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CONTACT Please contact Moose or Karen Allain World of Moose Marley House Hulham Road Exmouth Devon EX8 5DZ UK Email info@worldofmoose.com Tel +44 (0)1395 270 042		ABOUT ME I live and work as an artist in Devon, England. For many years I worked in London as an architect specialising in urban regeneration and contributed to the UK´s successful Olympic bid. I moved to the coast in 2006 to concentrate on my art and to bring up my young family by the sea. “Making my drawings is about losing myself in an imaginary world. I use spatters of colour as seeds or I start from the bottom and work upwards, seeing where my pen takes me.” With a background in retail my wife Karen handles the business side of things. ABOUT MY WORK As an artist I am often asked what my work is like. I always find it hard to answer this question, mainly because I work in a variety of styles and in a variety of media. My drawings often start with ink splashes or marks on the paper, not completely random as I choose colour, and intensity of distribution, but chance plays a large part. Once the ink or paint has dried I come back to them – sometimes months later – and look for shapes, perhaps in the way that people look for recognisable forms in clouds. I like drawing lots of small things. I take a piece of paper about 10cm square and splash some ink on it. These marks become tiny figures.  I fill a piece of paper with them and then say to myself “What are all these characters up to?”. I think writing a caption transforms the drawing from a pleasant doodle into something else. It contextualises the drawing in a way that surprises and delights. The joy for me is that the technique allows me to discover stories. Another technique which has a similar outcome is just to start at the bottom and work up the page. It seems simple but it is actually very liberating. I know that I don't have to worry about what the drawing will be. This is how I did my 'Little Men' series. I would have an idea for a scenario, such as a middle eastern flavoured setting, or a great construction project. I pencilled in some regular grid lines to keep the perspective consistent, and then just started drawing, seeing what happens. With some of these I did a bit of visual research, wanting to include particular buildings, but on the whole there was no underlying plan, just a technique that I knew would take me from A-Z. This 'start at the bottom' and work up approach is one that I have also adopted with my drawings of cityscapes. Again these are unplanned, I have no idea what's going to appear on the page. It really feels akin to that experience of looking at a map then seeing the reality unfold. It has the same thrill of walking the streets of an unfamiliar city, never knowing what you are going to find round the next corner. I have recently begun to combine these methodologies to make larger canvases and ink drawings. They feel like the different strands coming together: partly reintroducing paint into my work, but also using the 'guided' randomness to provide a framework in which I create a part of a city and then people it with tiny little stories, many of them mysterious and open to the interpretation of the viewer. I can't help seeing these canvases and drawings as part of a conurbation of some sort, I'm gradually exploring the various neighbourhoods. [Back to top] GICLEE PRINTS A giclée is the term for a high quality fine art digital print.  Ours are printed by our specialist  printer who is approved by the Fine Art Trade Guild.  He uses fade-resistant, archival inks and prints on 255gsm 100% Cotton, acid free archival paper.  This process ensures that, if kept out of the sun, your prints will remain true for many, many years. [Back to top] DELIVERY Your order will usually be dispatched within 3 working days of payment. Contact us if you need it more urgently and we'll see what we can do. Our standard UK delivery charge is included in the selling price of your item, unless otherwise stated on the page.  We are happy to dispatch to anywhere in the world, please contact us with a location and we can let you know how much it will cost.   [Back to top] PAYMENT You can pay through PayPal using the 'Add to Cart' button. All major debit and credit cards are accepted and you don’t need to have a PayPal account to make the payment. You can call us on 01395 270042 with your card details, if you prefer. If you want to pay by cheque, please make it payable to World of Moose and send it to Marley House, Hulham Road, Exmouth, Devon EX8 5DZ. If you contact us to tell us its coming we can get it ready come out to you as soon as we receive it. If you would like to buy one of the originals, contact us and we can tell you whether it is still available and give you any other information you may need. [Back to top] RETURNS POLICY Please let us know about any shortages, faults or damages within 48 hours of delivery and we will rectify the problem. Under the Consumer Protection Distance Selling Act you are entitled to a full refund, provided the item is returned within 7 days of receiving the goods in perfect condition with its original packaging.  Please email us if you are going to do this. Please retain your proof of posting certificate, as we cannot be held responsible for anything that gets lost or damaged in transit. Delivery charges and returned postage will only be refunded if an item is faulty. [Back to top] COMMISSIONS Moose is happy to discuss any commissions or other projects, just contact us with your ideas. What have you got to lose? [Back to top] COPYRIGHT The copyright of this site and the products within it are retained by the artist. Images, logos, descriptions or text from our site must not be reproduced without written permission. [Back to top]		GALLERIES The Delicate Mayhem Gallery - 3 Russell Street, Covent Garden, London Otterton Mill - near Budleigh Salterton, East Devon Harris Interiors - Poole, Dorset Hicks Gallery - Wimbledon, London The Savill Garden Gallery - Windsor Great Park, Berkshire The Cider Press Centre - Dartington near Totnes, Devon Frivoli Gallery - Chiswick, London INC - Exmouth, Devon Signed & Numbered - Prahran, Melbourne, Australia Cloud Gallery (no website yet) 47 Lower Bridge Street, Chester CH11RS 01244 324638