I live in Rickmansworth. It isn’t really fair to call it my motherland; I just couldn’t resist the alliteration! I might not have been born or brought up here, but I have been living here for a good few years now and am kinda attached to it. In fact, the townspeople seem to like having me here too, as every May, they get together and celebrate ‘Ricky Week’!
At Ricky Week a couple of years back, the church at the bottom of my street opened its tower to the public, so Lilly and I went up there as it offered a nice view over our village. While we were up there, I overheard an older fella muttering about how the village has been ruined by all the modern architecture.
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I have a T-Shirt design up for voting on Threadless! Yes, this is my first design that has actually made it to the voting stage, and now it needs all the help it can get.
It’s such a happy horse- why wouldn’t you want to see it on a T-Shirt? If it walked into a bar, the bartender wouldn’t ask ‘why the long face?’. It’s that happy!
I really wanted to submit this for a kid’s T-Shirt design, but I couldn’t see a way to do that independently. If you grown-ups like it though, great! Wouldn’t it make you smile if you saw someone walk past you with him on their chest?!
Please vote for it, especially if you like it! Get all your friends and all your enemies to vote too! Yeah!
A happilly French robot, who is bendy, but perhaps not as flexible as the Maître d’ from The Triplets of Belleville?
Ahoy! I can’t believe it’s been three months since I last wrote anything here. Wow. I guess, as they say, time flies when you’re having fun. A lot has happened in the past quarter, I have had my hand in a few more albums and singles, I turned 21 and I took a trip to the other side of the world! Whoosh!
I have managed to keep the main site relatively updated in the mean time, even if I haven’t wrote on here, so there is new stuff to see. well here is a handful of stuff, some commissioned, some not.
New wallpapers! The first being a diagram of how rain is made.
This is probably one of my favourite pieces of work from the past few months. It’s a pastiche of Hokusai’s Great Wave, which I know is hardly an original idea, but it was too appropriate for the titles of the single the art was for. Besides I had fun doing it! Here’s a closeup of some of the detail in my version too 
Here is a dabbling in mixing illustration with photography, named Suburban Takeover.
I managed to acquire a wide-format printer for a few weeks in July, so I used it to run off some posters and a few canvases. I have a selection of stuff waiting to be sold too, but to be honest I don’t see myself getting organised enough to do that in the near future. I’m intending on putting a page up at some point in the future listing what I have waiting to be homed by you, but in the mean time, anyone seriously interested can email me for a bit more info. Anyway, one of the posters I came up with is the Pasta Wallchart:
The last thing I have to mention for the time being is that I got a new camera – my first dSLR! I’m enjoying the freedom that’s offering me, and I joined flickr, as that seems to be the done thing by anyone who likes taking photos, though I have to say I don’t understand it completely yet. I thought it was going to be a bit more public and would offer me lots of people looking at my photos to potentially offer me constructive criticism, as I don’t think my photos are very good yet. Anyway, If you use flickr too, I would be delighted if you did whatever you do on flickr and start talking about my photos or something.
OK, the last thing I’ll leave you with for now is this character. Avast!