Why Birds in Hats?
How Birds in Hats?
Where Birds in Hats?
Why Birds in Hats? How Birds in Hats? Where Birds in Hats?
Why? Why not.
Birds in Hats began in a basement in New Cross, SE London in 2009, probably when I should have been working on my creative writing degree. One throwaway illustration of an owl wearing a baseball cap turned into a blog, which turned into a market stall in Brixton, which turned into a regular spot in Brick Lane… which turned into a full time job and a studio.
After several years surviving in London as a professional birds-in-hats-artist, I decided to try running things on the road. I packed a suitcase, with a vague plan to start in Taiwan and go from there. I hadn’t been there before, but I’d heard the nature was great (eg: good birds.)
Though I’ve travelled a bunch since then, Taiwan stole my heart and it’s here, on the side of a mountain in Taipei, that I find myself today. You’ll find a lot of Taiwanese birds, endemic nature, and generally Taiwan’s sub-tropical beauty influencing my art - but also plenty of ducks and pigeons in flat caps. I am after all, still British.
Over the years my birds have been found on a range of products, (officially and unofficially) on all sorts of attire, on a giant egg in New York, stocked in museums and shops around the world and on any walls I can convince people to let me paint.
I’m very serious about being silly.
I love cycling and learning songs in Mandarin for uncomfortably passionate KTV performances.
Though I LOVE painting birds in hats, I do also paint and design other things, write fiction, create brands, work in tech and generally keep myself busy. I am working on a portfolio site that might explain that better. (Don’t hold your breath though, I have been for 7 years.)
