Field notes article in WRAP Magazine, Issue Five: Human Endeavours, Summer 2012

Along with 18 other contributors my Field Notes book project was featured in issue five of Wrap magazine, in the article entitled 'Field Trip'.

After working in isolation on this project it was really intersting to see what the other illustrators/artists had contributed.

Field Notes book

The result of my research trip...

'Field Notes' competition and research trip

Back in May I entered a competition through Wrap magazine (http://www.wrapmagazine.com/).
This was a collaborative project between Wrap and Field notes who contributed a number of books.
I received this exciting package of goodies through the post!

The brief was to document a new endeavor through one of the Field Notes books and then return it to Wrap to be included in the next issue.

I chose to document a research trip for a picture book story I had started working on. This trip took me to the wilds of Dungeness in Kent. 

I booked myself into a B&B called 'the Watchtower' - once a Napoleonic lookout and spent two blissful days drawing and taking photographs.

The new lighthouse

The lighthouse lens

View from the old lighthouse

A house covered in rubber

Derek Jarman's cottage and garden

Phone case necklace

Designed for someone who often misplaces their phone!
Made with organic cotton webbing and off-cuts of Irish silk tweed.

Leather phone case

Designed for an HTC phone.
Up-cycled leather - salvage from a leather shop in Brick Lane.
Hand-stitch and machine stitch

Nettle mural commission

A private commission for a mural based on an drawing of nettles.

Farnham pottery, Surrey

A quirky collection of buildings make up the Victorian pottery in Farnham, Surrey.

Everything is made from pottery - from the drainpipes to the window frames.