Amercian Horror Story: House Keeping

Here's my piece for the new Hero Complex Gallery show 'House Keeping'

A great show to be part of celebrating a awesome show, details below:

Join Hero Complex Gallery and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment for THE ultimate fan art display October 2-18 celebrating the 13-time Emmy Award-winning “American Horror Story” franchise hailed by fans and critics, alike. Peruse more than 100 originals, prints and sculptures inspired by all four seasons of the horrifying FX anthology series – from the haunting ‘Murder House’ and insane ‘Asylum,’ to voodoo practicing witches in ‘Coven’ and the show’s own ‘Freak Show.’

Each piece will be available for purchase, so fans and art collectors can take home a piece of the show! Bring home a piece of fan art and “American Horror Story: Freak Show” – available now on Digital HD and Blu-rayTM and DVD October 6 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Signed to Debut Art

I am now signed to Debut Art. These guys have some amazing talent on the books and I'm chuffed to off been asked to come onboard, they rock at what they do and I cant wait to work with them in the future.

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WIP for October HCG show

I am taking part in quite a few gallery shows this year and next here is a little work in progress for one of them, more details real soon...

The Visit

A new piece for a forthcoming project - are we alone?

It's been a while ..

...since I have had a website but I thought it was about time. The past 12-18 months I have been on a mission, pushing myself and this style. It was always there but like most creatives I like to have a crack at everything and anything and I was so busy split between SunHouse, Bose Collins and my own freelance contracts I just couldn't focus.

The pivotal moment was after seeing one of my best friends, Ollie Munden. Over beers and burgers we talked about what we love - drawing and design and that arvo he introduced me to the brush-pen, the mechanical pencil and her fine pin-leaded friends! I returned to Bristol with a spring in my step and a clear idea of where to go and a rough idea how to do it. Plenty of fails later I eventually started to get to grips with a look and feel I was happy with. I know my way round Photoshop, so I looked at creating a technique, a process to help me achieve the look I was after. A way to compliment the hand drawn work but push it even further and that is how it has been night after night - seeing what works and what doesn’t. I have learned a lot in that time, rethinking how I work and what I can and can’t get away with.

I do it because I love it, and happen to think I’m good at it but at the end of the day, it has to make me money. It is a string to my bow ( I admit I would like it to be a big thick string! ) and the quicker I can turn the work around the better. 90% of this site’s work is this look I have been chasing and mastering. If you follow me, know me, have heard of me or seen any of my previous work you know I can do the other stuff too and I love it and will never give it up. A few projects here fall into those categories but a lot of this up here is me really enjoying myself again and I think it shows - plus it's a bonus when your being paid for it!

Cheers and enjoy

Chris