June 2025

Drawing on the summer solstice.
Projecting onto the back of my house.
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Sketchbook page turning No.20- Wells sketchbook June 2025
I found a lovely little notebook in the Somerset city of Wells and couple of weekends ago and filled it with drawings as I visited gardens and took…
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3:44
The Archive No. 20- Gormenghast character studies.
I have always wanted to illustrate Mervyn Peake’s masterpiece The Gormenghast Trilogy but have never been in the right place at the right time.
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Morning Drawings
I have collected the first 80 of my morning drawings into a book available from cyclingfish.bigcartel.com with an original drawing in each copy.
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2:38
Cycle by Eva Lunny
Drawing to music.
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7:06
Cycle.
Drawing to a piece by Eva Lunny.
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3:26
Drawing to music.
This song is called Amber and is by Eve Christina.
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3:26
The Archive No.19- Gulliver’s Travels in Lilliput.
This retelling of Gulliver’s Travels by Martin Jenkins includes all four of Gulliver’s journeys.
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Sketchbook page turning No.19- Cairo bound sketchbook from 2011.
Been gathering dust on my bookshelf, this is the first time in years I have looked inside this beautifully bound sketchbook from the bookbinders in the…
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6:09
The Archive No. 18- The Little Book of Big Freedoms
This is a book for children explaining the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Sketchbook page turning No. 18- A2 sketchbook from 2020.
The large pages of this sketchbook invite expansive drawings and expressive brush pen marks.
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5:58
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