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Richmond Herald, from the 1970s

I was given a weekly cartoon spot in this paper which covered Richmond, Twickenham, Barnes and Putney in southwest London. I also contributed caricatures of local politicians based on the style I had created in my film, Reel People.

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Plain Dealer (Bath), 1978

This series of cartoons for the Bath ‘counter culture’ magazine Plain Dealer featured real people transforming into others – Gerald Ford turning into Frankenstein’s monster; Greta Garbo turning into David Bowie; Enoch Powell turning into Idi Amin; Margaret Thatcher turning into ‘Jaws’; Popeye turning into Prime Minister Jim Callaghan (ex-naval); Ronald Reagan turning into Richard Nixon.

Time Out, 1978

This was a commission by Time Out magazine for an illustration to go with their review of Fran Lebowitz’s new book, Metropolitan Life. Lebowitz was considered a modern wit in the mould of Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde.

Radio Times, 1978

This was a commission by the Radio Times to draw Sir John Gielgud for a listing of their new series, An Actor in his Time.

Illustrations and sculptures for Andrew Lanyon's books and exhibitions

Von Ribbentrop in St. Ives, by Andrew Lanyon, 2010

‘When war broke out in 1939, the people of St. Ives, like people anywhere who are threatened with invasion, were forced to be imaginative…’

From 2010 to the present I have been contributing work for Andrew Lanyon’s various books and exhibitions. This was the first, a wire sculpture of Sigmund Freud psycho-analysing a naked woman on a couch (see Exhibitions on this website).

The Only Non-slip Dodo Mat in the World, by Andrew Lanyon, 2013

…in which the hero of the story, archaeologist and explorer Ambrose Fortescue, sets up home inside the statues of notable people as a way of getting closer to understanding them.

The statues of 18th Century Prussian military theorist, Carl von Clausewitz, and British author, Beatrix Potter, were located within a short train ride of each other. Fortescue would regularly travel between the two for a welcome change of mindset.

In this model, operated with both hands, Picasso is working on one of his Pink period paintings. The viewer pulls the left-hand ring-pull and a blue colour swatch flies through the letterbox, landing on the floor. Then the viewer pulls the right-hand ring-pull and Picasso turns his head to look down at the swatch. This launches him into his Blue period.

Alternative Edens, by Andrew Lanyon, illustrated by Chris James, 2015

‘A developer saw metal

Poking from below

On the knoll where once

An apple once did grow…

…That Adam was a robot

And Eve was metal too

Alters everything

There is another view’

Here’s my construction of a metal fig leaf, made of a real fig leaf and a plasticine nut – both sprayed with silver automobile paint.

‘As Evie slept one night

A serpent moved up close

A twinkle in its eye

An apple in its mouth

This worm had laid its eggs

Upon the apple’s skin

And when Evie swallowed this

Its grubs did hatch within’

‘All men come from Adam

Every female Eve

Not any come from Jennifer

Not a single male from Steve

Jennifer and Steven

Were each a prototype

For that perfect couple

The pair who get the hype

But the couple hit it off

And bred another line

Of mortals who love laughter

And never seem to whine

Eve and her Adonis

May look so fine and fair

But most of us’d prefer

To come from Jennifer’

The Musings of Creatures, by Andrew Lanyon, 2016

In this book & exhibition, Andrew Lanyon imagines the kinds of books the birds and the beasts – from Albatross to Woodworm – would write. I illustrated the ant and the mole...

Nature’s Laboratory, by Andrew Lanyon, 2018

This exhibition, with accompanying book, premiered at the Falmouth Art Gallery before moving upcountry to The Royal West of England Academy in Bristol.