This piece was essentially inspired by the Guns N’ Roses song “coma”. In that song you can clearly hear the breathing, the heartbeat, and the brain is disconnected. Everything is jumbled up, the organs.

This is an ongoing exploration and it shows the progression of my illustrative style. I was originally going to include other things such as a telephone and my intention was to do a digital illustration. But I decided to start by doing an artwork (or a series of artworks) on paper that just featured bodily organs instead.

This is one of my earliest works in this series. You can tell because I don’t draw/paint the hearts with the veins in them anymore. These days I still draw the valves coming out of the heart so that they join ‘continuously’ with the other objects (if you get my drift). I think this is possibly the first work to depict that. The only difference is, these days I tend to always draw the valve tubes in a beige/off-white colour.

Also, my brains have evolved somewhat and if you look at any of my more recent works, they kind of resemble walnuts now. This brain has a more traditional, random, less stylised approach to it.

And lastly, you may notice that I don’t draw tracheas with concentric circles on them anymore (and again, this work is one of the first to show that way of doing it).

This is one of the first of two works in which I really started to control the colours of pigments in my watercolour palette (after I got rid of a load of pigments that I didn’t like). I incorporated more neutral pigments in the overall colour palette, giving it a more harmonious feel.