A fun side-project in 2017/18 was creating a series of literary portraits - initially to accompany writer and performer Terry Victor's production Well Thumbed at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival, though subsequently expanded and exhibited as A Thousand Words at Waterstones, Bloomsbury in 2019. Made from a range of historical sources, the series now totals thirty-nine pictures, including novelists, poets, essayists, and playwrights. Here is a selection.
- Christina Rossetti (Well Thumbed 37) , 2018
- E.M. Forster (Well Thumbed 25), 2018
- George Orwell (Well Thumbed 31), 2018
- Kurt Vonnegut (Well Thumbed 27), 2018
- Mary Wollstonecraft (Well Thumbed 23), 2018
- Millicent Fawcett (Well Thumbed 38), 2018
- Nancy Mitford (Well Thumbed 29), 2018
- Charlotte Brontë (Well Thumbed 3), 2017
- D.H. Lawrence (Well Thumbed 11), 2017
- Ezekiel (with apologies to Michelangelo) (Well Thumbed 5), 2017
- Gwerful Mechain (Well Thumbed 9), 2017
- Leo Tolstoy (Well Thumbed 6), 2017
- Mark Twain (Well Thumbed 10), 2017
- Oscar Wilde (Well Thumbed 8), 2017