The boundaries between illustrations and drawing cross over but most of the illustrations are from the realms of my imagination. I am a compulsive doodler and many of my illustrations spawn from sketch books full of doodles. Telephone calls are my most creative time for doodling, as are noisy pubs with doodle enhanced conversations.
Infant Pain Banner
Roll banner design and illustration for the Oxford University Department of Paediatrics used at the Cheltenham Science Festival.
moreClypeus
Commissioned ink painting for Jane Charlesworth, with the livery colours of the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company. Inspired by the original photo of Clypeus at … more
Turn around where possible
Santa isn’t having a good time today – it was a poor decision to ditch the reindeer and deploy Cedric the snail… Keep going … more
The Mark II Lamprey
The Mark II Lamprey gets its name from the array of inward pointing fins on the air intake which superficially resemble the mouthparts of a parasitic jawless … more
Bearitania
Bearitania – hedonocratic benign dictatorship run by a pair of bears populated with marshmallow pigs, cola bottle penguins and singing snails. Everybody is happy … more
Unforseen consequences
An elephant. probably in musth, jumps off the top diving board leading to unforseen consequences…
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Angler Fishing
A giant angler fish illuminates a dangerously close bathyscape Trieste while attached male fish look on.
moreRisinghurst Fun Day
These are the paintings from the Risinghurst Fun Day that takes place in early September every year at the United Reformed Church just off … more
Bossaphonik Flyer Summer 2014
Yet again another round of Bossaphonik – this time a space themed flyer. Check out bossaphonik.com for details of forthcoming gigs.
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Oxford Hack Space Flyer
Octopii are great! They have a weird siphon which I think is their mouth. I thought it would be fun to portray Hack Space, … more
Bossaphonik
I’ve been working with Dan Ofer on Bossaphonik since 2009 on www.bossaphonik.com, the quarterly flyers, the monthly posters and a variety of other graphics … more
There was an old lady…
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly, Perhaps she’ll die. There was an … more
Trumpet Genie
This genie emerges from the horn of a trumpet. He likes to blow his own trumpet. Well there’s a second genie that likes to … more
Hugh’s Doodles!
I love doodling. I usually end up with a collection of mentalist animals in unlikely scenarios. One day I’ll turn them into a children’s … more
Fart Wrestler
This was conceived on a comics drawing course with Adam Murphy at the Oxford Jam Factory. To decide the subject two words were pulled … more
Ladybird’s wing opening sequence
I found some high speed footage of a ladybird opening it’s wings and realised that it very closely resembled the way in which a … more
Trompe-l’œil Mural
I painted this trompe l’euil mural as part of a garden design project. The only thing missing is Bilbo Baggins…
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Mural for play room featuring the family dog, a duck, a tractor, a helicopter and the cast of Wind In the Willows, all applied … more
