I illustrated this collection of cinematic losers for Beneficial Shock magazine’s latest issue Winning and Losing.  I was asked to do it in the style of my existing Little Portrait sets and was happy to oblige - I’ve been a fan of this magazine for a while.


I had to break my self-imposed rules for this one, including a cartoon character (something I’ve refused to do in the past) and featuring 13 characters in a 12-character set, but 50+ sets in, I think I’m allowed a little wriggle room for the right cause.

The issue is out now and can be purchased direct from their website.

Last night was the third annual Terror On Tyne Film Festival at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle upon Tyne. I was asked by the organisers to illustrate this spooky Tyneside-flavoured border for the festival t-shirts.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend this year, but I was very pleased to see it was sold-out. I’m honoured to be associated with this home-grown festival of horror - long may it continue!

(Photos courtesy of Duncan Falconer)

My jigsaw is getting a John Lewis bespoke packaging option, so fingers crossed we'll be seeing it in the shops come Christmas time...

The 50th Little Portrait set is here!

My apologies for the delay, but better late than never...

Way back in 2012 when I started this little project, I was inspired by Christopher Nolan’s Batman films, so it seemed only fitting to cap 50 sets off with a tribute to Tim Burton’s pair of Batmans.

I was just the right age for these when they came out and was understandably Batmad about them. Returns was not only my first 12 certificate film (my parents snuck me into the cinema when I was only 11 and I thought it was the coolest thing they’d ever done) but it’s still my favourite Batflick (narrowly inching out The Dark Knight). I love everything about Burton’s twisted take on the Caped Crusader and it paved the way for my other favourite interpretation - the 90s Animated Series. Danny Elfman’s theme still sends shivers up my spine today.

I’m very excited to announce that I’ve illustrated my first jigsaw! The wonderful folks at Ridley’s Games invited me to illustrate the Christmas Movies entry in their Bucket List Puzzle series and here it is in all its 1000 piece glory. In this jigsaw there’s 50 classic, alternative and sometimes niche festive films to spot and add to your watchlist this coming Winter.

This one owned the latter half of my 2025 but was lots of fun to do. Em and I are massive jigsaw fans (as you will know if you ever set foot in our garage) and so this was a proper, well, bucket list assignment. I’ve tried to make the kind of jigsaw I would want to build (packed with little details) and so I hope other puzzlers will like it too.

The puzzle can be picked up online direct from Ridley’s, as well as Amazon and wherever else you may buy jigsaws. I’ve also been told there may be a John Lewis version coming to shops soon, which is rather exciting.