The music of David Bowie has always been important throughout my life and music has always been a vital part of my creative process and artwork. I am always listening to music when drawing and David Bowie was one of the first musicians that I remember truly liking. His music and his various stylistic changes have always resonated with me as I have grown up. This includes his
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.” – Alice Walker This tree is either an abstraction of form or it is perfectly manicured. A tree to be pondered upon if sculpted by nature or manipulated by human hands. Perfectly imperfect. Near spheres, looking like the cosmos extrapolated. All these trees growing in the Ink Forest have been drawn by hand and then scanned and cleaned up
The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein Once there was a tree… and she loved a little boy. And every day the boy would come, and he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and play king of the forest. He would climb up her trunk and swing from her branches and eat apples. And they would play hide-and-go-seek. And when he was tired, he would sleep
“A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.” – George Nakashima Caught in the twirling winds, the limbs and foliage of the Foamcrest Tree churn, bubbling and rolling like waves dragged across a sandy shore. Its enormous trunk is anchored to the Earth but above its leaves never stop moving in the ceaseless breeze of a placid night. This is the drawing, the first tree, Tree
Mäusebunker or the Research Institutes for Experimental Medicine was planned in 1971 and completed in 1981 as a purpose built facility for animal experimentation. The construction of the building ballooned from 4 million to 126 million Deutsche marks and opened to a general dislike from the public because of it’s grim purpose and the cold, evil aesthetic of this brutal, monolithic laboratory. It has opened and closed multiple
Scavengers Reign is an animated show which came out in the last year. It follows a ground of astronauts that have crash landed on an unexplored planet and abandoned by the company that has sent them into the deep reaches of space. Separated and facing individual challenges of survival, the remaining crew members are trying to get back to the crashed mothership in hopes to find a way
This is the story of an Australian schoolboy named Paul and his mystic journey into the Australian outback with his aboriginal guide Kuwana. Kuwana teaches Paul about the relationship in nature that all things including the plants and animals share. This is a journey into the unknown where Paul learns about the balance of all things and discovers that all plans and creatures participate in together. Normally my
One day Rose and I were wondering around without a plan but to just explore. We came across a garden colony which is a community of small plots of land and all have tiny unique little gardens and houses. They are found all over Germany but the one we visited that day is one of the largest in the country. Kolonie Sonnenbad occupies an area that is about
These two pieces of art were created for the Berlin crew and label Mega Buff which hosts a variety of interesting events. From a nearly weekly DJ set, live streamed from the Mega Buff Mansion (DJs play sets filled with anything from UK garage, house, breakbeat, electro, jungle to funk and hip-hop and everything in between) to hosting parties, including one I went to in an old, unused
https://youtu.be/4QwhGAN-ohM?si=ndjypVVbJTxJ4qVT This is a logo for a Melbourne-based artist, Leopard Snail, who creates jewellery inspired by her childhood. She creates pieces out of classic children’s toys such as LEGO and crayons. For the logo, I was asked to create a greyscale design suitable for printing on business cards. Andy then hand-paints colour onto the snail on each business card, gifting her customers a unique piece of her art