I guess that’s the years of drawing cheerful illustrations for children that have done it: I have now an overwhelming urge to use indian ink. And a palette of blacks and greys. And after a day full of nice, colourful pictures, it’s really liberating and frankly, a lot more fun to get dirty with pens, brushes and a lot of black ink… After I put some of these on Instagram, one comment I got was: I wouldn't like my children to have such images in their heads after reading a book. Right-o.