Matt Cassity

Matt Cass is one of my best friends in the whole world, we use to live together in Kansas.....he looked after me in my time in the states and when I've been to see him in New York. He's an amazing artist, designer and one cool guy. He also looks after anything I need doing on tapedcopies. I sent him a shed load t-shirts before and he's just sent me this to provide evidence that he's rocking it......

Mostly this week I have been......

After getting back from Basel and having a chest infection, I've been drawing and working at the studio.



I'm working on this for Peter Beste at the moment, I still need to ink it and finish it off next week.




On the way to work this monring I was skating down the street and passed a Petrol truck with this painted on the back....I didn't see, but I think kris kristofferson was driving it.



I've also been working on this painting as well, I already drew a smaller drawing of it and I've now painted a bone / skin colour in the back ground and now I'm working on drawing the detail in.

Alexander Benedict

So this dude emailed me some of his drawings.... he hasn't got a site or anything.... but I love his work.

The Artists Guide

The issue of The Artists Guide is out really soon, I have a drawing in there ....along with Matt Cassity, Marcus Oakley and many others. The theme this time is fancy dress and there's even a limited edition t-shirt...check it out.

BASEL!!! Euro skateboard / idiot championships

From last Thursday till this Monday me and Lovenskate Stu were in Switzerland, Basel infact, thanks to Lars and Bert Ticket at Carhartt Skateboarding. We got to see all the amazing people we met at Hellfest who ride for or are friends with the Carhartt guys again. Made some new buddies, skated, slammed, laughed more than you can humanily laugh and drank enough beer to kill a bear.



Above Lars ... whos rules and below, Bert Ticket and Stu, being Ham Croissants....thanks for having us guys... it was sick!





well ...exactly....



Wainer's was there for the west cuntry, they let him off his asbo for the weekend....obviously drinking lager tops and taking his part in the whole weekend really seriously... and trying to mugg small kids on the street course for their fod vouchers.




Leggin's was there.... this kids a crazy Dutch bastard...you'll see more of this kid ....he's a mess... drunkest kid ever but rules.




It was rad to see my brothers in metal... the Yama guys were drinking it all weekend...Feret dropped in on this by the station.

There's gonna be a tweaker article soon with more photo's ....

Satanic Gas Mask Prints

Stu made me 2 of these as very special limited edition prints, I'm not gonna make more than these 2 and they are made with the ink from the t-shirt printing so they come out really shinny and super sharp.

I'm gonna put them for sale on my online store next Tuesday, when I get back from Switzerland. So if you want one fo the 2 go on there on tuesday and order them. They're only gonna be £20 and they're just over A3 in size.

Witch Stable

A load of shot down to Whitstable yesterday, Gorm drove the Gorminator tank....with plenty of Iron Maiden and Sabbath playing, to skate the park and see the Road Kill lads. Zombies been down from Staffordshire for the weekend so he came and ripped it a new one..... HI-5!!!


Gorm shot some sick pictures....




Dan gave me these new shirts and his new zine as well....stoked!!!

Buried....

I drew these last week to send of to a show in LA that some friends are putting on.. the theme is the word "Buried"

Online Store updated....

I just updated my online store, I have a couple of each of these prints for sale on there, and I had to take the bird's print down cos I sold out already.

Cheers to all who have bought stuff....

New Tweaker Zine Up ....

New Tweaker Zine is up dated and live....I've been really slack and not done anything for this update....but Gorm and Gonzilla have been working hard (having bbq's and drinking)

Peter Beste - is the best

Peter Beste sent me a copy of his massive new hard back, ouber posh book. Its wicked and the first time I've had a book signed to me by the author (me geeking out). I'm drawing one of Peter's photo's to be used as a t-shirt for him. I better get on with this other work so I can get onto to doing that. Thanks again Peter for that....

New Studio...New Sound System

I've spent this week getting my new studio sorted and becoming used to cycling to work and dealing with other people. But my buddy Bingo, who knows Venom really well, bought me this sweet new "Nostalgic" sound system to listen to Venom on...cos my mega one had to stay at home for metal listening purposes. This one can lay records, cd, tape and radio and looks dope! Bingo and his buddies Venom are gonna be making a Venom / Mischief skate store t-shirt really soon. So if you want one just email Bingo (info@mischiefskatestore.com) and ask him to save you one when they come in.





I've been framing stuff for an up coming group show....it was good to sort out what drawings I have and whats good and what needs to get dumped.

WEBSTORE NOW OPEN!!!

OK!!! So the master of all the web...The Gorminator ...helped me make this dope new webstore to sell my wears.... so go have a look and see what I've got, I'll put new stuff on all the time, but I can only list 5 different things (cos I'm cheap and didn't wanna pay for that).

I've got some zines, shirts and prints and all well cheap on there at the moment....

Its at french.bigcartel.com

Desolate Delights Prints for Sale.

I have of each of these "Desolate Delights" screen prints each number and signed. There are only 5 of each ....as they were the sample prints Derek sent me before the show.




If you wanna buy one they're £7 each for the 1 colour and £10 for the 2 colour , including P+P within the UK and out side the UK I'll have to work it out. Just drop me and email to if your interested and to check theres any left.

funeralfrench@yahoo.com

New studio

I've finally done something I never thought I'd be able to do and thats get a studio away from home to work from. Its my first day today and after a heavy week of work last week and then moving in over the weekend in the heat I feel pretty knackered...but still excited.

I'm sharing the studio with my friend Chrissie...she's wicked. Anyway back to drawing and making it look a little more lived in and homely.

+1 Shop Box

'Cos I did the cover I got to put my art work on gthe box the copies of +1 come to shops in as well. Shame they didn't tell me they were gonna put some ....... text that say's "I'm free" in hand drawn type. But well it looks ok.


cheers to Jamie the Pirate for sending me the picture.

+1 Magazine - Cooking

So if people hadn't had enough of looking at my work in +1 as part of my interview, they also used these anatomy drawings for a piece on cooking.

+1 Magazine - Interview and Cover

Jamie the Pirate got me a copy of +1 Mag from Slam City, it's my 1st Magazine cover and the interview is a little longer than I thought it was gonna. I apologise to anyone who read the whole thing and thought "god that was boring". But on the up side there's allot of pictures in it. Thanks to David Hopkins at +1 for doing that with me, cheers.

Here Gallery

Gavin Maitland presents:
New Contemporary Drawings
an exhibition of work by French, David Galletly, Simen Helsvig, Salome Oggenfuss and Anna Peaker

30th june - 31st july

Bristol’s Here Gallery is pleased to announce its 7th show of the year. We have invited curator Gavin Maitland to select work from five up & coming young artists who all employ a variety of drawing techniques and styles within their practice.

www.thingsfromhere.co.uk

www.myspace.com/heregallery

Document Magazine / +1 Magazine

This month I have an interview in Document Magazine, which is appears in the free "culture" suppliment called +1, I actually got to draw an image for the cover. If you see it have a look, its pretty ong interview, with loads of images of my work. I'm pretty pleased on the way it turned out, although I don't have a copy of it yet.