Becoming a bit of a thing, updating my linkedin image when I finish a gig. Following lock down isolation its now all about a beard and long hair, and binge watching Tron Uprising on Disney+.

Something I enjoy more than anything else is volunteering to do the St Jude’s school play scenery. I did Alice in Wonderland for my eldest daughters Year Six production and this year was lucky enough to do The Lion King for my youngest. St Jude’s were amazing and despite all the extra difficulties of COVID the school decided to go ahead with the end of year school play. Miss McLeash wrote an adaptation of the Lion King, and I got busy with papier-mâché and acrylic paints.

For many years I have wanted to create a lightweight modular bookcase. Having researched lots of different approaches, I settled on a simple design, of 10mm bent wire frames to support 18mm birch plywood shelves. The idea being to line a bedroom wall with shelves to hold momentos and knick knacks and possibly a few books.

I have alway tried not to have my photo on the internet, and so have over the years experimented with various styles of illustration for my ‘profile’ image which is often required when you register to a site. It is also fun to do.

A portrait of my friends Andrew and Hugue who run an amazing holiday let at Casale Monticchio in Umbria. I was thinking about figurative British painting in the sixties and seventies, and had got them to pose in the style of the American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) from 1968 by David Hockney.

Following the platform bed, I wanted to explore building a modular bookcase system. It is designed to fill an entire wall 3600mm wide and 2400mm high in my house. Again its CNC cut plywood that I drew out in Illustrator and had cut out of 18mm birch plywood.

St Judes Year Six always puts on an end of year play. It’s a perfect way to celebrate the student finishing primary school, and makes a break from SATs. This year it was a musical Alice in Wonderland. My daughter volunteered me to help out with the scenery.