I wanted to do something really different with this piece,
bringing all my skills together to make something amazing.
Created for long-time friends and musicians, Long Story Short.
I love working on things for people who understand that artists need to be creative. All I was given really was the album name and the idea to have a paper plane crashing, other than that, complete creative freedom. – I find the more freedom I’m given in a brief the crazier the finished piece seems to become.
I woke up on New Year’s Day 2018 a little hungover. I was staying with friends in Wales. Anna and Gaz live in the middle of nowhere in an old farmhouse with a view to die for, overlooking field upon field with Pen-y-fan in the furthest distance. Upon opening the curtains that morning, I had a flash of inspiration for the album cover I’d been asked to work on a few weeks prior. Coming up to Christmas, I’d had quite a few commissions to complete, so I had scheduled time in January to make a start on this project. The timing of the inspiration was perfect.
I wanted to work differently from how I usually do; I wanted something with texture and depth, which I knew my usual illustration style couldn’t provide. After getting home from Wales, I was packing the Christmas tree away when another flash of inspiration came to me in the form of a snow globe. Mountains in the background with hills and a snow-covered farmhouse in the foreground all in little plastic layers like a sandwich. The next day I started building the “Set” for the album cover.
