Archives: Projects
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NV200 Self-Build Campervan Conversion
In March of 2021 I finally pulled the trigger and purchased a new (to me) van! What I purchased was this lovely 2018 Nissan NV200 in ‘Acenta’ trim. I’ve spent the rest of 2021 building the van out as a mobile office for my photogrpahy work, as well as an all-round campervan and adventuremobile! I’ve […]
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Illustrating the world of ‘Ethersea’
The Adventure Zone was the podcast that first got me into the weird and wonderful world of Dungeons & Dragons, and helped spark an interest in illustrating the worlds and scenes from shows that would eventually lead me to things like creating the world map for Bahumia. Initially started in 2014 as a spin off […]
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Drawing Not Another D&D Podcast’s “Map of Bahumia”
In 2020, I got the fantastic opportunity to create and illustrate a full map of Bahumia, the setting of the popular American Dungeons & Dragons podcast “Not Another D&D Podcast” ( or “NADDPOD”). The show recently concluded it’s first 100-episode campaign set in this fun fantasy realm and the team behind Naddpod reached out to […]
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Creating Raasay Gin: Harder Than You Think
Yes, Raasay now has a fully-fledged botanically infused spirit made using a selection of Raasay botanics, distilled in the distillery pot stills and hand-bottled by our assorted team of local spirit-makers. Gin is an amazing product in just how consistently popular it is, and currently with no signs of this fashionableness slowly, either. Initially, I […]
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Restoring a 1940s ‘Paramo’ Vice
This video project has been the first of what I hope will be many videos that involves working and creating inside my new workshop. On my blog in the past I have discussed my ongoing efforts to turn my grandfathers old shed into ‘the workshop’ and the main focal point of every good work space […]
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The Snow Cruiser-Antarctica’s Abandoned Behemoth
No place on earth carries the same level of mystery, sense of discovery or adventure than that of the frozen continent of Antarctica. Since the tentative discovery by Captain Cook in the 1770s and it’s eventual sighting by Von Bellingshausen in the 1820s, people have been desperate to understand, explore and lay claim to this […]
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The Story So Far: Announcing the Raasay Single Malt
One of my projects at the start of 2019 was preparing content to announce and celebrate the opening of pre-orders for the first Raasay Single Malt, due in 2020. Some of these attempts I detailed on the blog as I was making them up. On Friday the 15th of February, our big announcement went live, […]
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ØY Festival 2018: Is there Anyone Out There?
Moti, the brilliant wee Orkney Art Collective that I’ve worked several times in the past, was involved in a similarly brilliant project in November of 2018, Papa Westray’s ØY Festival. ØY is a yearly arts festival held on the tiny island of Papa Westray, one of the most northerly, remote islands in the Orkney archipelago. With […]
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Building a Scottish Monster Hunting Kit
This was, by far, one of my favourite creation so far. Back in 2017, Moti was invited to exhibit in one of Orkney’s newest venues, The Old Library, in the middle of Kirkwall. We decided upon the theme of Folklore, and each of us set about trying to create pieces to represent aspects or influences from […]