We're at the time of year in the foundation studio where i hear the phrase 'I want to kill myself' more than once a day. Yes! That's right, we're all preparing work  for out portfolios so that we might stand a chance at getting into a decent art school. There has been plenty going on at Byam Shaw School of Art including not least of all the big scary people at Central Saint Martins trying to ruin everything here. As it turns out they are more or less doing away with Byam Shaw as a School and just using it as a bit of extra studio space. There will be no fine art foundation any more!!!!! CSM has also decided that it is a good idea to put all of its students into one big art student factory near kings cross next year instead of having a few nicer sized buildings dotted around central London. ANYWAY rant over. I don't want to turn into a ranter.  

Here are a few images of my work and a few sketchbook pages to boot! When It's all down here on little JPEGs it doesn't actually look like I've done that much work but it certainly feels like I've had my nose t't grindstone for a while. 

Salman Taseer as Saint Sebastian. If any of you have been keeping up with world affairs recently you will know that the Pakistani governor Salman Taseer was assassinated by his security guard because Taseer was opposed to the country's blasphemy laws. I had been looking a lot at religious art and saw an obvious parallel between this incident and the martyred saints.