Sunday 16 August 2015


My cover for Barbara Pyms beautiful novel Quartet in Autumn.

In 1970s London Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly and with delightful humour, Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, and - perhaps most keenly felt - their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them

Tuesday 11 August 2015

Tuesday 14 July 2015

When I was 10 years old I had a pet hamster called Fluffy.
One of the joys of owning a hamster in the 1990s was the exciting new range of hamster cages, with plastic domed compartments and expandable tube systems to collect and assemble.
Every weekend I would rearrange Fluffy’s cage into increasingly elaborate constructions resembling miniature moon bases or futuristic theme parks, before returning him to shuffle, disoriented, around his new environment.
One Saturday I decided to give Fluffy a “penthouse suite,” by placing his bedroom compartment at the very top of a long series of plastic tubes, and I watched him sleepily shuffle his way up to his nest.
I imagined him waking up in the morning and pressing his face to the plastic wall of the compartment, gazing out at a spectacular view across my bedroom, but instead when I woke I found his lifeless little body crumpled at the bottom of the tube.
I never quite forgave myself.
Published on The New York Times My Childhood Pet feature
NYTimes Illustration from last Sunday
How Therapists Mourn by Robin Weiss

Wednesday 28 January 2015

Monday 5 January 2015




Some post-Christmas Illustrations in The Washington Post