Illustration
My illustration practice often begins with words; a song, a poem, a fragment of text. I translate these into images and objects, turning them into books or visual sequences. The result is a quiet dialogue between text and drawing, where rhythm, tone and emotion guide the form.
My illustration practice often begins with words; a song, a poem, a fragment of text. I translate these into images and objects, turning them into books or visual sequences. The result is a quiet dialogue between text and drawing, where rhythm, tone and emotion guide the form.
WATCH HER DISAPPEAR
Watch Her Disappear is an illustrated book based on the Tom Waits song of the same name , a surreal, poetic meditation on memory, longing, and quiet loss. The lyrics drift between dream and waking, where someone is loved from a distance as they slowly fade from view. It’s a story about obsession, emotional distance and the strange beauty of watching someone disappear.
The work translates this atmosphere into a visual narrative through two recurring figures circling each other with cautious curiosity. A sink overflows, a house dissolves into a garden, and time feels suspended. The book captures the strange tension between presence and absence, desire and fading.
The faraway yelping of a wounded do
And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat
A light goes on and the door opens
And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard
And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat
A light goes on and the door opens
And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard
THE RED AND SILVER FANTASTIQUE
The Red and Silver Fantastique and the Libretto of the Insipid Minstrel is an illustrated book inspired by a surreal, gothic tale by Lucas Lanthier. The story follows a wandering minstrel through a world of absurd rituals, eerie elegance and theatrical melancholy, part fantasy, part fable, part fever dream.
The illustrations combine acrylic painting with fine line engraving to reflect the story’s shifting moods and ornate strangeness. Baroque, bizarre and slightly sinister, the images build a visual language around the text’s decadent, dreamlike world, where silver masks speak, music misleads, and nothing is quite as it seems.
I drag my right arm through the sawdust… he hasn't opened his eyes in months.
He was a small dog. He lost his hat and he never made a very convincing primate.
I was painted red and silver. Now I'm lonely, lost my dollar, and my dog, he rots (…)
He was a small dog. He lost his hat and he never made a very convincing primate.
I was painted red and silver. Now I'm lonely, lost my dollar, and my dog, he rots (…)
A CROSSBREED
This project explores the unsettling nature of Kafka’s hybrid creature, part kitten, part lamb, through minimal, symbolic drawings. A pair of scissors becomes the central metaphor, reflecting the creature’s divided identity and quiet strangeness.
Kafka’s story is a reflection on duality, alienation and the discomfort of what can’t be fully defined. The illustrations respond to this tension, capturing the in-between space the creature inhabits, tender, absurd, and quietly disturbing.
I have a curious animal, half kitten, half lamb. It is a legacy from my father. But it only developed in my time; formerly it was far more lamb than kitten. Now it is both in about equal parts.
