Bunnies and raisins

Here's an illustration for the current issue of Red magazine, about how your life changes when you have children. Are those raisins next to the bunny, or something else?!

Family photos

My illustration for the May issue of Red Magazine, about those edited out family photos that you would rather nobody saw -  cabbage patch kids, jabba the hut, cauliflower ears and prisoner cell block H!

Family fitness illustrations

Some exercise illustrations created for Ebony Magazine for a feature on family fitness. 

6 out of 10?!

Rating your partner as a '6' out of 10 for attractiveness is definitely not to be advised, in fact Rosie Green describes is as relationship napalm! Illustration for the April issue of Red magazine about the minefield of marital rules of attraction. 

Illustration for Red Magazine

Happy new year! Hope you had a good break over the festive season. Here's a little illustration I did for the January issue of Red magazine. The article is a regular column written by Rosie Green called 'Life's Rosie'. This month's theme is over-politeness - compulsive courtesy, waving at strangers just in case you know them, and pretending to remember someone when you simply can't place them and end up overcompensating....!

Illustration for Nautilus Magazine

Here is my recent illustration for science magazine Nautilus, this month on the theme of waste. The story is about a prehistoric worm that lived in dinosaur faeces! The worm might have been a food source to our early ancestors during the great extinction, as it did not rely on sunlight to survive. I spent a happy few hours sketching dinosaur bones at the Natural history museum, but alas I could not find any actual fossilized poo, or indeed any pictures of the worm! So here is how I've imagined it, similar to an earthworm. You can read the article here. 

Illustrations for Oprah

Here are some illustrations I worked on for a feature about worrying for the October issue of 'O' (Oprah) magazine. They cover subjects as diverse as farting in yoga, superbugs and networking!

Hot Flushes illustration

Here is my recent piece for St Louis magazine about hot flushes. The article is amusingly written and in it the author describes a hot flush being like a sudden volcano erupting within her, heating up her face like molten lava. I enjoyed the visual this conjured up in my mind and tried to re-create it in my illustration. I had to include a fan and bucket of water in order to cool her down! 

Illustration for Food and Wine magazine

A duck with a flat cap, a pigeon in a headscarf and a swordfish with a walking stick?! Here's my recent illustration for Food and Wine magazine (USA) about Aging meat, which is out this month. The article is about bringing out the flavours of meat and fish by aging them in different ways. I wanted a fun, quirky take on the aging process, hence all the references to old age - walking sticks, slippers etc! 

Cover for Valore

I was asked to do this cover for Valore Alimentare magazine a day or so before I was due to go to Chile and Argentina, so it ended up being a bit of a mad rush to get it done, which always seems to happen when I'm about to go away somewhere! When I had finally got it done, the internet ended up crashing at the crucial moment and I had to leave it in the capable hands of my sister to sort out and send off whilst I jumped on the Heathrow Express! The illustration is about what to eat during the summer months, with the hat doubling as a kind of food wheel. 

Garden illustration

I recently created this illustration of a garden for Eating Well magazine. It was to accompany an article about a man who has created this amazing garden on his tenth floor roof terrace a few hundred yards from New York's Ground zero! Not quite sure how accurate my drawing is but I'm told it has all the elements pictured, including a cedar windbreak, grape arbor and plenty of fruit, vegetables and herbs.

Test piece for Brigitte

A little while ago I was asked to produce a test illustration for German women's magazine 'Brigitte'. The brief was to illustrate a well known phrase or saying about love, in this case 'We depend on our partner as a child on it's parents'. I had a couple of attempts at the image - the first idea was to draw a penguin couple because I thought it was a nice story of dependency - the male looking after the egg while the female looks for food, plus the egg is suggestive of the child which will then become dependent on it's parents. The second (more immediate and preferred idea) was of a bicycle made for two! 

New York Times

Here is a recent image about bilingualism which appeared in last Sunday's New York Times Sunday Review.

Work for Valore Alimentare

Here are a few recent images for Italian food magazine 'Valore Alimentare'. Themes are flour, sugar and yeast!