illustration, words, motion graphics
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The absolute worst bit about having a website is the about blurb, so here are some bullet points.
- illustrator – trained at Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge, UK, early 90s. I illustrate anything. My first illustration was on my pillow when I was four.
- motion graphics designer – I make motion graphics and VFX for various producers. Portugal, UK and USA.
- writer – books (various), was a columnist at Observador 2015-2017, part of the RTP script team for Eurovision 2018, the Lisbon one. Spent a year opining about the news on Antena 1.
- books, mine:
- O Livro das Receitas Nojentas – Guerra e Paz 2006 (wrote and illustrated)
- Eat Portugal – Leya 2011 (with Célia Pedroso)
- Como Não Morrer de Fome/How Not to Starve in Portugal – Objectiva 2016 (wrote and illustrated, but just the cover, the rest is just WORDS)
- Friedrich (self-published 2016)
- The Village (self-published 2020)
- illustrating other people’s stuff
- Fama e Segredo na História de Portugal (Agustina Bessa-Luís)
- Atlântico Magazine
- Kulto Magazine
- Pais e Filhos magazine
- O livro das coisas boas
- O Melhor Pai no Mundo é o meu
- many other things in lots of different places.
- I’m British
- but have lived in Portugal since 1999
- I coped with the culture shock of living in Portugal (pre-Portugal being in fashion) by writing and drawing anonymously in a blog called Vitriolica. Annoyed quite a lot of people.
- I get quite snippy at people who move to Portugal and don’t learn Portuguese.
- I have two grown up daughters who have both gone off to be artists, one in graphics, one in ceramics, and I couldn’t be more proud.
- What else do you want to know?
