Category: Illustration

‘We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.’
E.M. Forster. The Machine Stops.

An illustrated memory from 23rd Feb 2017 at The Broadway Theatre, Letchworth.

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When delivering projects within an organisation, watch out for red herrings and for the occasional purple haddock.

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Rough page layouts for a personal project. Project Moka.

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This 6ft x 2.5 foot canvas of Rhossili Bay, Gwent, Swansea, in Wales has been in development for some time. The photographs below show pencils, inks and the beginning of the acrylic painting.
Instagram video

Pencils then Inks

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Please mind the gap between your life and your dreams.
London Underground.

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My art group responded to a challenge to produce a piece of art based on the keyword ‘disrupt’. My solution was to draw a frog choosing to be what his fellow frogs might call ‘disruptive’ by not staying in their cauldron that was beginning to boil. Charles Handy in his book The Age of Unreason used the example of how frogs will behave in this situation for real to describe human behaviour and tolerance.

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A modern day view of the ‘Mr Men’. Mr Vape, Mr Fake Tan, Mr Energy Drinks and Mr Brexit.

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My art group responded to a challenge to produce a piece of art based on the keyword ‘diamond’. I struggled but arrived at drawing the character Satine, the ‘Sparkling Diamond’ of the Moulin Rouge.

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Train People: Needless Work
‘Remember it goes beyond WIP [Work In Progress]. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important that being able to put more into the system.’
BOOK – The Phoenix Project. A novel about IT, devops, and helping your business win. By Gen Kim, Kevin Behr, George Stafford.

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Train People: Once you see an idea.
‘I’ve sat through too many “crying in the beer’ sessions where all of the energy for change was dissipated in the intensity of the complaining. Once you see an idea for improvement that makes sense to you, do it.’
BOOK – Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck.

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My art group responded to a challenge to produce a piece of art based on the keyword ‘disfigure’. This image came into my head.

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The London commuter sleeps having consumed the content of his free evening newspaper.
On this historic evening while parliament votes on Article 50/Brexit, he has been provided a diet of 2 critical [front page] news items. 1) Police my use ‘green’ cars; 2) Johnny Depp once spent $30k per month on wine.

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Project Brexit is seemingly progressing without a detailed plan or any plan at all. At best, our government is perhaps taking an agile and lean approach, progressing iteratively, initially with a light plan focussed on more immediate tasks based on emerging requirements that will mature along the way. This would be commendable if we were building a new product but we are not! Project Brexit is an infrastructure replatform of huge scale and no sane professional Project or Programme Manager or enterprise would progress a replatform of any size without a detailed plan shared with stakeholders. This feels utterly mind boggling naive and irresponsible.

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Platform One at Hertford North station. I waited here late at night for a connecting train as my earlier one was cancelled because the driver was taken ill on the previous journey. I hope he’s feeling better now.

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Train People: Ghost Train
Your train no longer exists. My train is being taken out of service yet again en route before getting me home.
Why is the app reporting the train as cancelled and never ran when I’ve been on it until now?

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Hertfordshire Bramble Gin/Vodka. This is relates to a drawing I shared last autumn.
31.5% Handmade from blackberries foraged in Walkern and Aston during September/October 2016. Gin: Made from 5 botanical gin. Vodka: Made from pure grain spirit.

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Train People: The Message. It’s like a jungle sometimes; it makes me wonder how I keep from going under.

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Dry January. Due to the pressures of work, I’m considering a wet, wet, wet January. In support of my approach Marti Pellow turned up with a violin and a bottle of vodka.

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Train People: The Free Tabloid Junkie. I must make sure I read all of this crap and look at all of the pictures and headlines so I can share exactly the same dumbed down thoughts and opinions as my co-workers today.

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These are my Instagram posts in 2016 that have acquired the most likes.
Thank you. I wish you all a very best for 2017.

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