Notes from the sketch book

"Dear Billy, I don’t even know if you can hear this. Ever since you left, everything’s been a total disaster. For a while, we tried to be happy, normal. I know that’s impossible" 37 years after her first number one in the UK with Wuthering Heights Kate Bush took the number one spot again in June 2022. A surge in popularity of her 1985 Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) following its appearance in season 4 of Stranger Things (more of that later) and becoming a huge Tik Tok favourite with Generation Z. (A Deal With God) is...

One more Day until the Journey is completed and we make it to Luds Church the location of The Green Knight's Chapel......   It all started last year when we happened to watch The Green Knight starring Dev Patel and based on the 14th Century poem. The story describes how Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, accepts a challenge from a mysterious "Green Knight" who dares any knight to strike him with his axe if he will take a return blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts and beheads him, at which the Green Knight...

“You Are At The End Of Your Quest, Gawain. A Little Sooner Than You Expected, Perhaps. But Such Is The Case For Us All.” In 2021 a movie based on a 14th-century poem was released the epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, THE GREEN KNIGHT tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel), King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. It's a journey to define his character and prove his worth in the eyes of his family and...

It all started last year when we happened to watch The Green Knight starring Dev Patel and based on the 14th Century poem. The story describes how Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, accepts a challenge from a mysterious "Green Knight" who dares any knight to strike him with his axe if he will take a return blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts and beheads him, at which the Green Knight stands, picks up his head, and reminds Gawain of the appointed time. The 2021 film was awesome, very bizarre but loved it and...

“I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete.” Well, its the end of the Star Wars collection and we finish on a portrait of Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi. I have enjoyed sharing the Star Wars-related art but that will be the last of it for the foreseeable future as I move on to do some more obscure work and will be doing some painting over the next few months. I might release some of the t-shirt art ( AT-AT, Droids, That's No Moon) as lino print at some point, but I...