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After hunting unsuccessfully for an original poster advertising Miles Davis's Manchester Free Trade Hall show in September 1960, I remembered that I'm a graphic designer, so just created one.

Blue Note records were the epitome of cool jazz in the 1950s and 60s. So, I thought I'd ruin that reputation by creating some unlikely releases for middle-of-the-road, easy listening artists, such as Mrs Mills, Val Doonican, James Last and Des O'Connor.

I haven't posted for a while, so I'm playing catch-up. I got a little obsessed with late-19th century theatre poster designs, so, for reasons that now elude me, I created an Eraserhead poster in that style.

Frankly, I don't what possessed me, but I decided to recreate 1970s cinema intermission screens as vector graphics with the rule that...

Painting exercise. 'Dial B for Bacon'. A portrait of Alfred Hitchcock in the style of Francis Bacon.

A painting of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) in the style of Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

A self-portrait in the style of Peter Blake.

Aiming for that 1940s, noir look (with my office lamp as the only light source). "The Black Sunflower Murders" "The Day the Sun Turned...

From a photo reference, chosen mainly because I liked the greenish skin tone palette.

Is it too late for me to become a mid-century commercial artist who illustrates cheap, pulp paperbacks and lurid magazine covers? Process...

Testing out the Nikon P1100's fully manual capabilities.

I couldn't sleep, so whiled away the early hours finishing off this linocut style selfie.

I'm a bit obsessed with late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean woodcuts and engravings at the moment, so began designing my own signet...

Grainy, gritty, ghostly Sunday morning sketch.

As an experiment, I sampled often-used colours from several Caravaggio paintings and used them to paint this. Naturally, the result is a...

Still life. In more ways than one... I painted it for entry in a local art exhibition (but it was not accepted).

I've been reading a lot about William Shakespeare and late-1500s, early-1600s culture recently. As a casual painting exercise, so thought...

This is my first attempt at painting a religious subject, so I hope you like it.