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I am very excited to announce my epic musical book The Legend of Kaptain Karnival is out now on the wonderful Velocity Press.

This is exquisitely printed 96-page hardback comes with a CD and streamable soundtrack for you to drift to as you delve into the illustrations on your magical voyage.   

Take yourself on a psychedelic hero’s journey in the quest to find out about this elusive icon: Deity, Confucius or downright cheeky monkey?

THE EXPLOSIVE ART SHOW

Come and see the art in the flesh in the form of diorama, painting and prints at Books on the Rise in Richmond, West London from 20th October to 10th November 2025.  Open daily except Mondays.

The show has been travelling around the UK throughout 2024/2025, kicking off with a summer stint in West End London at the stunning Farsight Gallery, followed by Bristol’s family-friendly Ardagh Community Centre, glorious Digbeth Art Space in Birmingham and the very funky Hotel Pelirocco, Brighton.

Keep an eye on the Kaptain Karnival website for details.   If you would like to host the explosive show at your venue please do get in touch.

And you can also buy limited edition giclée prints, signed and numbered, of your favourite scenes here. 

My art show at Brighton’s notoriously rock n’roll party/crashpad, Hotel Pelirocco is now sadly over, but you can still buy some of the prints and other pieces, see the catalogue here.

There are several lovely big print adaptations of some of my more recognisable sleeves for Finger Lickin’ Records and local label Freshly Squeezed, plus a new range of my subverted scenes dedicated to the saucy seaside city of Brighton.

The Pelirocco, don’t you know, has played host to all manner of celebrities and rock gods, from New York Dolls, Primal Scream, Scissor Sisters to Bez from Happy Mondays – here he is during his visit to Regency Square:

 You can view the full catalogue here.

Many thanks to Hotel Pelirocco – a great place for your next dirty weekend, tell them I sent you!

I had a blast chatting with Janette Slack for her Beats & Peaces show on Hong Kong’s Clockenflap Radioabout about music, record sleeves, how we got Finger Lickin’ Records going, my classical family background and so much more.

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I’m honoured to have been asked to adapt some of my subverted prints of Richmond and Twickenham for the wonderful Stables Café in the grounds of Orleans House, Twickenham. Some of these etchings and engravings are adapted from the collection of my great-grandmother, Nellie Ionides who had a home in the borough from 1928 until her death in 1962, spending her time here committed to protecting its natural beauty and heritage.It’s a beautiful old cobble-stoned venue with original Georgian stable divides, and in a lovely coincidental local twist the café new owners had approached me having seen my work elsewhere and they were not to know from my Polish surname that it was my great-grandmother who had purchased that exact building in 1928, alongside the magnificent Gibbs Octagon Room, rescuing it all last minute from destruction by the gravel merchants who had already quarried tons from the site.Deeply enamoured by the borough having moved here almost a century ago, on her death in 1962 she left it all to the borough with the instructions that it should be used as an art gallery for the people of Twickenham, housing her now-famed collection of local etchings, paintings and prints, which was also all bequeathed to the borough. What she would make of my interpretations is another story – but I am told she had a great sense of humour…

Click here for Stables Café address and website