I am a freelance technical illustrator capable of producing all kinds of cutaway drawings, exploded views, technical illustration, diagrams, schematics, maps, information graphics, step-by-step instructions, scientific and realistic illustration. I am also highly skilled in photo retouching and photo manipulation.

Based in London, but with clients in continental Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia as well as in the UK, I have worked extensively for a wide variety of editorial, advertising, marketing, engineering, manufacturing and publishing companies.

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Recent Work

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Ships & Boats

Boats U.S. A guide to boat owners to track down and correct the source of onboard vibration. ITW Performance Polymers A LNG (liquified natural gas) tanker demonstrating the usage of ITW’s products. Submarines & Submersibles Read more

Rail Transport

Merchant Navy Class Locomotive Thirty of these 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives were built at Southern Railway’s Eastleigh Works between 1941 and 1949 and were named after the Merchant Navy shipping lines involved in the Battle of the Atlantic. As Read more

Commercial Vehicles

B-Type Bus Built by AEC, who would later design the iconic Routemaster, the B-type was the first double-decker bus specifically designed for London’s streets. Designed by Colonel Frank Seattle and Walter Iden, the B-type featured Read more

Small Arms & Light Weapons (SALW)

Small arms are weapons designed for individual use, generally at the lower end of range of calibre for weapons of their kind–.50 calibre, or around 12 mm might be considered the upper limit for firearms. Light weapons are also man-portable such as general purpose or heavy machine guns, or those weapons that shoot explosive projectiles or incendiary devices like grenade launchers, mortars under 100 mm (4 inches) and Man-Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS).

Battle Maps & Tactics

The Sinking of the Bismarck Map of Operation Rheinübung–a sortie carried out by the new German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, with the intention of blocking Allied convoys. Thanks to the work Read more

Heavy Weapons

Heavy weapons are any weapons not considered small arms & light weapons (SALW). These are weapons that are too cumbersome for transportation by foot soldiers, and rely on fixed mountings on wheeled frames/vehicles, ships & submarines, aircraft or fortifications.

Multiplanes

In aviation, a multiplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration featuring multiple wing planes–these include biplanes, triplanes and tandem winged aircraft.

Aviation Accidents

Illustrations for “What Went Wrong–Twenty Years of Airline Accidents (1996-2015)” by Graham Deighton [Austin Macauley Publishers]. Trans World Airlines Flight 800, July 1996. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded Read more

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