I'm delighted to announce that my 'weapons' T-shirt for Dirty Old Town has arrived. That's me in the picture modelling it, infact I'm in a very good and excited mood.

Another awesome job by Bristol's finest Uno One Print in Stokes Croft. The run of 35 garments look striking on black and charcoal grey Continental T-shirts.

Thanks to all who got in early on the pre-orders, and for those who are yet to, plenty of mediums are available in both colours. Anyone interested in buying one should email me, but do so quickly, these guys won't be hanging around for long!

In other news: I've set up a Facebook page as my central forum for showcasing my work blog/stylee so be sure to check it out and give it a 'like'. In the new year (maybe sooner, but highly unlikely) mo75.co.uk will be getting a makeover.

It's been an extremely busy and exciting month already. I'm exhibiting some of my canvas work in Urban Outfitters at Cabot Circus, in Bristol. It's under the stairs at the back in the bar area. As well as putting the work on the wall they let me paint a massive 3x4 meter swallow as a backdrop which sets the wall off nicely (shown in the pic, before the work went up).

The exhibition is titled 'Long time listener, First time caller' and displays 10 of the current faces from the 'Heroes of Horror' series, a triptych called 'Love Thy Neighbour', 'Trainers', 'Predator' and a pair of swallows. The collection is "broadly themed around horror, sci-fi, and tattoo with a nod to old school computer game aesthetic with a dose of simplistic retro charm". On show now for the next 5 weeks, so be sure to go and check it out. All work is for sale, pricing details to follow.

I'm amassing a cache of weapons to use against the world. And here is the first batch. I'm not sure making these could ever get boring.

I'm interested in vintage old school tattoo designs and thought it'd be nice to focus some work in that direction. It's obvious that the style i'm working in can in no way related to old school, in any way other than content and themes. It certainly gives a nice focus to my experimenting. The swallow design, and playing cards are in the bag, and i'm now going to figure out what else I can make. This is a faux screen print poster that i'm actually digging to the extent i may have to go and do it for real.

Some time ago I set myself the task of applying my stylised heads to something tangible and meaningful. I admit that making a deck wasn't my own original idea, I was actually inspired by a colleague doing his own set, but strangely I should have seen the obviousness from the beginning, considering I had designed the skull and beardy man to interlock, and be rotatable, just as cards are. Further back along, maybe 2 years, I began weaving the idea of a story using the card suits, relating all kinds of symbolism, but for the subsequent 2 years I've not gone near the subject, until now, and doing this has spawned the desire to finish the former project, so there is a good chance i may now extend the playing card thing further that just the cards.


It was necessary to develop a typeface within my minimalistic constraints (90º & 45º lines only) which proved interesting, and achievable within a 2x3 grid (some characters remain work-in-progress but the draft is there).

This project also forced me to consider how a woman might look in the style, something I'd been putting off because of self doubt, but I'm really pleased with how the 4 Queens turned out. Finally, while attempting to create a snail I ended up making a swallow, and I was so chuffed it worked its way onto the reverse of the cards.

It's official, the store is open for business! Now go and buy yourself/friends/partners/neighbours a piece of art and as a result, keep me in spray cans for the next month.

Original mo75 box canvas stencils now available at £30 each or 3 for £75 (add £3 per item for p&p). At the moment only one of each exists and there are 3 new designs in the pipeline so watch this space. Please email me if you want to reserve buying one because they are going to be on ebay and my store which will be going live in a few days.

Created an island-less stencil from my skull design with minimal tweaking needed. The main addition to the design is a join through the eye and I actually quite like it that way.

Finally got around to finishing the website i promised my parents to advertise the sale of their holiday home in Dawlish Warren's Hazelwood Park. It's a really nice location so if you are interested after viewing the site please give them a call. It's on offer for £48,000 and is worth every penny.

View the website here

The recently completed website www.MarkCollinsPR.com for a friends PR consultancy.

Accidental iPhone photo. Looked kinda interesting.

Masks for 'fancy face party' for a friends 30th birthday. Cut from velvet coated plastic masks and decorated with white and black acrylic paint.

I started to worry my traditional skill was shriveling up and dying so i sketched my ceramic skull, and i was pretty happy with the result. I'm going to extend this into a side project with some digital colouring.