Hand painted "Art Ties"

I’ve finally set up a proper business. It’s called Art Ties and is a combination of my work as fashion designer and painter.

Art Ties are custom-made, hand-painted neck ties. As you would expect they’re pretty colourful. Below are some sample ties with ‘cities and countries’ as theme. 

The Amsterdam tie is designed from a picture that I made from memory after an art college to Amsterdam. 

The Paris tie is painted in batik style using hot wax dribbling in a drawing then coloured fabric ink colouring in. The hot wax is ironed off with paper.

Spanish tie also made using batik style. There is a dancer and bull and matador and a clear night with stars.

The Pheasant pub winning chef's hat

The image below shows our model Nathalie with my hand embroidered Pheasant Chef’s Hat, made for Jay at the award winning Pheasant Restaurant in Huntingdon. The fabric has pheasants in the print and the embroidery says "The Pheasant" in large joined up lettering in red across the front.

Two more published cartoons

This are the last two cartoons published in Vrij Nederland magazine. I got plenty more, so you'll see more of them at some point.

The cartoons are called British Home Life and Flying Low.

CEO's published cartoon

Another cartoon published in Vrij Nederland...

Aliens cartoon

One of the things I’ve been working on in recent months are political cartoons. The one below has been published by Dutch magazine VN last week.