Core
The Battle of the Nile
Amongst the melons 10 miles from the Pyramids
Computer, sketch book and cat
Over a year of sporadic research
Napoleon reclines on silken cushions.
Another illustration for the story of "Zarafa, a wonderful gift for a king".
Muhammad Ali 1805 Pasha of Egypt
The main protagonist, who chose to send a giraffe to King Charles X of France as a diplomatic gift.
The Blue Camel
The mother giraffe slain by an assassin, the infant Zarafa is helpless and dependent on camel's milk.
Sailing down the Nile in a Felucca.
From Khartoum to Alexandria.
Zarafa spends time in Alexandria before boarding ship to sail to Marseilles.
Illustration for Zarafa.
Sailing past Etna
Sea voyage for Zarafa.
The long walk begins
Spring has arrived and she can commence her long journey North to Paris.
Other works
Feeding from the hands of Florentine ladies
Zarafa's predecessor.
Charles X
Bourbon King gifted Zarafa
Paris
Finally arrived at her destination, she is encouraged to gallop in the palace gardens.
Inspiring faces
Sometimes you don't realise where your inspiration comes from until afterwards.
Inspiring places
Sometimes you seek out subjects you need to educate your eye.
Real people to furnish a re-telling of an old story.
Real people to furnish a re-telling of an old story.
Colours everywhere
Combined light sources.
Sunrise
Association of places, traces of the journey from the Sudan to Paris.
Pink
Pink
Pink mauve sky
A mark made quickly stays for ever
Zarafamania Montage
The fashion for everything giraffe, clocks, teapots, fans, inkwells.
Drawings in process
Zarafa's tranportation by ship and other drawings
Baby crocodiles
Close up detail of this illustration
Detail of Egyptian Mangoose
Close up detail of this illustration
Etienne Geoffroy Saint - Hilaire
Close up detail of this illustration
Sketchbook 1
Disparate images inform my practise
Study after Daumier 2
Looking at how Daumier approached a similar subject to mine
Study after Daumier
Crowd scene
The masculine
Source material in my sketch book
Here Today
Gone Tomorrow
Pineapple colours
Searching
Upside
Overlooked
Zarafa is presented to the King at St. Cloud, Paris
The transition from an abstract to an illustrative artist
To the lighthouse from Night to Day
When enough is enough
From a cube of colours
How do you bridge the gap?
To the lighthouse from Night to Day
When is enough, enough?
Interim Show in April 2015
A show of work to mark progress at 8 months into the project
Raising the roof
An imagining of how it might have looked to have rebuilt a barn to accommodate a taller guest just for one night
Incidents en route
Starting over, engaging the gears
Drawing from the computer
Source material is on the internet, and in the local zoo
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