Woofer

Peepshow at Monster Truck

My entry for Peepshow, an exhibition of erotic art at Monster Truck Gallery. Etching, 16 x 20cm.

Wrestler

Been hitting the lino lately. It's much faster to complete now that I have the etching press.

Breast Health awareness leaflet

Monoprints for Kubrick show

A couple of monoprints made for a show in the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield. I'll only be showing the top one.

The Black Sketchbook

Absolut Original embroidery

Now showing in town here:

The Red Sketchbook

I travelled around the world for ten months in 2005. I kept a few sketchbooks of the trip, making portraits of some of the people I met. Approaching people in parks, on trains and trams, people in bars, people I was teaching English to, fellow travelers, it wasn't hard to get people to sit for a while. This is one of the books I kept, an Indian pad of handmade paper.

Duchess

Guinness beermats

I painted 33 Irish pubs for this Guinness beermat campaign. That's a LOT of painting...

Vampires

Frankenstein, Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker

Polidori

Alice and the Hatter

Monoprints 2

monoprints

Petria

January etchings

Bob and Bob

Jimi

Monkey batman

Cambodian etching

New etching

First hard ground etchings

Etchings

War artist

These were for a recent pitch that never happened. Sometimes being an illustrator feels like being in World War One: you're asked to go way over the top, only to get shot down.

Boom boom.

Linocuts

Candy Karaoke

Brown paper sketches 3

In progress

Brown paper sketches

I spent the evening drawing these: each is about five foot tall. Nice to go large again.

Oddness

Sweeney Among The Nightingales

The previous Menagerie image reminded a friend of the character Sweeney, of Irish folk tale fame, which then reminded me of Sweeney Among The Nightingales by TS Eliot. The description of animal markings fitted nicely with my first sketch, so I thought it would be fun to flesh him out a little.

"Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to maculate giraffe."

Sketchbook project

This is my first entry for one of a series of sketchbooks that I've sent to 36 illustrators around Ireland. So far I've just been managing the project, but now I get to join in! It's a simple idea: ten sketchpads, each with a different theme, circulating by mail amongst the group. Each book comes with stamps and addresses: you receive it, make your entry and post it on to the next person. We're hoping it'll build into something quite nice at the end, even if only a small show and a glass of wine. Unfortunately three books have already gone missing - but that's the risk you take with this kind of project. Anyway, we have some extremely talented people contributing, so I have high hopes for it. Go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/64092812@N00/ to view the work so far.