Marc Bessant

Sometimes the best thing for your work is just to do something different, something you enjoy but something of little consequence apart from your own distraction and enjoyment. Such is the case with some linocuts i’ve been doing when i get a minute from the daily grind and just to pep up my interest i thought i’d do cuts from some of my favourite movies – in this instance, Quints vessel Orca from ‘Jaws’, I think i’m gonna press 20 or so and flog them to like-minded buffs. Next up  - Devils Tower from CE3. 

A good friend of mine known to the Bristol head-banging community simply as ‘Topher the Mullet King’ has set out on a quest to adorn friends and foe alike in a range of T-shirts via a company he’s set up called ‘Hand Of Rock‘ which, as the name suggests is a celebration of Old Nicks Digits. He asked me to come up with a couple of designs, so i downed a bottle of Patchouli oil and splashed some Jack Daniels on my old leather jacket then jumped right in, and good fun it was too…