“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia - Based on the book by George Orwell
Published in 1938 it covers George Orwell’s time fighting in Spain during the Spanish civil war against General Franco,
Regular edition - Edition of 25
Variant edition - Edition of 15
18”x24” on Gfsmith Colourplan 350Gsm
initialled, Numbered and embossed on the front
Full Signature, Artist stamps on the back
“An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind”
- Gandhi
Regular - Red
Gfsmith colourplan 350gsm
18”x24”
Edition of 10
Variant - Silver
Gfsmith colourplan 350gsm
18”x24”
Edition of 5
Initialled, Numbered and embossed on front
Full signature, Artists stamps on the reverse
The Nightingale is a Russian conte lyrique in three acts by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, based on the 1843 tale "The Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen, It was first performed on 26 May 1914 by the Ballets Russes at the Palais Garnier in Paris.
Fire
Edition of 30
Ice
Edition of 30
Bone smoke
Edition of 28
18”x24”
Screenprint on Gfsmith colourplan 350gsm
Initialled, Numbered and embossed on front
Full signature, Artists stamps on the reverse
Screenprint
72 x 52 cm
edition of 30
on Fabriano 5, 300gsm
Originally made and exhibited for Glasgow print studios 50 anniversary at Glasgows Kelvingrove museum, and was then ascended into the permanent museum collection
Originally a gig poster for an America band with a dark sci fi brief for the project, I channelled some Moebius vibes, anyway the gig poster didn’t go ahead and i decided to make it an art print, the title is from a volume of Tin Tin
Objectif Lune Rouge ( Destination Moon) Red
18"x24" ,
3 color screen print on Gfsmith colorplan 275gsm
S/N and stamped in an edition of 15
Objectif Lune Noir
18"x24"
3 color screen print on Gfsmith colorplan 275gsm (Two metallic silvers)
S/N and stamped in an edition of 4
2022 unique peice
18x24
Wooven paper/ screenprint
shown at “what burns never returns”
October 2022 solo show at Glasgow print studio
After Dark - 2020
Based on the novel by Haruki Murakami
Time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night.” ― Haruki murakami , After Dark
Released by Bottleneck Gallery - NYC, 23rd of April 2020
Regular edition (Gold)- 50
Variant edition (Silver) - 25
Numbered
Screenprinted by The Half and Half - Columbia, South Carolina 18”x24” on Cougar Bright White 100#C
Optimism
18”x24”
3 layer screenprint on Gfsmith Colourplan 275gsm
S/N in an edition of 8
Pessimism
18”x24”
3 layer Screenprint on Gfsmith Colourplan 275gsm
S/N in an edition of 13
Both prints started out as an attempt to document my life currently, based around my studio space which is based at the Briggait; Originally Glasgow’s fish market when it open in 1873, the building was built around a clock tower from the previous building which dates from around 1665. the tower sits directly behind my studio, the original sketches, and colour studies focus on the tower coming out of a fishes mouth.
My parts for a portfoilio of prints released with my studio mates Ashley cook and Brian Mcfie
these were based upon fictitious islands from literature
The stranger based on the 1942 novella by Albert Camus.
L'Étranger - French for “the Stranger”
“It seemed to me as if the sky split open from one end to the other to rain down fire."
The stranger - Albert Camus
(Gold on red) Main edition
Limited edition of 45
Screenprinted by Alan Campbell at Glasgow print studio
on Gfsmith colour plan 350gsm
18”x24”
initialled, Numbered and embossed on front
full signature, Artists stamps on the reverse.
(Black on red)
Limited edition of 2
Screenprinted by Alan Campbell at Glasgow print studio
on Gfsmith colour plan 350gsm
18”x24”
initialled, Numbered and embossed on front
full signature, Artists stamps on the reverse.
January 2021
Killing commendatore
Based on the novel by Haruki Murakami
T-shirt based on my Twelve chairs screenprint, based on the 1928 Novel by IIf and Petrov the soviet satirists
Printed by Black water studios
On Gildan Premium t-shirts, 100% cotton8)
Based on the 1947 novel by Albert Camus
Screenprinted by Half and half, in South Carolina, USA, 18”x24”
3 colour screen print with Metallic gold
Cougar natural 100c,
Edition of 55,
Signed, numbered, embossed.
A2
3 colour screenprint for The Vaselines
commissioned by Saramago
Prismism
11” X 14” / 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm
Giclée print on Somerset velvet 255gsm printed by Glasgow print studio with hand gilded genuine silver leaf detail, applied by Artist Edition of 25
Initialled , numbered and embossed on the front,
Full signature and artist stamps on the back
“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
18"x24"
3 color screen print Gfsmith Black Plike 330gsm
Edition of 50 S/N
: Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep? is the starting point of the film we all love, written by Phillip K Dick, published in 1968, the film is pretty faithful to the novel, with a few differences, the biggest of those to me was the use of Animals, in novel the full story is pushed along by Deckard wanting a proper animal, the ultimate status symbol after the nuclear war that has killed most of them, he riles through a catalogue from a pet store, phoning the pet store and keeping count of what he can afford if he kills all the replicants and gets the associated bounty’s. I focused the main part of my print on this; the ostrich, being one of the desired animals, while the spider is related how the replicates treat animals near the end of the novel, without empathy.
Unique peice
18x24
Wooven screenprint
shown at “what burns never returns”
October 2022 solo show
@ Glasgow print studio
An ongoing series of screen prints and drawings inspired by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
The Idiot
Regular edition - 25
Variant edition - 10
Black Foil - 2
Red Foil -1
24”x36”
Screenprint edition of 3
first shown at “ What burns never returns”
October 2022 solo show at Glasgow print studio
T-shirts for Arizona based literature inspired clothing brand Miles to go clothing.
Brothers Karamazov, War and peace, the Master and margarita, Of Mice and men, and Crime and punishment
variations of self initiated designs that were first published as screen prints.
All five are available here- https://www.shopmilestogo.com/
“That’s gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.”- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Blue
18”x24”
Edition of 25
Screenprinted on Gfsmith colourplan 350gsm
Black
18”x24”
Edition of 20
Screenprinted on Bread and butter 300gsm
Silver - Mui
Edition of 5
Screenprinted on Gfsmith colourplan 350gsm
Night -Sumire
Edition of 1
18”x24” on 250gsm
Initialled, Numbered and embossed on front
Full signature, Artists stamps on the reverse
Optimism
18”x24”
3 layer screenprint on Gfsmith Colourplan 275gsm
S/N in an edition of 8
Pessimism
18”x24”
3 layer Screenprint on Gfsmith Colourplan 275gsm
S/N in an edition of 13
Both prints started out as an attempt to document my life currently, based around my studio space which is based at the Briggait; Originally Glasgow’s fish market when it open in 1873, the building was built around a clock tower from the previous building which dates from around 1665. the tower sits directly behind my studio, the original sketches, and colour studies focus on the tower coming out of a fishes mouth.
Norwegian wood - 2018
“ One weird thing after another came up that Sunday afternoon. A fire broke out near Midori’s house and, when we went up to the third-floor laundry deck too watch, we sort of kissed, it sounds stupid to put it like that, but that was how things worked out” -
Regular - Edition of 30
18” x 24” - Gfsmith 275gsm Colourplan,
S/N and stamped on the back.
Manga - Edition of 6
18” x 24” on 300gsm etching paper.
Night - Edition of 2
18” x 24” on 275gsm Colourplan
Originally drawn as the design for my brothers stag do t-shirt, which took place in Berlin May 2017, Featuring the deer and the Fernsehturm, I then released the design with out the Fernsehturm for a limited edition screenprint
A2 - 16.53 x 23.39"
1 colour screenprint
on Daler Rowney Heavy weight 220gsm
Signed/numbered and stamped edition of 30
Titled after the Henrik Ibsen Play “Ghosts”
Screenprint
72 x 52 cm
edition of 40
on Fabriano 5, 300gsm
Steppenwolf Inspired by the Novel by Hermann Hesse
18”x24” - 45.72 x 60.96 cm
Screenprint on Gfsmith colourplan 350gsm
Edition of 30
Initialled, Numbered and embossed on front
Full signature, Artists stamps on the reverse
Handprinted by Alan Campbell, at Glasgow print studio 2023
German reads from the top down
” Anarchists evening entertainment”
”Magic Theater “
”Entrance not for everyone “
”Madmen Only”
“The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.”― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
Atelier Beith was a collaborative project where a group of recent graduate architects interpreted one of my drawings into a 3D folly on site at Beith Trust in Ayrshire Scotland for archifringe2017
The original drawing was inspired by the novel Lanark by Alasdair Gray
The main build took place in July 2017
Developed in collaboration with
Lee Ivett - http://www.baxendale-dco.com/
Beith Trust - http://beithtrust.org/
Archtecture Fringe - http://architecturefringe.com/
Alex O'Neil - https://www.alexoneilldesign.com/
Dan Craig -
Joe Duffin -
Claire Souliman -
Fraser Yardley - https://fraseryardley.myportfolio.com/
“No, this is not Rio de Janeiro"
Based on the Novel the Golden Calf by IIf and Petrov
18"x24"
2 colour screenprint
Gfsmith colourplan 275gsm
edition of 20 S/N
"Empty drawing room" in 4 editions
18”x24”
GFsmith Colourplan 275gsm
Number and initialled on the front, Signed and stamped on the back
5 silver on white
5 blue on white
2 silver on blue
1 silver on red - sold out
Based on the poem by Jorge Luis Borges
EMPTY DRAWING ROOM
Amid the brocade's dimness
the mahogany suite continues
its everlasting conversation.
The daguerreotypes tell their lie:
a false nearness
of old age cloistered in a mirror,
and when we look hard they elude us
like pointless dates
of murky anniversaries.
With a blurred gesture
their anxious almost-voice
runs after our souls
more than half a century late
and there it's scarcely reached
the first mornings of our childhood.
Actuality, ceaseless
ruddy, and beyond doubt,
celebrates in the street's traffic
its unassailable abundance
of present apotheosis,
while the light
slices through the windowpanes
and humbles the senile armchairs
and corners and strangles
the shriveled voice
of these ancestors
The Twelve Chairs
The Twelve Chairs - Regular (Blue)
18"x24"
Edition of 25, S/N
3 colour Screen print on Gfsmith Colourplan 275gsm
The Twelve Chairs - Variant (white paper) -
18"x24"
Edition of 3, S/N
3 colour Screen print on Gfsmith Colourplan 275gsm
The novel follows a diamond hunt sparked by Kisa's mother law confessing on her deathbed that the family jewels were hidden from being seized by the soviets in one of the twelve dining room chairs, the chairs were seized but the diamonds were not found.
Kisa sets out to find the chairs and the diamonds, quickly con-man Ostap Bender learns of the enterprise and pushes his way in, providing the street smarts to track down the chairs.
originally designed as artwork for new York based Talking Dog’s EP
i showed an enlarged version of the print as part of my glasgow print studio show- Dead ends
” The Wind-up Bird Chronicle “ Based on the 1994/1995 Novels by Haruki Murakami.
Print released by Bottleneck Gallery - NYC
February 11th 2021, 5pm GMT 12pm EST
Regular edition (Red)- 40
Variant edition (Silver) - 25
Variant edition (gold) - 10
+ Artists copies (Ap’s)
Screen printed by VGKids - Ypsilanti, Michigan, 18”x24”
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
inspired by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Brothers Karamazov
First edition - 13
second edition - 60
Polaroid of Installation
12 screenprints
shown in 2020
Inspired by the Novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“An evil man threw tobacco in the macaque-rhesus eyes.' Oleg was struck dumb. Up to then he had been strolling along smiling with knowing condescension, but now he felt like yelling and roaring across the whole zoo, as though the tobacco had been thrown into his own eyes. 'Why?' Thrown into its eyes, just like that! 'Why? It's senseless! Why?'"
Red 18"x24"
5 colour screenprint
edition of 10 , S/N
on Gfsmith colourplan 275gsm
Green 18"x24"
5 colour screenprint with hand emblishments
edition of 45, S/N
on Gfsmith colourplan 275gsm
Solitaire - Revisiting one of my first screenprints as sequel 10 years on inspired by the city of vienna and the Wiener Werkstätte
Kreuz - Black on Gold
Edition of 2 - 18"x24"
on Daler-Rowney , Frosted Gold 300gsm
Herz - Red on white -
Edition of 5 - 18"x24"
Clairefontaine acrylic paper - 360gsm (super thick)
Piks - Black on white -
Edition of 5 - 18"x24"
Clairefontaine acrylic paper - 360gsm (super thick)
Karo - Red on Gold
Edition of 2 - 18"x24"
on Daler-Rowney , Frosted Gold 300gsm
The Master and Margarita
"The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! "
Regular
Edition of 25
4 Colour screenprint - 2 metallics and one split fountain
18"x 24" Full bleed
Gfsmith 270Gsm colorplan
Signed, Numbered and stamped
Variant
18x24
4 colour layer screenprint (two metallic and one split fountains)
on Silver Mirror Foil
Signed/numbered and stamped edition of 5
Inspired by the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
Botch - Drawings volume 2"
9"x12"
28 pages
Multi layered screen prints on recycled paper,
Every copy has unique elements
Hand Bound
Edition of 65
Thematically the book covers Literature, Storytelling and word play.
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
18" x 24"
7 layer screen print, two blends and metallic inks
Edition of 40
Red edition
18"x 24"
5 colour screenprint
edition of 5, S/N
It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince based on the treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli, published 1532
Regular - £40/ $50 + S/H
2 colour screenprint on Gfsmith colourplan 270gsm
18”x24”
Edition of 20
Initialled and numbered on the front, stamped and signed on the back
Variant - £50/ $63 +S/H
2 colour screenprint on Gfsmith colourplan 270gsm
18”x24”
Edition of 2
Initialled and numbered on the front, stamped and signed on the back
Mini art print - Knight tower
A3 - 11.7 × 16.5 inches
Edition of 15 S/N
screenprinted on Gfsmith 275gsm
Kafka on the shore - 2014
based on the novel by Haruki Murakami
A certain type of perfection can only be realised through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”
― Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the shore
Regular - Edition of 25
18" X 24" on GFsmith 275gsm Natural colourplan
Silver - Edition of 10 (silver)
18"x24" on GFsmith 275gsm Natural colourplan
Red - Edition of 3
18”x24” On Gfsmith 275gsm
Gold - Edition of 10
18”x24” on Gfsmith 275gsm
Avoir les dents longues is a french idioms i came across and enjoyed, to be ambitious; to have lofty goals
("to have long teeth")
16"x20",
one colour screenprint,
On Gfsmith 270Gsm
Edition of 15
Throwing shapes
Originally designed as silk scarf
inspired by the work of Matisse
Based on the sketch by Monty Python
Officially licensed via Colourplusnoun and Python (Monty) pictures
Exhibited in leed as apart of " and now for something completly diffrent "
41x58.5CM
Edition of 40 with 5 AP's
Three colour screenprint
S/N
Sea See C
18x24”Screenprint in edition of 15, on Gfsmith colour plan 275gsm signed and numbered
Sea Noir
18X24”
Screenprint in edition of 5
Signed and numbered
A look at the 200+ paintings I created between March and August 2020 during the first lockdown for covid 19, i showed these as part of signs and sybmols a 3 person show in august 2020 with Ashley Cook and Moe Rocksmoore
These are mostly A5 and are painted with gouache on paper,
In praise of darkness
Based on the poem by Jorge Luis Borges
Old age (the name that others give it)
can be the time of our greatest bliss.
The animal has died or almost died.
The man and his spirit remain.
I live among vague, luminous shapes
that are not darkness yet.
Buenos Aires,
whose edges disintegrated
into the endless plain, has gone back to being the Recoleta, the Retiro,
the nondescript streets of the Once,
and the rickety old houses
we still call the South.
In my life there were always too many things. Democritus of Abdera plucked out his eyes in order to think:
Time has been my Democritus.
This penumbra is slow and does not pain me;
it flows down a gentle slope,
resembling eternity.
My friends have no faces,
women are what they were so many years ago,
these corners could be other corners,
there are no letters on the pages of books.
All this should frighten me,
but it is a sweetness, a return.
Of the generations of texts on earth
I will have read only a few–
the ones that I keep reading in my memory,
reading and transforming.
From South, East, West, and North
the paths converge that have led me
to my secret center.
Those paths were echoes and footsteps,
women, men, death-throes, resurrections,
days and nights,
dreams and half-wakeful dreams,
every inmost moment of yesterday
and all the yesterdays of the world,
the Dane's staunch sword and the Persian's moon,
the acts of the dead,
shared love, and words,
Emerson and snow, so many things.
Now I can forget them. I reach my center,
my algebra and my key,
my mirror.
Soon I will know who I am.
Disciple - edition of 24
Self portrait - edition of 15
Botch abstractions - edition of 15
Desfile - edition of 65
Desfile line art - edition of 6
Four Candles - edition of 22
Based on the novel by George Orwell
5 colour screen print with hand painted embellishments on the hands on GFSmith colourplan in edition of 45
18"x24"
Focused on the English folk rhymes Oranges and Lemons, and under the chestnut tree that are mis told in the novel, with extra focus on the rats from room 101 and the Skeleton as a visual of winston after room 101.