Red Riding Hood - Engine House Theatre / Lakeside Arts Centre

Final Design for Red Riding Hood, written by Mike Kenny, directed by Matt Aston.

The production will be at Lakeside Arts Centre this Christmas then touring nationally in 2012.

Final model photographs...

Red Riding Hood - Lakeside Arts Centre

Its ideas stage - we are talking about an attic room setting and today I found this beautiful photograph which I find quite exciting. I love the colourings in the wood and the light through the window.

Final Design, Great Expectations, The Watermill, Newbury.

Photographs of the finished model showing the set design.

'All Join In' Polka Theatre - Production Photographs

Photographs of my latest show at Polka Theatre for Children - 'All Join In'.

Directed by Roman Stefanski, Musical Director - Ben Glasstone

Great Expectations, Watermill, Newbury

Initial Design Concept

Rough Model

Oleanna Lakeside Arts Centre

The finished set in situ.....

All Join In Final Design Work

The Tempest, The Swan, RSC

A few pics of the set....

Drawing Fashion, Design Museum

This is a wonderful exhibition, really inspiring, especially the monotype prints.

I loved the work of Francois Berthoud, beautiful collaged images.

Frankenstein, National Theatre

I went and saw the much acclaimed Frankenstein last week at the National Theatre, directed by Danny Boyle. I have mixed feelings about the script and some of the acting but the design was stunning - most notably the 3000 light bulbs creating this extraordinary canopy.

Wow!

All Join In Polka Theatre

Initial model ideas for 'All Join In'. A musical for children based on the illustrated stories of Quentin Blake.

Oleanna Lakeside Arts Centre

Another model picture with a bit of atmospheric lighting!

Oleanna Lakeside Arts Centre

Model Box

Production Opens 11th April

The Tempest RSC/LAT 1st day of rehearsals

Flats East London

Walking east along the canal from Kings X to Victoria Park I spotted this derelict block of flats. The boarding up of each window shows a picture of the person who used to live there.

Set Build The Tempest RSC/LAT

Visited Stratford today to see the progress of the set. It is all coming together as I hoped thanks to the skills of the RSC workshop. Show starts rehearsals in London in just over a week.

Norman Rockwell Dulwich Picture Gallery

1st trip to Dulwich Picture Gallery today. The collection of paintings is incredibly varied and I particularly enjoyed the Norman Rockwell retrospective.

This one is his cover for the Evening Post on April 1st. I think there are over 50 April fools in the painting.

The game of Bridge was a favourite too.

Gauguin Tate Modern

Just managed to make the Gauguin exhibition in its final week. The collection is really overwhelming and charts his whole life. He was a master of colour, the yellow and flecks of red in this one are sublime.