40 Artists, a four letter word each, a 4 colour palette. Here’s a little explanation of my piece for Unlimited Gallery’s “Four Play” group show at Boxpark shipping container mall in Shorditch, London.

In April 2015 40 artists were given a FOUR letter word to illustrate in their own distinctive visual style, using a fixed palette of FOUR spot colours. Unlimited design studio then incorporated their word into each artwork, creating a unique typographic response for each and an exciting collaborative final piece.
Then there was a Pop-Up show: ‘Unlimited FOUR PLAY’ at the super cool shipping-container-shopping-mall BOXPARK, Shoreditch.

*That's definitely a bear.... yep....it is a bear..*

So I chose the word REAL from the selection of four letter words provided by Unlimited Gallery.

I based my own piece on some forest exploration on a road trip in Canada not so long ago...
Having never encountered a bear in the wild before, and after countless 'jokes' from Canadians telling me to watch out for grizzlys, I was entirely convinced that there was a 50/50% chance I was going to end up as a bear's dinner.

I literally believed that this was an absolute likelihood.

So, every forest hike was bittersweet as I enjoyed the unbelievable beauty and peace, but at the same was gripped with a very real fear. Out of the corner of my eyes, I kept seeing things move in the shadows and start creeping closer... This continued for days, until finally I realised that none of that was actually happening... that there was never anything there watching... and creeping towards me.. it was all in my mind!

Yet I really saw them!!?

Or did I?