Trevor Hancock - Digital Artist

26/12/2025

Hi everyone! Best wishes of the season to you - as Christmas Day itself has already gone by, and today is what the UK calls Boxing Day. I created a "Christmas Card" which I posted to my personal Facebook profile/page, you can see this at https://www.facebook.com/trevor.hancock.56/
But on this, my art-only page, I decided this year to do something different and more whimsical. This is not an original idea, but is inspired by a cartoon that a university friend sent me at the start of this year. I originally created this 3D toon children's nativity scene for one of my saleable Christmas cards. But in this version I have made a few 3D adjustments and additions, plus a photo-based character that I composited into the scene using Photoshop. I hope you enjoy it! In case anyone is confused by this, a clue is that the Wise Men's gifts to the infant Jesus were Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. And Boris Karloff definitely did not play a monster created by a guy named Frankincense... (For church people, I have no intention to be irreverent with this version of a nativity scene rehearsal, and as I said, you can find my "religious" scene for this year on my other page.)

15/08/2025

Hi Friends, Followers and visitors! Here is an advert for my Swindon Open Studios (SOS) exhibition this year at the STEAM museum in Swindon, including both my digital art and the Fine Art of the late John Webb, featuring Swindon's Railway Workshops in the 1960s.

In case you don't see the image, it's on 20th September (10am-5pm) and 21st September (11am to 4pm) in the Hawksworth Hall, go in the STEAM main door and turn right - entry to this hall is free. Lift or stairs to 1st floor café, and toilet available. Parking is at the Designer Outlet North Car Park, or at STEAM if you have a blue badge. Or you could walk from the town centre via the tunnel, near Emlyn Square.

I will be focusing on Steampunk art, I guess in keeping with the venue! Plus sci-fi and fantasy, humour and faith-based artworks. Art prints and lots of greetings cards available! I am also hoping to display a few of John Webb's fine ceramics of birds with flowers etc., I just need to find the best way of displaying these very delicate items in public.

16/06/2025

Hi all digital art-lovers! The run-up has begun for Swindon Open Studios 2025. As mentioned in my previous post, this September I will be exhibiting in a hall at Swindon's STEAM museum.

But this week and next, the amazing Swindon Arts Fringe (SWAF 2025) is on - and this includes an exhibition named I❤️SOS, with artworks which remember Swindon Open Studios over the years, plus some to be included later this year. So here is the leaflet for this.

The venue for I❤️SOS is 11 The Carriage Works, London Street SN1 5DG, every day from today until 29th June, 11am to 5.30pm. For people who visited my exhibition last year, this is NOT the huge Carriage Works space in a tunnel behind Create Studios. Instead, the entrance to this part of the Carriage Works is actually in London Street, near the junction with Emlyn Square. Car parks are available in Sheppard Street and Bristol Street. BEWARE - you will be fined if you drive through the bus-only part of Bristol Street!

This venue is also hosting other SWAF exhibitions in the same room - A Mycelium Story (the beauty of fungi), Swindon Animation (have-a-go moving art), and the wonderfully innovative Broken Britannia, plus other things. Enjoy!

Some of the SOS artists are helping to curate I❤️SOS. I will be there on the Tuesday afternoons if you want to talk to me.

20/04/2025

Another seasonal artwork! But despite these last 2 posts, I don't just do "religious" art - as you can see from the previous photo of my last exhibition - there is a lot of sci-fi and fantasy and Steampunk, plus humour and other good things.

In this digital artwork - which by the way, has no AI in it at all! - we see Pete and John, two friends of Jesus. They are visiting his tomb on what became the first Easter Sunday morning. They look mightily puzzled, and they have a problem which is summed up by the song title "I ain't got no body". (Please forgive the extra space!)

Yes, the body is missing - which happens in some detective stories. But they will find later that day that, again as in a song title, "You can't keep a good man down"!

If you want to read the rest of the story, and see a bit more news, you can follow this link to today's post on my personal Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/trevor.hancock.56/posts/pfbid0kVKUaaDk1By6FcNyzKXuuio6KyNncnynsD6wSYG3uPXhtwiH8qt4zy9sfAMq96eJl

I almost forgot - STOP PRESS - I have booked up to exhibit my art as part of Swindon Open Studios 2025. More news later, but for now, this will be on September 20th and 21st, at Swindon's STEAM museum. (This year I will not be exhibiting on the 2nd weekend, but hope to visit other SOS artists' exhibitions on September 27th and 28th.)

And finally - HAPPY EASTER everyone!

25/12/2024

Time for a seasonal Christmas greeting in art! I've kept this very basic, and here are some words to go with the picture I created...

Here's Mary holding her baby Jesus.
Where’s Joseph? I expect he’s out shopping.
The shepherds? They’ve come and gone.
Angels? Certainly not there visibly.
Wise Men? They’re a few months away.
Donkey? He’s probably reclaimed the hay in the manger!
Never mind the Very Important Baby thing. That can wait ‘til later.
No, just some Mum and Baby time for now.

I wish you all a good Christmas and a wonderful 2025!

30/09/2024

Here's a great picture by DC photo, of my display at the Carriage Works for Swindon Open Studios 2024, with hosts Podpadstudios.

19/09/2024

Hi everyone! As I haven't yet shown you any of my own art here this year, I will remedy this now. This is a piece which I have updated and improved for Swindon Open Studios, which begins just this next weekend (see my other posts).

It's entitled "Wind Chimes - the Bones of Robots". I based it on the following saying, which I found on a Facebook post some time back:

"Wind chimes are made from the metallic bones of robots that tried to overthrow us. Hang them outside your house as a warning to the others."

Our robot, innocently calling on this house, looks terrified!

The reason why I am featuring this piece is that Podpadstudios, the organisers of the venue for my exhibition, will be showing many of their own robot creations! So it seemed fitting, and a bit tongue-in-cheek, to use this artwork plus words!

At my SOS exhibition, I will have copies of this picture (plus a little card with the words) available, and also greetings cards with the picture and words.

NOTE: I am always concerned not to infringe anyone's intellectual property rights, so I have tried hard to find out who penned the saying, without success. It has gone a bit viral in some places, with social media posts and laminated notices etc. being produced with variations of these words, by various different people, and with no copyright notices. I've messaged the earliest such writer I know, with no response so far. I have assumed that it's OK to use in this way - and of course the picture is my own creation.

13/09/2024

In addition to my own digital art, I will also be organising a display of the art of the late John Webb, as part of the Podpadstudios exhibition in the Carriage Works for Swindon Open Studios 2024 (please see https://www.swindonopenstudios.org/artist/john-webb).

I often exhibited and sold work alongside John, and designed greetings cards for him, and he was very gracious in leaving me his art (and its copyright).

The post here mentions a story in the Swindon Advertiser. I had sent information and this picture by John to Aled Thomas of the Adver, and am very grateful for the publication of this story.

ARTIST'S GWR WORK RETURNS HOME TO SWINDON CARRIAGE WORKS

Did you read the article in the Swindon Advertiser about the artwork by the late John Webb? John's work is being displayed at The Carriageworks, during the Swindon Open Studios event over the last two weekends of September.
You can read the story here: https://bit.ly/4d2vr59

Trevor Hancock - Digital Artist

02/09/2024

Hi everyone, in less than 3 weeks' time I will be taking part in Swindon Open Studios 2024!
[UPDATE - The first weekend is now past, and there is just next weekend to go, on 28-29 September - do come and enjoy Podpadstudios' mechanical wonders at the Carriage Works!]

In a new venue this time, the Carriage Works in London Street - entrance via Create Studios. This exhibition venue is organised by Podpadstudios, who will be showing off their wonderful mechanical creations - a full size Batmobile for example!

More details here: https://www.podpadstudios.com/trevor-hancock - while you are there, do take a look around their website!

25/12/2023

Hi everyone! I have been absent from my art page for too long. This time, I'd like to wish everyone a great Christmas season, or holiday season if you'd prefer to call it that.

The picture that I have chosen to post today is in fact one which I created some while back, but used just this year for two similar physical Christmas cards, one for my church, and one for use by myself and my wife Alison.

The subject is Jesus as a toddler, with the gifts from the Wise Men or Magi, as referred to in chapter 2 of Matthew's gospel in the Bible. That is, gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh. These Magi, presumably night sky experts, had seen a special star (or astronomical phenomenon), and had travelled from the east to find the new king which they believed this foretold. (This was quite possibly based on information from Hebrew scrolls brought to Babylon by Jewish captives many years before,)

You can see the star framed in the window. Also, something unintentional but relevant to Jesus' future, the window frame has a cross-piece which brings to mind a cross.

So, why a toddler, not a baby? The text of the later part of this chapter implies that Jesus may have been around a year old when the travellers arrived. So after Joseph and Mary came to Bethlehem for the Roman census, and the child Jesus was born, I've assumed that Joseph set up a carpentry business in Bethlehem, hence the workbench and tools.

Then after the very long journey of the Magi, which was sparked off by the the star's appearance at the time of Jesus' birth, and after their detour to Herod's palace in Jerusalem, they arrived at what the text calls "the house" (rather than a stable). Later events brought about the family's voluntary exile in Egypt and their subsequent return to Nazareth.

So you can see that a little research has borne fruit when choosing the picture's content!

For my news from 2023, you are very welcome to visit my main page https://www.facebook.com/trevor.hancock.56

Have a wonderful 2024!

P.S. My Swindon Open Studios exhibition is surprisingly still available, if you haven't managed to get there yet!

10/10/2023

EDIT: Hi everyone! As of early November, I haven't yet fixed a date for dismantling the exhibition, so please contact me if you would like to take a look. My Christmas cards (and most other cards) are half price! 🎅🤶☃️ As before, visits are by arrangement only (please don't just turn up!).

For the location and contact details, please see my Swindon Open Studios webpage, and just ignore the dates and times.

Here is my SOS webpage link - if you can see it: https://www.swindonopenstudios.org/trevor-hancock
If you don't see a link, here is the webpage in text format: "www dot swindonopenstudios dot org forwardslash trevor-hancock". (Sorry for this. If you have Malwarebytes Browser Guard, try disabling that - this seemed to work on my PC.)

I'm also keeping in place, in the same house, my exhibition of the late John Webb's fine art and ceramics. There has been some interest in his wonderful porcelain bird sculptures, and also his vases and bowls, many of which have bird illustrations. There are both large and small prints available, and lots of greetings cards with both my and John's different styles of art. Everything is at considerably reduced prices - or just come to enjoy the artworks, no obligation to buy anything!

Best times for parking are weekdays in the daytime. In case of difficulties, there is a small car park off Whitehouse Road for users of the local park behind the house, with tennis courts and a modern café. I think it would be acceptable if you park there and have a snack or drink in the café, then walk through to Ipswich Street to visit the exhibition.

The brand-new digital artwork today features an Enaeriophyte. This is a fictional flying plant, which inhabits a semi-desert area on an alien world, where the soil alternates between extreme dryness and being watered by unpredictable springs. The Enaeriophyte moves from place to place in flight, to find a new source of moisture and sustenance. It's sensitive to water vapour rising from the short-term irrigated areas. This surprising example of adaptive botany is composed of three life-forms in a symbiotic relationship, each of which provides the foliage, root system with reservoir, or "wings". This symbiosis is, for the inhabitants of that world, a compelling argument in favour of Intelligent Design! Oh, and yes, the flower centres glow brightly, to attract pollinating moths at night.

Do please post a comment or message me, to let me know what you think of my work, or with suggestions for future artworks. Again I would like to thank Swindon Open Studios for their continuing support to Swindon artists.

27/09/2023

Hi everyone! Swindon Open Studios 2023 has officially ended now. But just to remind you, I will keep my exhibition in place for at least 2 weeks, possibly longer, so please do contact me if you would like to visit it and see my latest Digital Art (my latest products are mostly not shown on this page!) and also the Fine Art and wonderful Ceramics of the late John Webb.

Contact details at the webpage below - please do NOT visit the house unless you have made an arrangement, it is not our home! When you ring, email, or PM-message me, I will arrange to open up the house to you and any friends you bring with you.
https://www.swindonopenstudios.org/trevor-hancock

(If you don't see a link just above here, my SOS webpage with contact details is at "www dot swindonopenstudios dot org forwardslash trevor-hancock". Sorry for that. If you have Malwarebytes Browser Guard, try disabling that - this seemed to make links visible on my PC.)

In my last two posts I promised you a view of my actual studio. Well, here it is! I did tell you that to visit my studio you would have to get into my computer! And here are two people who have decided to visit, and found it rather different from the usual Swindon Open Studios venue!

The fact is that most of my work goes on in the virtual space within the DAZ Studio software (no connection to soap powder...) on my Windows 10 PC. It is there that I do my static version of what a film director does. Steven Spielberg and James Cameron hire actors, they have a wardrobe department and hair stylists, they buy in props and vehicles etc., and arrange the scenery and the apparent weather, and of course have special effects experts. Not forgetting of course the lighting, which is crucial to any scene.

Well, I have my equivalents of all of these things and more, which I also buy in (or use the occasional freebie). In fact I have a vast library of such things. Then, like any film director, I creatively design my scene, the only difference being that my pictures don't move! I am in fact a CGI artist and compositor, which incidentally are two of the roles you will see in most movie credits lists these days.

I will be keeping this art-only page going, so please continue to Follow it, or you can Like it if not already, and you will see the occasional nice picture, and maybe some more explanations of what my work involves, and news of future events such as exhibitions. Best wishes for now to you all!