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JakPat

I make absurdist portraits and landscapes with colour and silliness.

27/07/2024

I'm aware that for some months now my Instagram hasn't been posting automatically to this page. It started posting to my personal Facebook for a bit but that wasn't what I wanted. I can't for the life of me figure out how to set it up to do post to this page. Turns out that for a digital artist I'm also a massive technophobe. While I figure it out I'm going to no-context dump a bunch of my work from the last few months on you in a few posts over the coming days.

24/02/2024

My fourth piece for 's "Girl Crush Friday" gigs over in far flung Alaska. I've never been to Alaska, or even crossed the Atlantic but I'm sure this is the only place you need to be on a Friday night in Anchorage. This time they'll have a tattooist - go on, I dare you!

16/02/2024

Next up in my series of neurodivergent representations in film and TV is the not so honourable Mark Corrigan, played brilliantly by David Mitchell. Certainly not the most likeable character in the world, in fact at times he's a bit evil. Mark is a socially inept, anxious oddball whose need to be seen as normal makes him aspire to climb the middle management pole in the beigest way possible. Finding it difficult to make people like him, he plots and schemes his way into their affections from hacking Sophie's emails in series 1 to being complicit in the kidnapping a love rival in series 9.

(Yes, I know I want this series to celebrate neurodivergence and Mark is a nasty individual - but being neurodivergent doesn't make us saints. We're just as likely to be evil as "normaloes". And Mark is an excellent comic character precisely because of how his relateable social anxiety plays out in an unfiltered way.)

15/02/2024

Floki The Boat Builder

I wanted to do a series based on my favourite portrayals of neurodivergent characters in film and TV. This is Floki, loosely based on a real historial figure of the same name beautifully portrayed by Gustaf Skarsgaard in the TV series Vikings.

Floki has an incredible talent for reading pieces of wood, knowing just by looking at a tree exactly which parts will form which parts of a boat and how it will behave. Yet he struggles with reading social situations, finds it difficult to adapt to the new world he and Ragnar Lothbrok open up with their raids in England and Frankia and the threat posed by Christianity to their pagan way of life. He stims when stressed and laughs at often inappropriate moments.

13/02/2024

This is my beautiful son Gully. Gully is profoundly autistic and non-verbal. Part of his SEN education includes equine therapy. He absolutely loves it. His mum sent me the reference photo I used for this piece a couple of months back and it melted my heart to see him do something like this.

08/02/2024

My band release our next single "Unstitched" tomorrow. Available on all your streamers and Bandcamp (checkout their )

07/02/2024

The genocide in Gaza continues in broad daylight. 26,000 innocent Palestinians murdered, half of them children. Almost the entire population displaced, 70% of the housing destroyed, hospitals bombed, mosques, churches, schools, universities obliterated, supplies of food, water, medicine, electricity cut off causing rampant famine and disease, and a fascist regime that openly calls for the annihilation of "human animals". And yet our Tory government and Labour opposition here in the UK refuse to call for a ceasefire, refuse to halt the sale of arms to Isr**l, cut financial aid to the UNRWA on the basis of spurious allegations by the mass murdering regime.

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02/02/2024

Designed a tee for Narwhals. These'll be coming soon.

25/01/2024

Happy Birthday

20/01/2024

A poster and a couple of record sleeves I've done for my band .

19/01/2024

I knew Jo as a teenager, through Creative Forces drama club in Old Trafford. Though our paths rarely crossed as adults, we shared mutual friends and bandmates. He was a lovely lad; funny, articulate and the right amount of weird. He was an insanely talented songwriter and I continued to be a fan of his work for many years. Really saddened to learn of his death this week aged just 36.

04/01/2024

This Christmas was a little bit different for my family. Rather than the usual wintery festive get together at my mum and dad's in Todmorden, we found ourselves in sunny Thailand with my brother (who lives in Singapore) and my Australian cousins who came up from Perth. I didn't really want to leave.

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