Dear all,

Exciting news! June is the month of the rose and yesterday (17th June), I completed the design stage of a major new work. It is a fascinating and powerful meeting of various (but interrelated) themes. These include: the labyrinth, the green man, the rose and the forest. You may also like to include the quest...

The next stage is to draw the whole design out (in pencil) onto a large piece of artists board (smooth watercolour paper bonded onto card). Lining pens will then dance, stroke and meander their way round until the whole thing is outlined. Finally colour (in the form of gouache) will illuminate and cast shadow until... all will be revealed.

It's sometimes a tricky thing to show actual images of work in progress: I don't want to give the game away until it is properly finished and previewing work of originality can leave it open to plagiarism. As an artist I feel a certain guardianship towards work I have put my heart and soul into... Having said all this, I'd like to offer a preview or two in the coming weeks... so watch this space (or the one above it)!

If you are interested in this design, its progress and other recent work (now for sale) then please return here soon to find out more. Also, I recommend you go back and read the last few entries of this news page...

Hopefully we should all come back smelling of roses!