Happy New Year of the Horse! Wishing all my friends and followers a joyous New Year, I hope 2014 be bountiful, jolly and successful to...

Hush! What’s that sound? A strange old man with a long white beard is creeping through the night. #sketch #sketchbook

My house and studio is an island in a raging sea of noise. Right outside my window the builders are digging up the road yet again. The...

Illustrators can be a lonely bunch, one cog in a production process involving a team of people you usually never meet. More often than...

The Giant has awoke! Stone Giant – Michelangelo’s David and How He Came to Be, written by Jane Sutcliffe, has been my biggest...

Last Sunday the biggest daily newspaper in Japan, Mainichi Shinbun, included a special pull-out poster feature – Moji no Nai News “News...

Ah, back at last!! I’ve been avoiding social media for a time, chiefly due to a series of hurdles following our big house move, volunteer...

Wishing all of my friends and readers a fabulously lush and verdant summer! As some will know, I’ve recently moved house just in time for...

This year celebrates the 200th anniversary of the publication of the Grimm Brother’s Household Tales. To commemorate, here’s my latest...

Here are some more comparison photos of lost Yanaka and Nezu, “then and now”. Over the years I experienced a lot of things in Japan, many...

My fascination with Japan originally stemmed from a love of Ukiyo-e woodblock prints and the history of old Tokyo, which soon expanded...

It’s not just people sketching this Spring, I’ve been flexing the imagination as well. These little sketchbook doodles are actually...

Here are some more sketches made earlier this month on Tokyo trains. On this trip in particular I drew a lot of train passengers....

Daughter and I have just arrived home from another flying visit to Tokyo. As I was only in town for a couple of weeks it was a very busy...

There’s so much talk about new technology, of tablets and Apps, e-Books versus print publishing, it’s difficult to know where you stand...

…..doodle. #doodle #sketchbook

So yes, last weekend I was off on the train for a couple of hours, as promised I was drawing all the way. However due to the constraints...

Some of the quick life sketches I drew on crowded trains in Tokyo last summer. I find drawing on busy commuter trains exhilarating. You...

In the meantime and in an altogether different vein, here are some more of the small regular monthly cuts I do for Japanese airline ANA’s...

I’ve been quiet on the blog of late, in fact all social media, largely due to work on my latest picture book, Jane Sutcliffe’s...