myself no favours by recently reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. Before I had a massive identity crisis I managed to create three illustrations for the magazine so here they are.

Right! I'm off to put my cat in a box.

Bye for now x

Telegraph - Cyber Stalker

Great start to the new year. Aside the longer job I am working on two new commissions form two of my favourite regulars, the Telegraph and New Scientist.

Three illustrations for the Telegraph to accompany an article about the poet and writer James Lasdun and his experience with a cyber stalker. In the article he discusses how his stalker set about destroying his reputation which he describes in his book Give Me Everything You Have.

Here's the main illustration which was a double page spread.

I will post the New Scientist pics soon.

Bye for now

AOI and Miroir Magazine

Happy New Year!

Still busy working on the project I mentioned a couple of posts back so no new work at the moment. Tweaking website and generally getting stuff sorted for this year.

In the meantime here are a couple of links to an interview at the AOI and a magazine feature that happened towards the end of 2012.

AOI Feature is here

and

Miroir magazine is here. Some of my slightly older photographic work. It is available in print and digital, if you can tear your gaze away from the beautiful Mark Ryden paintings my stuff is in the later pages.