Tag Archives: Early Days

This is my vinyl cut version the same illustration. After scanning, I added colour in Photoshop. I really like the colour version, but this one has a great kind of Polish, or Day of the Dead-ish feel, and somehow also has a rather odd similarity to the ink drawings done by fellow illustrator Jesse Breytenbach …

At the end of last year I bought the 2006 Big Issue calendar, but it was a sympathy buy, as it was very ugly (sorry guys). I was about to put it in the recycle bin, until I realised the back of each page was nice smooth white paper. Hmm… potential. So I sat down …

It’s nice to find things you’d forgotten about. I made this cut paper work for the first Drawing Room show in May 2005. I wonder who has it now?

I just got this off the Oshun Books site. It’s a cover I did earlier this year. I provided the illustration in separate black vinyl elements that I’d cut by hand, and then the designer worked at getting colour in. Something this pic doesn’t show is that the pink flowers and butterflies are all foiled, …

Jesse and I have a collaboration called Heather & Jesse, where we pool our skills as illustrators and crafters, to work together on projects. We’ve had some great jobs from ad agencies and from a publishing company, and have got some top publicity in local interiors and design magazines too. Take a look at Jesse’s …

Here Be Lions is a memoir of a childrens author who grew up in a rather disfunctional family in 1970’s South Africa. The publishers wanted a cover that would convey both a feeling of a South African middle-class childhood, as well as a sense of menace. They also wanted to include a childhood photo of …

At high speed, due to an insane deadline, Jesse and I embroidered these cloths that Jupiter Drawing Room turned into giant posters for Musica. We didn’t do the illustration, just the handwork, and I see that the campaign was awarded a bronze at the recent South African ad awards! Unfortunately, I never got to see …