Hi! It's that time of year again, where I list my must-listens for the year of 2020 via Release Magazine. It was a weird year for sure, but in terms of music, there were some real highlights - I list my favourite albums, tracks, and newcomer of the year, and with retweets of my list from none other than Squarepusher and Public Enemy, I think you can guess at least a couple of the entries in there! Head over to my list here (https://www.releasemagazine.net/best-of-2020-mike-wh

Hi! Although I am still in the middle of my Japan month work, my latest image is taking time to complete - in fact it has been 2 weeks on the same image - probably the longest time I have spent on one single image ever! So instead, here's an image I made at the very beginning of this year - a remake of the image I made last year as a kind of self-portrait - entitled simply "Self Portrait 2021". Back with some more Japanese influenced work next week, in time for the end of the

Hi! Hope you're all well - I've been further exploring design this week, and used a fusion of Japanese style, graffiti and my own ideas to create a skateboard deck. The idea was inspired by a project I saw in Creative Arts projects magazine, in which an artist made their own deck. Using the starting point of "Mykadelica", I used some colour, some geometry, and a selective selection of adding and deleting, finally ending up with this image. Hope you like it! More action over o

Hi! Hope the New Year is treating you well so far. For the start of 2021, I have decided to have a try at my own take on the Japanese art I was influenced by when living and working there. You can see it appear on my website over January (www.mykadelica.com) Japan is a land of contrast, from the ancient to the modern, and this applied to its art too. From Japanese caligraphy to modern day graffiti - the amazing art of the Ukiyo to anime. Though I don't want to just reproduce

Hi! It's great to see 2020 has finally shuffled off - let's hope 2021 starts to feel a little bit more - normal.... I hope you are all doing well during the early days of this year; I will tell you what I plan to do for the first few months of this year in due course, for now, have a look at the teaser image on my home page, and stay posted in the coming weeks, for new work and projects... Till next time! MIKE