Hair today, gone tomorrow..

A tale of two habits

From a piece of poetry by Andrew Melhuish

Once upon a time there was a couple

who could no longer afford their addiction

so decided to make their own drugs

out of each other.

He took a strand of her hair and pressed the

end

to a vein on the inside of his elbow.

The hair was sucked inside and he fell asleep.

She ran her nails up and down the the dry skin of

his face

and piled the flakes on the kitchen table.

Dividing the pile into a few narrow lines she

breathed in

every bit of him

and sat awake for the rest of her life

waiting for his eyes to open

Ladies who lunch

I've been reading lots of stuff by Colette and Evelyn Waugh, and I cycle through the cheesecake labyrinth that is Mayfair daily, so this inspired my piece.. Drawn from old photos in a book of 1920s fashion.

Harewood House

I didn't draw the building in the end.

'tis the season

Illustration for an invite for Organised Chaos theatre company

Elizabethan duck-babies

I came across the original image on an ace tea tray advertised in the times.

Had to redraw it. Wolf Hall meets Farthing Wood Friends. Ink and crayon.

postcards

Recently commissioned to design a business package and postcards for theatre company Organised Chaos Each card is an illustration from a different play that they have produced, using each colour from the corporate logo.