I've just launched a new portfolio website, and have integrated blog posts into it, so from now on you can find my blog at www.besshardi...

I've just started illustrating a horoscope for my portfolio, using a sort of new collagey style. First up, Leo:

Yep, it's that time of year again, Affordable Art Fair time, and I'm not even going to go into how soon it seems to have come round...

I seem to have a burgeoning tradition of illustrating actresses from Oscars night. Today I got straight on the case, and here's this yea...

Now that I'm a full time freelancer, I've been trying to make a quick image every morning, using different materials, and drawing wh...

(Excuse the pun)! I wasvintending to draw some perfume bottles to add to my portfolio today, but hadn't chosen which ones, then the Emer...

I know I say this every time... but I can't believe another Affordable Art Fair has been and gone, six months always flies by so fast! ...

I've been working on these speculative card designs and am quite pleased with them... a bit of texture, a bit scrawlier than usual... ...

Last week I had a papercut commission from a lovely lady I met earlier in the year on my yoga holiday on Silver Island . This is one of her ...

My latest papercut commission was this giraffe and elephant for a little baby boy (his heritage is cheekily explained in the speech bubbles...

I was at the late view of the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea last night, and had been planning just to wander around and enjoy it without...

My latest papercut - this one with the lyrics from Etta James' At Last - was for a first wedding anniversary. Apparently the jury's ...

Months ago I bought a bargain 50x70cm Habitat frame from the local tip for the princely sum of £4. Of course I was thrilled with it, but eve...

I had a couple of commissions just before Christmas for papercuts - one for a 30th birthday, one for a 1st birthday... apparently girls of a...

A couple of years ago a friend bought one of my bears as a present for her boyfriend. They call him 'beeb' (after my old label), and...