A couple of portraits from a glorious Spring shoot with Siobhan Wilson at Dawyck botanical gardens, for her FLOWERCORE project with Olive Grove Records.
Siobhan Wilson Dawyck Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Olive Grove

A scramble of Crib Goch, the knife edge ridge in Eryri / Snowdonia.
First part of a hike around the complete Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon horseshoe.
Breathtaking, literally. Pant soiling, nearly.

Well that was a fun and beautiful portrait shoot with Siobhan Wilson at Dawyck botanical gardens.
Many thanks RBGE Press Office for all your help, and double thanks to Dawyck gardener Thomas for a little lighting assistance.
Pics to follow 🌺🌻🌼🌷🥀

In psychic defence of grown up world horror news cycle, some wholesome news. My 10 yr old is going to a dairy tomorrow to have pic taken w. a charity milk bottle w. her winning drawing on it. £1 for every bottle sold goes to a charity of her choosing, aid for Ukraine. V proud ♥

Still from the trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux.
Has there ever been such a nominative determinist piece of casting before?
#LadyGaga #JokerFolieADeux

No doubt there'll be another culture war times ten to accompany this but wtf, it's a really really interesting looking trailer. Someone skewing the superhero juggernaut off road.

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Goddamn Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing, I have had 125 pages of falling head over heels in love with the most beautifully written wild wolf while an inevitable bad-thing-happens-to-wolf looms large and now its arrived I can't read the fucking thing anymore sorry Cormac 🐺💔

Face in progress day #III , further face to go...

#PortraitPainting #OilPainting

Progress / LOADS to do
This is a commissioned portrait btw. They don't cost very much, not really, for a VERY special thing you'll keep and look at forever and will then be handed down the family and you can't buy one from the shops and AI won't ever make you one.
#OilPainting

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
How does a racist party recruit candidates if the candidates are dropped when they are found to be entirely suited to the party due to their racism.
It's the racist Catch-22, and it is some catch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Emergency mini-palette (burnt umber)
Acrylic on business card
9x6cm
2024

NFS

(Sketch for) Thought Of You As My Mountain Top
Oil on panel
40x20cm
2024
£195

The fellas (aged 10) are in the front room shouting Leonard Cohen song titles at the Google voice search thing on the telly, and as parents I feel we have both excelled and also possibly failed them terribly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nurofen

What is your bookmark?
Mine is a 22 year old invite to an art exhibition in Fort Hays State University, Kansas.

Elsewhere the twilight sad were asking for any old pix of them, so I dug these out. From THE LIQUIDROOM, Voodoo Rooms and Avalanche Records. All 2008-09.
What an ear-bleeding unholy fucking gorgeous noise those early gigs in little rooms were.

Swell