Ned Fairlie
My own long-running series, and how I learnt this style: hundreds of viaducts so far, brick and stone, big and small, in every light and season the Peaks can throw at them. I still draw a new one most weeks between commissions. I print the ones I like, and a few local cafés and art studios sell them for me.
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A picture for every book in a reading app that gives you one great work a day. Hundreds of pages so far, each with its own weather. My biggest project.
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A pair of posters for a small folk festival on the east coast: the beach huts in the morning, and the bandstand at the end of the pier when the lights come on. The brief was one line long. Make people want to be there at both ends of the day.
Cover artwork for a small press's run of poetry collections. Each one is a single object in a garden or on a shore, with a band of plain colour left across the top for the press's own type. They wanted the books to look like a set on the shelf and still be told apart from across a room.
A print for two people who got engaged on the deck of an overnight crossing. They sent me the date, the route and a blurry phone photograph of the moon. I drew the boat small and the sea big, because that is how they remembered it.
