Category: Journal

Came back to an older piece, Haunt. A geometric relief worked in greyscale, cubes stacked and shifting depending where you stand.

Framed it properly this time and put it back up on a wall to see how it holds now.

A small blue form with a pair of eyes, set down into the moor grass and left to the weather. Buried in the peaks, and half taken back by the hillside already.

Went over to Electrik in Chorlton to look at the room, thinking about a show. Booths, low light, art already on the walls and a bar running through the middle of it.

The kind of place where work can sit among people having a drink rather than behind glass. This was the visit that turned into the first Attic Archive.

A night at the Golden Lion in Todmorden. Jazz to Jungle, Moderate Sounds with Kev Original and guests. Starting slow and ending up somewhere a good deal faster.

A sign for the spring fayre at Flash village hall. A board and a cut-out rabbit, stood out on the roadside to bring people up the hill. The same village as the flag.

Once Upon a Flag, a project with Flash Village Hall. The idea was a village flag designed by the people of Flash, drawn from their own stories.

This is the identity for it. A badge with the hall, a flag on a pole, and the tools people would use to make their own, set over the hills.

There is more to this one than fits here. I will build it out as a proper case study once I have the rest of the images together.

An old uPVC conservatory was coming off the back of a house, and the windows and doors were still sound. Too good for the tip, so they came out whole to be used again.

Up on the hill they went back together as a greenhouse. A timber frame built around the salvaged panels, glass on every side, set on a course of old stone.

It catches the valley now, and the sun going down behind the hills. Nothing bought new that could be found instead.

For a while I was looking into block printing from the home studio. This was part of that, a pattern drawn up in Fusion so it could be cut as a printing block.

The design is all interlocking curves, the kind of repeat that carries on in every direction. The idea was to mill it, ink it and pull prints from it by hand. I did not take it much further in the end, but I liked where it was heading.

Christmas cards for family and friends. The tree on the front is a real one, the one at the back of our house that leans over and looks a bit stupid.

I drew it in pixels and kept the lean, kept it sparse, put a few baubles on it and a star on top. Merry Christmas set in the same blocky lettering. A card that really only makes sense if you have seen the tree.

A logo worked up as a set of layered shapes. A magenta circle on the outside, a stepped ring inside it, an eight-pointed star, and a seven-sided centre in green.

It is put together the way I build most marks, geometry stacked up until it holds and still reads at a small size. The grain over the top keeps it from feeling too clean, with the colour doing most of the work.