The absolute worst bit about having a website is the about blurb, so here are some bullet points.
- I’m an illustrator – trained at Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge, UK, early 90s. I illustrate anything. My first illustration was on my pillow when I was four. I make my living between illustration and motion graphics. Speaking of which,
- I’m a motion graphics designer – I make motion graphics and VFX for various producers in the UK, Portugal, and USA.
- I’m a writer – I have written books, was a columnist at Observador 2015-2017, was part of the RTP script team for Eurovision 2018, the Lisbon one. I opined about the news on Antena 1, being the annoying English one between Catarina and Dora.
- books of mine:
- O Livro das Receitas Nojentas – Guerra e Paz 2006 (wrote and illustrated)
- Eat Portugal – Leya 2011 (with Célia Pedroso)
- Como Não Morrer de Fome/How Not to Starve in Portugal – Objectiva 2016 (wrote and illustrated, but just the cover, the rest is just WORDS)
- Friedrich (self-published 2016)
- The Village (self-published 2020)
- I’m British
- but have lived in Portugal since 1999
- I coped with the culture shock of living in Portugal (pre-Portugal being in fashion) by writing and drawing anonymously in my blog called Vitriolica. Annoyed quite a few people. I now write a couple of times a week in my substack newsletter called Pretending about things Portugal, and things art. I try very hard not to write about things political.
- I get quite snippy at people who move to Portugal and treat it like a cheap playground, especially those who don’t learn the language. IT IS NOT THAT HARD.
- I have two grown up luso-british daughters who have both gone off to be artists in the world, one in graphics, one in ceramics, both of them brilliant, of course. I couldn’t be more proud.
- Don’t bother to follow me on social media any more, I’m trying to not use them any more, except for the odd link to my site or substack.
- What else do you want to know?
