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Artwork collaboration – colour stages

As a birthday present towards the end of last year Folders Arrangements drew this image for me with ink on card, he indicated it had been inspired from drawings I had done previously. It was true that I felt a kindship with the drawing immediately. It was interesting to get back something that I felt I […]

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Alien Past Inside the Present – Simon Stålenhag (w/ Nigel Kneale, Strugatsky Brothers)

The books, stories and images of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag (b.1984) have certainly made an impact in the last decade, landing deep into the culture with their alluring and dreamy visions of retro-futural technologies in rural and other settings. What began as online paintings have subsequently found release in the form of books, a role […]

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Transforming the seen and unseen – Pic Pic, Sapphire and Steel, Magritte

Recently, this amazing cartoon was put my way by Barrow Wheelders. …and life is good again. Although I dose up a good amount with anime, its always a shock to come across something that simply makes play to an extraordinary degree, across its worlds of composition (and something completely unsullied by the depth of cynicism […]