My new illustration website: chichiparish.net

ERm, there’s not much content yet, but I hope to build it up with a new body of work in the next 6 months.

This site will continue to be used as a blog. Yakk yakk.

A big thank you to Neil for sorting out the bugs, hackers and spammers who sneaked in whilst I wasn’t looking. I think I owe you more than a couple of pints. I probably owe you a beer factory.

Thank you.

This site has been hacked. It will be taken down this week and hopefully fixed by next week or so.

In the interim, I will be posting stuff using my old blogger account:

Blogger

Sorry about that.
And thank you Neil for your fab help.

Here’s a drawing inspired by medieval bestiary. Aint he cute.

Check out Paul Bommer’s website for further details and feast your eyes on his glorious clickable image:

London Illustrators’ Gathering
on
Wednesday 10 March 2010, 7pm onwards
@
The Crown Tavern
43 Clerkenwell Green
London
Ec1R 0EG

Nearest tube: Farringdon Station-approx 3 minute walk

All Welcome!

Saturday was spent at the National Gallery in the company of friends and astounding Medieval paintings. En route to the gallery (an impromtu visit), we gawped at an abandoned nose stuck bubble-gum-like about a quarter of the way up the inside wall of Admiralty Arch.

Death usually stares back unashamedly in Medieval paintings. From political spin to seraphim, highbrow to shaved eyebrows, perspectives contorta (okay, maybe this word doesn’t exist), to snail-symbolism, gold & god, graceful harts, folded robes in profusion pink, to pre trans-fat Medieval flesh overburden by Medieval living and open wounds- how can one not be over-powered by all this visual? A painting by Piero di Cosimo called The Fight between the Lapiths and the Centaurs provoked much animated discussion. It’s a saucy violent wedding painting hot enough to fire-up middle-aged mortal loins. The painting appears to be one big phallic fightathon. Perhaps it may explain how the nose ended up on Admiralty Arch. Meanwhile, downstairs in the National Gallery’s pleasing Dinning Room, a fine looking leg of Parma ham remained as yet, unsliced.

Here’s a rough incomplete sketch of The Fight between the Lapiths and the Centaurs:

And here are my mates cunningly disguised as Middle Aged symbols. Don’t they look cute.