Welcome to my website
Please have a look around - the latest post from my blog is below and you can access older posts, links to my friends, buy some of my artwork or contact me by clicking on the links to the left.
I have chosen stuff for the portfolio on the basis of raising a smile or some sort of Proustian style nostalgia. I shall add to the collection after a second trawl through the archive. If there is anything that is unclear or puzzling , then please get in touch and I shall sort out the problem.
The comic strips from my previous website will be added soon. We are currently working on a format that will be easy for the viewer, rather than putting up what is ,in effect a printed page. Thanks for your patience on this.
I am also working on a couple of new ones which I want to put up in the Spring.
All the best and enjoy a browse.
Jan
23/07/2008
Back Again.
Hello,
This diary is back after an absence of a few months. The reason for its absence has been a family bereavement. I am not a great fan of bearing my heart to a virtual public , but cartooning recently has seemed somewhat inconsequential. Nonetheless, the world has kept turning, ( hill and beans are the two words that spring immediately to mind) which is a very good thing and I want now to get my stuff out there and amusing people again,rediscovering the joy of markmaking. No pressure!
Meantime my quest for Eastern European whimsy continues and below I give you some Varsoviana on the subject. These two examples are from the Protestant part of the Powązki Cemetary in Warsaw; one of Europe's greatest necropolae. I like these places. They are quiet, stuffed with meditative detail; mementi mori done with wit , love and sorrow. You come out having been made to know what it is to be on the journey of life as a human, which is the purpose of all great art (and I suppose of cemetaries). It's not morbid at all. You go in , have a wander and then go on your merry way about your daily business. Highly recommended!
Jan