A-way

An illustration commission about Love.

A scutch of pictures featuring my work in our (Nous Vous) exhibition 'Flim, Flam, Flum' at KK Outlet. On until 31st of Jan if you fancy a real peep. 

I have a book launch at The Momosan Shop on 4th December, 6pm - 9pm and you’re invited! A picture book published by Hato Press, featuring illustrations of interiors, furniture, characters and wild animals. Nicolas Burrows will be singing some songs under his musical moniker ‘Fell’ and William Edmonds will be pouring some cocktails in a performative manner  from his lovely custom made SomeWow ‘West Coast Shandy’ cocktail jug. Hope you can make it!

I was invited by Mike Perry and Printed Pages to spend my Saturday (1st Nov) in Its Nice that's office drawing a series of naked volunteers for Nudes No.4 'Get Nude. Get Drawn'. Really fun day experimenting with different pens / pencils / implements. Getting loose and drawing quick.  Anyway there's an exhibition of the drawings produced by everyone at The Proud Archivist next Saturday (8th Nov) and you're invited to come for a look.

I have a piece of work in 'Toys' exhibition. Work is for sale with proceeds going to the 'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal Charity'. More info here: toys-exhibition.co.uk

Houses are built to stop the outside from getting in. ‘Wouldn’t it be nicer’ she thought; ‘if we didn’t know where one ended and the other began?’

— Early that day, wrapped in jackets, standing in boots they built a fortress inside their clothes.

— Once the noise had stopped and the house fell silent they lay and wandered through their thoughts.

— Buildings are like shelves, floor up on floor, stacked where people dwell. Live, eat, rest & heal and feel their world is well. 

— Once lit the candle never burnt out. The weather never changed, moderate warmth with grey. The plants didn’t grow, they moved slowly through each day as they watched and reached for the sun. 

— Some things were there for practical reasons, some there to provoke a memory, some to stimulate thought, some a sign of aspiration and some had simply found a place amongst the other things. 

— Legend has it that every book vanished once she’d read the final word. Every cup disappeared once she’d drank the last drop. Etcetera etcetera... 

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I spent three days at Esad Valance (École Supérieure d’Art et Design), a University toward the South of France, delivering a workshop to second year graphic design students as well as a lecture - open to the whole university. It was such a pleasure to teach at such a special place, what felt like an art & design bubble, full of students who love what they're doing. 

After a series of short visual exercises the students were asked to produce a poster that represented a 'boring' word I gave them: Hammer, Clock, Jacket, Spoon & Pencil. Only they weren't allowed to draw the object / thing or use any writing. The tough part: I insisted the first thing I thought when I looked at their poster is the word I had given them. 'Get Around It!'. After they'd produced the poster they were asked to take the idea a step further and produce an object, print or book, based on their poster. Special thanks to Tom Henni for inviting me and being 'un tres magnifique traducteur'. 

Clock: 2 circles representing the Sun & Moon, transforming across pages. A set of 12 was produced - an alternative, abstract clock.

The exhibition

Clock

Presentations

Hammer: Set of relief prints. The impression / image / pattern was made by hitting wood with a hammer on several small pieces of wood. Printed in various different compositions.

Spoon: A giant deconstructed, abstracted spoon with accompanying gestures. 

Spoon

Pencil: Transferring an entire pencil onto a long roll of paper to create a sculpture and extremely long drawing. (They measured whilst they were producing and I think it was around 30,000 kilometers long!). 

Hammer: The printing blocks.

Pencil: Testing ways of transferring entire pencil onto paper.

Jacket: Wrapping object that don't conventionally have a jackets / sleeves with make-shift jackets.

New website and new print online now:

www.jaycover.com

A Moor Relief print using the surface of my sculpture 'Any Moor'. I used a router to draw into birch ply, creating an abstracted interpretation of a puzzle maze. This piece was a continuation of several wooden sculptures I've made recently, which explore the idea of play in labour, play in communication and using a making process with inherent limitations, such as only being able to cut in a particular way or having to adjust the aesthetic to the tools I'm using. Printed on at London Centre For Book arts on an old proofing press. 400mm X 400mm, Limited edition of 10. On archival paper, using pure pantone (Salmon Pink) ink. £35 — Click here to buy.

£6 + P&P (Buy Here) A5, Edition of 30. Riso printed at London Centre For Book Arts. 2014. My new zine 'Castle', which I launched at ELCAF earlier this summer. A publication featuring minimal figurative drawings. An investigation into form, shape, character and mark-making.