Welcome to my virtual illustration portfolio.

The intention of this site is obviously to showcase my illustration. I have split the portfolio into subsections representing various areas of the industry that I have worked for, while including sections for unpublished work and Flash animations.

I have worked as a freelance illustrator for the last nineteen years since graduating from Central Saint Martins School of Art. Initially working with acrylic paint as my medium of choice I soon began to become interested in printmaking, particularly the textures that can spring from Lino and Woodcuts.

Eventually I realised that I could quite easily recreate what I was achieving with traditional methods by reassembling these textures as separate layers within Photoshop.

Despite a sense of guilt for abandoning the arts & craft traditions of printmaking in favour of digital means I am now certain that I was right to do so. I now have complete control over the illustration both in terms of colour & compositon. I can produce finished illustrations in a fraction of the time required for prints. Artwork can be emailed easily as high resolution JPEGs (the original Photoshop file remains unflattened on my hard drive ready for any changes required by the art director).