The Portrait Show

On a recent visit to Otley to see family in the house where I grew up good friend & designer Dave King came over and the conversation flowed into a collection of topics We spoke about… 🎶 -  The Beatles -  We explored the idea of getting out of your own way and letting creativity flow reflecting on how if John and Paul had judged their early ideas too much the world might never have seen the m...

Recently met Sian Carr a childhood friend and Phycologist in Otley the town where we both grew up We spontaneously started recording our conversation which flowed into a shared stream of consciousness — We spoke about… How the distinctive sound of someone’s voice can feel like home and connect you back to the experiences you shared with that person How to capture the authentic nuance of a conversa...

Do you ever feel like you are not ready to do something? or spend time talking about doing the thing? or get stuck planning time to do the thing? — Marcus is a motivational speaker & coach & musician. We met for a coffee for the first time to talk about how we could collaborate One of the things we spoke about came to life We got talking about our passion for writing songs then started tal...

If you want to do something go let yourself out and play and create and share with someone because you never know what it might mean for them I went for dinner in Unithai a family run Thai restaurant in Hove in an unexpected conversation with Mr Phong (the owner) we got talking about music sparking an act of genorisity within him lending me his Phin a Thai string instrument I returned the Phin tod...

If you made a song in under 5 minutes and shared it with the world how would it sound?

Mark Currie is a filmmaker & a family friend & an Everton fan & once a football coach In 1993 Mark created the story The Man Who Was Different which celebrates the importance of difference and being yourself I first heard about the story in the 2020 lockdown impacting me on my own journey of expressing my inner self outside I was lucky to have a chance to sit down with Mark to hear abo...

Had a Friday night out with Tim Keiff in Bradford Tim is a Design Leader & a Father & a good mate of mine When I freshly graduated in 2014 I was lucky to join and become part of XD the experience design team Tim started & led within DAZN (called Perform at the time) Two blokes in a pub on a Friday night we reflected back on the 10 years since how a Friday night was then vs how it is to...

Simon came over for a cup of tea to talk about being the first guest on a podcast whilst being the first guest on the podcast Simon is the author of ‘Reframing Marketing’ We met cold water sea swimming at IceBreakers Simon commissioned me to create their portrait and a friendship evolved organically since On the episode Simon shares their story from being a kid in Chichester to sound engineering o...

Why just talk about a podcast when you can talk about a podcast whilst being on a podcast? I went to see Karl for a cup of tea catching up on life we spoke about starting a podcast whilst starting a podcast. We met cold water swimming in Brighton & Hove within the IceBreakers community we’ve become good mates since bonding over product designing life and musing over the twists & turns we g...