It was great to see the walls finally full on my last day in the studio - we had over 400 visitors th

Chang Eng, original Siamese twins and freak show performers. In 1843, the brothers married sisters,

William F. Cody founded, "Buffalo Bill's Wild West,"in 1883, a circus-like extravaganza that toured t

We made giant matchbooks using illustration, design and hand lettering?

Bengal Tigers - Animal trainer, Van Amburgh, was a favourite of Queen Victoria who?commissioned artis

Sketchbook

I ran several workshops for kids, students and professionals in the studio as part of my residency

I just wanted to draw a?giraffe in a circus trailer :))In 1921 Barnum Bailey had a travelling show w

Jumbo - Proclaimed by Barnum to be the 'Biggest elephant in the world', Jumbo ?toured the US in the l

close up of the super large photocopies

?Bedouin Arabs - In my imagination, this is what a company of Bedouin Arab acrobats would look like :

During the 'open studio' sessions?the public could flick through my sketchbooks

sketchbook

Gardens and formed the 'Circus Suffrage Society". One newspaper report of the time tells of an incens

Sketchbook - Tattooed Lady - fibre tip pen over pencil

William Hayes and Harry 'Merry Benhaho' Benham toured Australia with their 2 man acrobaticsCharlie Ke

The daily sketches were enlarged to A0 size (841 x 1189 mm,?33.1" x 46.8") and hung along the walls o

Rather than doing a finished colour illustration (which was my first?thought), I decided to produce a

All that empty space was more than a little daunting :))

First day - The National gallery of Ireland,?Merrion Square West entrance (Dublin)Artist in Residence