Precious Places
Exploring the places we make ‘home’
Illustrating precious places where every building has a story. Places where we find peace and belonging, where we invest effort in our business. Places were we build a life.
They may be old industrial buildings now the base for a small business or workshops with craftsmanship at their heart or our home whether rented or owned.
They are the place where we lay our hat. The place that we make ‘home’. It represents who we are. When you choose a home, its because you connect with it somehow.
In the lockdown I drew my house, not as it was, but how it could be if I can ever finish its renovations. I like drawing paper renovations of derelict buildings, or renovated homes, pictured as they used to be or as they will be in time.
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Lily House: a place called Home
Using a couple of houses in Morrels Road in sunny Southville for reference, this is what I see. Inspired by the gold leaf name, bunting in the windows, an empty milk crate and forgotten window box of those houses.
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Cotswolds miniature chapel re-imagined
In real life this is a derelict little church. This is a paper renovation showing what it could have looked like and could be once again.
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Greville bay
Inspired by a beautifully decorated house in Greville Road, Bristol
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Kasa Chiropractic
Expressing the amount of love and effort self-employed people invest in their businesses.
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Modern House
A new build near where I live, with artistic license: drawing places is infectious. Click on it to see experiments with it
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Much loved Yafo
Gorgeous authentic felafel in a beautiful victorian shop that still possesses many of it’s original features that, surprisingly, people barely notice. Originally a butchers!
Tobacco Factory No1.
The Tobacco Factory in Bedminster, Bristol. Built by the Wills Company and part of a huge complex of buildings. Much of Bedminster was built to house and build a community for the workers. As someone who stood photographing so many of its intricate pieces, there is still a lot of pride around it in the local community. Its a real shame that the when the Wills needed to expand, they moved to the Cadbury Estate and left the whole area unemployed in the 1970’s.
From the moment it was built it was constantly being adapted to make more space as the company grew exponentially. The stage coach doors are an impression as the historic photos are quite blurred. A fun project that will probably keep on evolving thanks to digital media. Now called Tobacco Factory No1. it has been renovated into flats.