Linocut geeks – John Peel illustration

Here’s my illustration of John Peel – the latest portrait in my Geek Heroes series of linocuts. I’ve also done Jarvis Cocker and Benedict Cumberbatch. All three are available from my Etsy shop. Let me know if you have any good ideas who else I can do (preferably British!) I used my lovely new ink […]

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Jarvis Cocker portrait in linocut

I’ve finally got round to carving and printing my portrait of Jarvis Cocker. It is one of a series of linocut portraits of geek heroes. I have also done Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock (see below). Both are available from my Etsy shop: Buy your Jarvis Cocker print! Buy your Benedict Cumberbatch print! You can click […]

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Jarvis Cocker illustration

Following on from my linocut of Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock I am working on a new portrait of Jarvis Cocker, another of my geek heroes. I haven’t started carving the lino yet, but here’s my preparatory drawing. I think I need to work on Jarvis’s eyes as they’re a bit goggly at the moment. I’m […]

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Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock – Linocut illustration

Linocut illustration of Sherlock Here’s my latest linocut illustration – a portrait of Benedict Cumberbatch in the recent BBC series of Sherlock (one of the best things on tv recently). My illustration portfolio needs beefing up a bit, so I’ve embarked on a series of portraits of intellectual heroes (geek heroes if you will) from […]

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Mark Long linocut animal alphabet

Just came across these rather charming creatures by London-based illustrator Mark Long. I have also just noticed that each letter is represented by an animal beginning with that letter (I’m a bit slow today). I presume V is for vampire bat! As well as these linocut animals Mark makes some lovely brushy pen drawings, another […]

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Gandhi Autobiography out now!

M. K. Gandhi – An autobiography The book cover I illustrated for the Folio Society is out at last! I made the portrait of Gandhi using linocut to create two layers which were scanned and then blocked onto the canvas of the book. The designer Sheri Gee took a detail from the image to use […]

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Gandhi portrait for The Folio Society

This is an illustration I did recently for Gandhi’s autobiography, to be published later this year by the Folio Society. It is of course a linocut. You can see the preparatory stages in cutting the lino below. The final illustration for the book cover will be two-colour and in the classic Folio Society look with […]

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Leonard Baskin

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Kamilsmala

This Polish artist was brought to my attention by Mark Webber (see the post below).  I didn’t really believe it was a linocut at first glance!  More works by this artist here

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