Tell us a bit about your yourself. I grew up in the middle of nowhere in England – we didn’t have a telly so between running around out- side and playing in the mud, I mostly drew things for entertainment. I’ve loved drawing since I was a kid so I ended up studying illustration at Uni, and I guess now it’s now. Do you have a connection with the sea? (there seems to be in your portfolio, I’m guessing you surf) Yeah, we grew up close to the water so it’s pretty special to me. I’ve gone on to live near the sea for a lot of my life so I’m a pretty obsessive surfer. A fucking horrible surfer, but obsessive. I don’t get in the water as much as I’d like at the moment because I’m currently living inland, so I’ve started whittling myself some boards to pass the time which is amazing fun. It feels like full circle to me, cruising around on some misshapen lump of toxic composite that you’ve lovingly crafted is a pretty good feeling. You seem to have some pretty cool clients, how did all this come about? Did you chase them or did they find you? And who’s been your fave? It’s a strange combination of chasing people and hassling far more than I’m comfortable with, and being approached completely out of the blue. I guess the Internet is a pretty handy tool for both sides of that relationship. My favourite clients aren’t always the bigger ones, maybe the best was a European snowboarding magazine. I only did a winter’s worth of tiny illustrations for them, but they were pretty indifferent to a pre-prescribed subject matter – just as long as it was relatively puerile, mildly offensive to something worth offending, and raised a smile they we’re stoked and it ran. Have you learnt anything interesting or funny about one of your subjects when researching them? Well I debatably know more than would be consid- ered healthy about Laird Hamilton’s improbable work-out regimen, unorthodox watercraft collection, and unconventional world views… Any illustrators past or present that have influenced your work? There’s too many to mention. There’s so, so many exceptionally talented people putting work out at the moment, it’s fucking crazy. It’s almost dangerous to look too much though because it’s so easy to find yourself being overly influenced by other people’s work, … Read more