Conjectural reconstruction of a medieval chapel at the St. Mary Magdalene Leper Hospital, Winchester, with a 'cutaway' showing a tomb robbery taking place during the years the hospital was used as a Napoleonic prisoner of war camp. I also made a conjectural detail illustration (below) of the skeletons of an adult and child from the grave in question. These drawings were commissioned to illustrate a hypothesis in an undergraduate dissertation. Pencil on paper, 2010.
Reconstruction of a c.1500 English woman, after a drawing by Hans Holbein. The illustration was commissioned to accompany the display of a medieval dress-hook in the Oxfordshire Museum. Dress-hooks were used to left the hem of fashionably long and heavy dresses, in order to keep the fabric out of the dirt. I also made a detail illustration (below) of the dress-hook to accompany the main illustration. Both illustrations are watercolour and pencil on watercolour paper. 2010.
Reconstruction of a 1st century AD Romano-British woman having her hair styled using carved bone pins. Watercolour & pencil on watercolour paper. 2009.
The pins and bronze mirror in the painting were based on Roman finds held in the Swindon Museum.
Reconstruction of Bronze Age hunters on the Thames Flood Plain, Oxfordshire, created to illustrate the use of bronze spear heads found in the area and displayed in the Oxfordshire Museum. Watercolour & crayon on watercolour paper, 2009.
Visualisation of the deposition of human remains within the first mortuary structure at Wayland's Smithy 1, according to Professor R.J.C. Atkinson's published theory, 1965. Watercolour & crayon on watercolour paper, 2009.
Visualisation of the first timber mortuary structure at Wayland's Smithy 1, according to Professor R.J.C. Atkinson's published theory, 1965. Watercolour & crayon on watercolour paper, 2009.
Visualisation of the deposition of human remains within the first mortuary structure at Wayland's Smithy 1, according to Ian Kinnes' published theory, 1975. Watercolour & crayon on watercolour paper, 2009.
Visualisation of the first timber mortuary structure at Wayland's Smithy 1, according to Ian Kinnes' published theory, 1975. Watercolour & crayon on watercolour paper, 2009.
Visualisation of the deposition of human remains within the first mortuary structure at Wayland's Smithy 1, according to Alisdair Whittle's published theory, 1991. Watercolour & crayon on watercolour paper, 2009.
Visualisation of the first timber mortuary structure at Wayland's Smithy 1, according to Alisdair Whittle's published theory, 1991. Watercolour & crayon on watercolour paper, 2009.
Above is a series of six visualisations of the first mortuary structure at Wayland's Smithy 1, a Neolithic mortuary structure and (later) oval mound located on the Ridgeway near Ashbury in Oxfordshire, UK.
There are three published interpretations of the evidence excavated at the site in the early 1960s; Atkinson's theory (1965), Kinnes' theory (1975) and Whittle's theory (1991). Each theory has been visualised in a pair of images; one showing the deposition of remains and one showing the form of the mortuary structure, each according to that particular theory.
The images were later incorporated into a series of interactive pages, which can be viewed on this site on the page called 'Wayland's Smithy 1 Interactive'.
Late 13th Century Man-at-Arms. Gouache on watercolour paper. 2006.
Early 14th Century Lady. Gouache on watercolour paper. 2006.
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14th Century Lady fastening turret annular brooch. Gouache, acrylic & pastel on watercolour paper. 2007.
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Visualisation of Maud de Braose & child at Painscastle, Powys, Wales, in 1198. Gouache & crayon on watercolour paper. 2008.
Visualisation of the arming of Maud de Braose prior to the siege and Battle of Painscastle, Powys, Wales, in 1198. Gouache & crayon on watercolour paper. 2008.