Last Party

The year in Bangkok was a wonderful experience. I'm back in London for the summer. I'll get a new online journal up soon but this is The Last Scene In Siam.

Thank you for watching.

The Continuing Summer School Party

Paper airplane
Practising drawing stars. 
Paint!
Write!
Hands, Fingers & Thumbs. 

Summer School Party

Summer school has started. I have a class of three five year old boys. Here are some projects I've been doing with my students...


We made Teepees...





Star Wars gets a mention, as does Kung Fu Panda and Superman but Batman is the favourite. We made batman masks.


I have to ration Batman colouring pages as they would like to colour in every single black and white Batman there is in the world.

V Party

The V Word Zine

Cake in the clouds Party

My 'Modern Physics / Eye Glass' featured here. Someone buy it. Please. Tell you what, if you're reading this and you want it, it's yours. I'll trade it for cake. Or gum.

Kids Party

Illustrations for a children's book.






So sickly sweet I can hardly bear to put pencil to paper.

Prosthetic Party

I have been working on the computer to build up a portfolio and my hand is turning into a claw due to using the mouse for 15 hours a day.



Perhaps I should put that bid in for the robotic arm after all. And fashion some kind of hook in the interim...

Telephone Party

I am sketching on a piece of canvas for a new painting. in the bottom left of the picture there should be a telephone receiver. So I'm using my telephone reciver as a model. The one in the painting should look like it belongs in an 1980s New York kitsch 'boudoir' (Whatever the hell that is.) But it my phone looks as though it was taken from an abandoned German office block in the mid 90s. An annoying beeping noise started after I left it off the hook for a while. To stop it, I have rested a pot of PVA glue on the cradle.

Postal Service Party

I've started a mail-art project with my friends. Or at least I'm forcing them to be a part of it by sending unsolicited art through the postal service and telling them that they are now a part of the project and cannot escape.

You can join in the Rhukha Mail Art Project
too if you send me your address in an email.

Cut and Paste Party

I'm making a behind-the-scenes zine for the Bangkok Production of The Vagina Monologues. However, since putting my computer in the shop to get it 'fixed' it's crashed every time I open a picture file. Oh dear, but it's difficult not to feel endeared to those pale techies who so rarely see the light of day at windowless Pantip. Maybe I'll have to hand-write the zines, or perhaps commission them for a robotic arm...

Team Party

I've started an online group for arts and crafts in Thailand.

Photo Party

I'm trying to get an exhibition in Bangkok of photographs I took in South Korea.



The Rotunda Gallery at the Neilson Hayes wrote to me, so maybe I'll have an exhibition there in '09.

Music Party

My graphics have been used in the Christmas issue of Maps Magazine.
You can see the backgrounds here:
Maps Index
Maps feature

Painting Party

A detail of a painting I did for my father for a Christmas present.

Physics Party

Modern Physics hanging home decorations.

On a trip to Chinatown I found fresh water pearls and australian crystal. To make these hanging sculptures I interlaced metal wire with white cotton thread. I wrapped the frame with linen and intertwined it with metal chain.



I have some 'blood red' paper roses and 'black diamond' crystals I'd like to use for the next ones.

Resting, after party.

I have started a series of paintings entitled 'The Science of Sleep'.In preparation I took photographs and sketches of a resting body.



Working with a very light colour palette in watercolour I chose pinks and greys, peaceful colours. The paintings incorporate daubs of gold leaf to represent a slipping of the conciousness into something secret and precious.

Art Party

Photographs of my students' work and my summer as lead visual arts teacher at the international summer school camp.