About the Artist: "The decision to do anthropomorphic animal characters was inspired by my memories of reading books like Rupert Bear and the work of illustrators like Richard Scarry. As for the themes for the pictures, I just chose things that I enjoy. I like lighthouses, I like to read about naval history in the age of the tall ships and I enjoy sci-fi shows and books, and so they have become the themes for my pictures. They might be cartoony in style but I make sure I do my research and gather hundreds of reference pictures on my subjects before I set about drawing and painting them. Making sure I get the period uniform of a Royal Navy Marine from Nelson’s navy as accurate as I can, might seem like an odd thing to do in a picture populated by caricatures of rabbits and rats but I suppose that’s one of my little foibles."
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