Writer | Presenter | Artist
October 2020 – seems like an age ago… but it was possible to do things! In a socially distanced way. I was delighted to host an event for Rock n Roll Bookclub E17 talking to Pete Paphides about his fantastic music memoir Broken Greek which details growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s. The book […]
Read moreI was delighted to be asked onto BBC Front Row on the 19th August to talk about the exhibition Love, Art, Loss: The Wives of Stanley Spencer at the Spencer Gallery in Cookham, discussing the show with Samira Ahmed. Spencer is one of my favourite artists and I have visited the gallery many times, but never […]
Read moreYou can catch it here, should you wish. The Yoko Ono Fierce Women show is still on iPlayer, and it was great to be able to walk about her, as shes such a hero of mine. “Yoko Ono is the ultimate outsider. Whether as an artist, musician or peace activist, her anti-conformist attitude has inspired […]
Read moreNew! The Alexandra Palace virtual Big Schools project is now live. From 1-10 July there’ll be Ally Pally is “bringing together industry experts with a wealth of experience and knowledge of sustainability practices working in the Film, Media and Gaming Sector” for kids from years 5-7. I was chuffed to be asked to draw illustrations […]
Read moreNew! Due to the coronavirus situation, the Alexandra Palace Children’s book awards event was cancelled – bah – but lots of resources are now online including BEES colouring in and Artists’ Challenge – how to design a book cover. The main page is here with lots of rather good challenges from the nominated authors too. […]
Read moreHello there. If you’re a bit bored and want to listen to some music from 1999/2000 here’s just the thing. Siân and Dylan – who’d been in Oval on St Etienne’s label Icerink – formed a band called 100% Ponies. We did all the stuff and worked on Ataris using Cubase and using samples. […]
Read moreHello there – hoping you are staying well and keeping indoors. I’m eating biscuits and making really odd soup. Is anyone really bored yet? If you or someone you know in your household needs to do some colouring in, I’ve put some of the Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week etc Agatha Bilke book […]
Read more“Changes Wrought on our Hometown” Am talking postcards with comedy writer and performer Ben Moor on Tom Jackson’s excellent Podcast from the Past, out now. From my light stalking of Alan Bennett, to Ben’s own Moor and a very exciting hotel “restroom”, it’s all here.
Read moreA lovely commission was the tale of ‘Castor and Pollux’ – drawing ten black and white illustrations to sit alongside a poem and printed them up as a limited edition birthday book – just one copy. Here are some of the drawings. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”16″ gal_title=”Bespoke Books”] Other commissions include prints as gifts. A selection is […]
Read moreThere’s always new art at raw-art.co.uk. The Ten years of Raw Art exhibition on during October 2019 had lots of oil paintings with people with eyes on their noses due to a fascination with the photoshop “heal” brush. The show took place at the very good Atom Gallery in London N16 and you can now […]
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