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loodles

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About Me


I have a passion for all things created by that grey matter we call a brain. I'm in love with the imagination and what it can bring to peoples lives. I love books and everything that comes with them. The way they smell, have been put together and the sympathetic juxtoposition of text and image. My major influence is and always will be children's books. I adore them...from Roald Dahl to Neil Gaiman and Helen Oxenbury to Dave McKean. I'm heavily influenced by the likes of Brian Froud and Tim Burton, but i'm always open to new illustrators work...I love life right now. I don't love sweetcorn or liver. I love my friends. I don't love control freaks. I love clicky pencils. I don't love bullies. I love hugs. I don't love the sound of a fork scraping a plate. I love hugging. I don't love fashion victims. I love the simplicity of a smile and the complexity of a daydream.



My Interests

Creative people.Children's Book Illustrating. Hugging. Fort building.

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I'd like to meet:

Anybody who has an ounce of creativity in their bones please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Music:

lamb, iko, elbow, athlete, Dr Hook, air, st germain, tracey chapman, herbie hancock, george michael, guarro, urban species (blanket), bomb the bass (say a little prayer), bent, Frou Frou, the murmurs, zero 7, john martyn, coldplay, ryan adams, nelly furardo, peter gabriel, keane, fairport convention, natalie merchant, nick drake, royksopp, the cure,

Movies:

My favourite films. In no particular order ...................................................... The Corpse Bride, The Nightmare before Christmas, Mars Attacks, Beetle Juice, Big Fish, Edward Scissor Hands, Lemony Snicket - A series of Unfortunate Events, Shadowlands, Young Frankenstein, Shrek 1 + 2, The snowman, The Chronicles of Narnia, Bugsy Malone - 1976, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 1968, Mary Poppins - 1964, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory - 1971 (Gene Wilder), Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory - 2005 (Johnny Depp), The Sound of Music - 1965, The Wizard Of Oz - 1939, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - 2001, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - 2002, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - 2003, The Princess Bride - 1987, Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone - 2001, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 2002, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 2004, Labyrinth - 1986, Monsters Inc, Willow, James and the giant Peach, Holes, The Dark Crystal, Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle, Fantasia, Mouse Hunt, Hook, Finding Neverland, Blazing Saddles, Groundhog Day, The Grinch, Scrooged, Fern Gully, Stuart Little, batman, It's a wonderful Life, Field Of Dreams, Yellow Submarine, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Big, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ghostbusters, Mrs Doubtfire, Star Wars 1+2+3, The Shawshank Redemption, Memento, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American History X, Donnie Darko, American Werewolf in London, The Sixth Sense, Zatiochi, V for Vendetta, The Green Mile, Stand by Me, Pollock, Pirates of the Caribbean 1+2, Citizen Kane, ............................................................ .......to be continued (my brain hurts)

Television:

Ugly Betty is the beesknees

Books:

In the Night Kitchen, Where the Wild Things Are, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Harry Potter, The Gruffalo, The Way I See It - David Hockney, The World of Froud, Calvin and Hobbes, Wolves in the Walls, The Little Prince, Five people you meet in heaven, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Power of Now, Writing with Pictures, Guten Morgen (J. Wilson)

Heroes:

Brian Froud, Tim Burton, Dave Mckean, Michael Foreman, Edward Ardizzone, Edward Gorey, Dalai Lamah

My Blog

slobbering labradors

(work in progress)After a short walk I finally reach my destination and I see it, I see the sea.An embarrassing memory enters my head as a girl all of 8 years old drops an ice cream onto her rubber sa...
Posted by loodles on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:55:00 PST

FEAR

I met HIM.I can't remember where. Might have been a coffee shop somewhere, or was it the library, the cinema or was it passing on the stairs? I don't remember the details. But i met HIM. We talk. We t...
Posted by loodles on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:14:00 PST

Night Terrors

VICE-LIKE pincers, finger arterial blockage,a nauseous wave of deep irresistible charmENTICED by sleeping perfumed breath,he appears as heaven and tastes like hellPRESSURE on the senses blindfolding r...
Posted by loodles on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:34:00 PST

gone but not forgotten

I miss my father.It's been nearly 20 years since he died and i have always missed him dearly but today i REALLY missed him. That's why i am writing this. As i never have done before. It might help.It'...
Posted by loodles on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:16:00 PST

just to reiterate

sitting here listening to Fink play a few tunes. I love his voice, sends me off into fantasy land.Well, all is going tikityboo at the moment. Hmm, that's a lie. Don't get me wrong i am absolutely happ...
Posted by loodles on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:01:00 PST

end of an era, beginning of a new book

Wow, it's been a while!Good to be back. Well it's good to be front too, and sideways and upside down. It's just good to be here writing all the gumph in my head. That's the trouble with FaceBook, you ...
Posted by loodles on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:50:00 PST

yipppeeeeeeee

Oh my dear lord.I have just read back through my blogs and boy do i miss writing them. I moved over to FaceBook (please feel free to make a spitting noise) because i got to be closer to my flesh frien...
Posted by loodles on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:50:00 PST

for my gramps

My word, it's been so long since i blogged. i think i may have forgotten how to do it....hmmm....what's this button do......oh that's just the apple sign on my computer. (I must not leave it so long n...
Posted by loodles on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:29:00 PST

*bloomin nora* the Macmillan Prize

Oh my dear lord....I have just found out after 4 days of staring at an email that i thought was spam, that i have been Highly Commended in the Macmillan Book Prize for Illustration.*hurrah* I didn't w...
Posted by loodles on Mon, 07 May 2007 12:25:00 PST

ok, so i lied. Here's another one...

i love cows...thanks for all your support whilst i have been tucked away doing all this work. It means a lot to me.x...
Posted by loodles on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:37:00 PST