Studio News January 2026
It’s been a busy start to the year in the studio. I’ve begun a full-scale reorganisation of the space: moving desks, rejigging storage, and crucially, binning things to make room for the new. I am a hoarder. I’m convinced these offcuts of wood will be useful one day; the same goes for that old light fitting, and so it goes on until the studio is full of crap. This process of organising and binning will be ongoing, cathartic, and is long overdue.
In the meantime, production continues. This month I’ve printed new custom track tops, produced a small Barbican detail for Postcard Club, overprinted an old print on wood to correct an error that’s been irritating me for some time, and refinished some of the last remaining pieces on wood with a resin finish.
One piece that’s been back on the table this month is Kyoto Street Scene, a print on wood originally made in 2021. The final print was never quite right. A character in the background — something that worked well in the digital proof — didn’t translate successfully in the finished print. On the wood, the line work felt too weak and the figure slipped into the background in a way that flattened the scene.
This month I revisited the piece and overprinted the character using a soft grey silhouette, sitting behind the original line drawing. It’s a small intervention, but it anchors the figure properly and restores the sense of depth that was missing from the first version. The change is subtle, but it brings the print much closer to what I had in mind when the piece was first made.
Postcard Club — January
The January Postcard Club print is a small detail of the balconies at the Barbican. There are few buildings as instantly recognisable — even from a fragment like this, you know exactly where you are. That’s something I’ve always liked about the Barbican: the architecture holds together even when you isolate just a small part of it.
As part of the studio tidy, I came across four pieces from the resined prints on wood series that had been damaged and needed refinishing. I sanded them back to remove the damaged surface and prepare them for a fresh coat of resin, then recoated them and left them to cure for three full days in the print studio.
There’s still a bit of finishing to do — sanding the resin drips from the backs and fitting the hanging fixtures — but they’re nearly there and will be going online soon.
I’ve been gradually collecting vintage Adidas tops and they’ve been piling up in the studio. This month I carved out a couple of days and printed ten new ones. I enjoy the challenge of working with these — trying to match each print to the character of the top itself. There’s a deep satisfaction in knowing that each one will soon become someone’s favourite new top.
Alongside making things physically, I’ve been illustrating and planning future prints. I’ve enjoyed revisiting the prints on wood from previous editions and it feels like the right moment to introduce some new work on wood.
Looking back through Postcard Club prints from previous years, I’ve decided to develop two new still lifes on wood: one of the pencil sharpener on my desk, and another of a plant pot in front of a window. The images below are digital mock-ups — check back next month to see how they turn out.
