A Forest, some Underbros & some New Artwork

News for 2026

CUTTINGS - Antler Productions
​Written/Directed by Chloë Lawrence-Taylor & Paul Sirett. 
Starring Liam Murray Scott & Roseanna Frascona.
​Produced by Amelia Deering.
Terrified of the outside, a man finds escape by obsessively growing, cataloguing, and arranging plants inside his home. When his partner finally reaches breaking point, he must choose between losing her or facing up to his fear. A tender yet uncompromising portrait of agoraphobia, OCD, and how one couple navigates mental illness. 
14 minutes, Filmed on location in Cambridge, UK
Sunrise Film Festival 2025 (BIFA qualifying) - Awarded Best Sound Design

I worked as Art Director on this short film. This involved building a forest in a tiny terraced house with much channelling of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. It has been shown at various festivals and will be screened at  Little Venice Film Festival 2026. Tickets go live soon. so catch it if you can.

That very night in Max's room a forest grew/ and grew/ and grew until his ceiling hung with vines/ and the walls became the world all around...          

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Moon Girl's Dream, ink on paper

WELCOME TO THE UNDERBRO
I am proud that this drawing currently accompanies Natalie Shaw's fabulous and furious poem on Culture Matters: 

Welcome to the Underbro - by Natalie Shaw
Men’s stories, men’s stories, everything is men’s stories – Carmen Maria Machado

​​This is not a game      bros     orange Nobel Peace I was not culpable
prize             bros     I was not knowledgable          bros     international
non-deterministic god bros          of the brodom             luxury bros    
Read  in full

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 New Series of Work

THE WANDERERS

THE WONDER 

Two Flowers on a Mountain on a Boat at Night (detail). Oil on board, 16" x 20" 2025

THE WANDERERS are a series of images showing things that are traditionally rooted to the ground taking to boats to attempt escape from fire, flood, drought and other extreme weather phenomena. These paintings stem from a need to find some way of witnessing current climate challenges.

Flooding along the Betsiboka River & Estuary, NASA Science

A bacterial gene that enables organisms to survive in extreme, oxygen-depleted environments

THE WONDER is a more romantic series exploring responses to the natural and the fascinating ways that microscopic organisms mirror massive natural structures.

More on both these series as they develop. ​In the meantime, a belated Happy New Year and thanks for reading these posts.