As I slowly wake up to a new year, dodging cold snaps in the studio, I’m looking ahead - past this rainy, gloomy, squirrelled away bit - to some of the exciting projects I have coming up in the months ahead...
I have several new paintings working away on the studio wall to be included in SALON’s new design showcase with Alice B Davies in early spring and am eagerly awaiting the release of Mafruh Ahmed & Worms Magazine’s recipe book that I absolutely loved illustrating.
I am also gathering my favourite sketchbook pages for an exciting Partnership Editions Drop in late spring which will focus on my sketchbooks and I’ll be releasing a limited edition of homewares in the Summer.
I also have some top secret, exciting new kitchen drawings underway that I can’t wait to share as well as a new Troupe wine label and a big drawing I made with Vitsœ about the intricate process of creating their products!
Projects almost always start in my sketchbook where I make plans and studies to inform my illustrations.
Here is an example with sketches made for Troupe’s wine labels in the vineyards of Mosel, Germany and Grossriedenthal, Austria that I then made into the final 360* artwork to wrap around the bottles.
I have a big page of all of my projects HERE!
This painting is called Quiet Study, Resting Now. I made it this month in a moment of quiet detachment in the studio, I made this little study and just know it’s one of my favourites ever.
Would you rather? with Sophie Bass
(who shares a studio with me and is braving this January in it also!)
What’s your favourite way to eat potatoes? Roast potatoes please! Cut up nice and small and roasted high for a long time with olive oil, turmeric and salt. So they’re all deliciously crunchy and golden.
What recipe do you cook for your loved ones? My go to would be a big Trini feast; macaroni pie, curry shrimp and bodi beans, pineapple chow and a scotch bonnet coleslaw, accompanied by nutmeg rum punch and tequila shots. I cooked this for my friends on New Year’s Eve just gone… one of them ate so much he had to go to bed and barely made it to midnight!
What do you cook when you’re sick? Buttery bagel with good cottage cheese and honey. And ice lollies!
What is studio lunch? Lunch is normally leftovers, little tupperwares and jars filled with salads, cheeses, dips and fun bits. Failing that, I’m obsessed with cully and sully tomato soup.
(who shares a studio with me and is braving this January in it also!)
What’s your favourite way to eat potatoes? Roast potatoes please! Cut up nice and small and roasted high for a long time with olive oil, turmeric and salt. So they’re all deliciously crunchy and golden.
What recipe do you cook for your loved ones? My go to would be a big Trini feast; macaroni pie, curry shrimp and bodi beans, pineapple chow and a scotch bonnet coleslaw, accompanied by nutmeg rum punch and tequila shots. I cooked this for my friends on New Year’s Eve just gone… one of them ate so much he had to go to bed and barely made it to midnight!
What do you cook when you’re sick? Buttery bagel with good cottage cheese and honey. And ice lollies!
What is studio lunch? Lunch is normally leftovers, little tupperwares and jars filled with salads, cheeses, dips and fun bits. Failing that, I’m obsessed with cully and sully tomato soup.
