CASTANHEIRA ¦ Dressing lights

CASTANHEIRA ¦ Scenic birds

CASTANHEIRA ¦ Cows on stage

The first sketch in a series of drawings which will try to relate my mother's memories of my family home, Castanheira, with my own expectations for its future.

Artwork for Sherlock Holmes' map - open/close

Artwork for Sherlock Holmes' study

Two sketches for the Midsummer forest

Attempt at detailing Renaissance London

Artwork for stage floor

Artwork for Jack and the Beanstalk

Artwork for Jack and the Beanstalk

Sketch of Shakespear's Athens 2 - the forest

Sketch of Shakespeare's Athens 1

Sketch of Renaissance London

Hansel & Gretel

It's one of the best children's plays I've ever seen and certainly the best Hansel & Gretel!

I've been working on a production of the opera version of the story for the Royal Opera House, in London.

Although this production at the Gulbenkian Theatre, at UKC, Kent, is on the other end of the scale in budget and size, Lyngo Theatre Company has made it into an amazingly magical stage space.
Travellings beds with hat-pillows, a soft sugary moon and racoonish witches will envolve you, adults and children, in a story of love and hunger, where the darkest of places can become home.

Their website: www.lyngo.co.uk

Although I'm still commuting every day to work, I've been doing it by train as a way to keep myself healthier and happier. So, quite a lot of reading going on. This is the latest and finest: Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.
As a fan of his work I'm probably not the best person to criticise it since I always think their're absolutely brilliant! Theatre, cinema, books, are all about the ability to storytell. Its detailing, imagination and above all the fantastic linked to the everyday make characters, objects, settings part of the readers' mind. A delight to read for both adults and children. The sort of books I'll keep on my shelves as jewellery to wear during hard times.
Joyous train rides!!!

Commuting 5

Out of focus: colours on speed.

Commuting 4

Colours! Lots of colours in the grey desert that is the A13.

SHAKESPEARE characters

Here's Iago.
On route to commit his horrid crime!

SHAKESPEARE characters

Today the morning was the darkest it has ever been.
Cold, wet wind and a slight rain mad it impossible to use my camera but reminded me of the gloomiest of all plays: the one that shan't be named inside a theatre, MACBETH.
Here's his lady.

Commuting 3

Earth...

And fire...
Small signs of mother nature, lost in traffic.