Friday, 13 April 2012

The Battle of Barnet 1471

The Battle of Barnet was fought on the morning of Easter Day 14 April 1471. The armies fought across the heath in thick fog & heavy gunsmoke of artillery. In the ensuing four hours of fighting much confusion reigned & battle lines wheeled around a 45 degree axis. Eventually with the Lancastrian army in disarray the Earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker, was cut down.
  












Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Suicide.



Harrowdown Hill in Longworth, Oxfordshire. The location where the body of Dr. David Kelly was found in 2003. 
Drawing done for Book 1 'Fact and Fiction in a Digital Context' for the department of MA Communication Art & Design, Royal College of Art.
ISBN 978-1-907342-37-0

Friday, 30 March 2012

Hell House: Drawing fictitious locations of hauntings.





Two drawings from a series depicting fictitious locations of haunted houses in Horror films.

Sunday, 26 February 2012

Gaius Petronius Arbiter


Gaius Petronius Arbiter (ca. 27-66 AD) was described by Tacitus as the elegantiae arbiter in the court of Emperor Nero.

Saturday, 3 December 2011

Redundant in a Landscape

Walking along sections of the Cromford canal, near the village of Jacksdale in Nottinghamshire. The canal was used to transport coal to factories by narrowboat, but became redundant when the railway was built. The area is heavily overgrown but dotted amongst this landscape are architectural relics of an industrial past.