Instagram

I’ve now joined Instagram! Keep track of all my sketches and random pics (only 0.001% will be food I’m currently eating and/or cats).

http://instagram.com/mute_art

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Live Art Round Up

After a fair amount of time away from the live art scene, I've found myself getting back into the act of drawing and drinking in a pub for all to see! It’s great to be doing it again and always nice to get positive feedback while working on a piece. I've taken to using pencils and chalks to achieve the finished work as its pretty quick to use. Saves me the hassle of washing out my paint brushes in the gents toilets of a busy bar! Win!

Oct 31st 2012 The Forum, Sheffield

 Nov 30th 2012 The Forum, Sheffield

 Dec 17th 2012 SOYO, Sheffield

Feb 4th 2013 SOYO, Sheffield

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Paper Cuts Comes To An End

Another great exhibition at this year’s Celluloid Screams came to a close recently and I have to offer my thanks to everyone involved in helping me put it all together. First off, Rob Nevitt (festival organiser) for sharing my love for horror art and thinking it’s about time we started putting on our own shows to showcase what great local artist we have in the area! And of course all the artist involved in the show, I really couldn’t have been more impressed with the quality of work you guys produced.  The range of styles was certainly something I know went down really well with the festival goers, work ranged from pure graphic inspired takes on classic horror locations, through to paper collage and a bit of everything in-between.

The Showroom Cinema was once again a great host for the festival and exhibition - here’s hoping we’ll see their walls furnished by more horror art next year...

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Happy Halloween

Took it upon myself to give the new Sheffield Steel Rollergirls logo I designed a Halloween twist. I’d worked on a bride of Frankenstein remix of their older logo so I thought a witch theme would work well this time. 

More rollergirl work in the form of an original painting that will be raffled off for charity at the teams Goblin King Masquerade Ball. It was an opportunity to debut a new style I’ve been working away on in my sketchbooks. It was the first time I’ve taken one of these new sketches through to the acrylic stage and I’m pleased with the results. As for the pinball inspired background – a friend pointed out that THIS may have been on my mind...who am I to argue.

36.5cm x 54cm Arcylic on MDF

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Paper Cuts: Alternative Horror Poster Art

28th Sep – 31st Oct
Showroom Cinema, Sheffield

Well things are almost ready for the launch of this year’s Celluloid Screams art exhibition – this year the brief was to design an alternative poster for one the many great movies previously screened at a Celluloid Screams event.

Along with Rob Nevitt (festival organiser), I’ve been organising the show for the last couple of months. Most of the work is framed up ready for hanging and I have to say I’ve been really impressed with what the other artists taking part in the show have come up with. Each one of them has understood what we were going for with this year’s brief and I think the festival-goers are going to love them all!

Go check out the official festival page HERE and take a look at what an awesome weekend of horror movie viewing they’ve come up with!

The launch night is this Friday 28th Sep (Event Page HERE) so if you’re in the area be sure to pop down and check out the art (along with the artists).

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p.s. Bruce Campbell retweeted my Evil Dead piece for the show.....groovy!

Amber's Nectar

If you’re out searching for a thirst quenching beverage in Sheffield this month, look no further than a pint of Amber’s Nectar. The Sheffield Steel Rollergirls have teamed up with local brewery Blue Bee to produce a special beer that will be available in a selection of free houses in Sheffield during April. I was kindly invited to join the rollergirl on their visit to help brew Amber’s Nectar and it was great to see the processes involved (as well as the complimentary beer(s)!)

Check out a write up from Hand-Pumped Real Ale HERE.
Here’s a map showing where you can get yourself a pint of the good stuff.

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ShuLife Coverage

I was recently interviewed for the Sheffield Hallam Union magazine ShuLife and as a Hallam graduate I jumped at the chance. Big thanks to Jess Wilson for including me in the mag. Hard copies are available at Hallam but HERE'S an online version for those non-students.

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