Art & Mixed Media

Ink, charcoal, paper, thread. I don't plan these — I just start and see where it goes.

Caboodle — online platform and community for intersectional queering, Cape Town

Caboodle

Platform & Community Design — Cape Town, Covid-era

RICHPOOR

Motion & Mixed Media — Caboodle Project
Ink line drawing of Thapelo M — studio portrait, Cape Town 2020

Thapelo M

Ink Line Drawing — Cape Town Studio, 2020
Surreal photo-collage with circular forms

Double Exposure

Photo-Collage
Paper cutout composition — organic forms on black

Cut Forms

Paper on Board
Stitched portrait — mixed media on fabric

Stitched Portrait

Mixed Media on Fabric
Abstract gestural study — black charcoal and ink on Fabriano paper

Gestural Study

Charcoal & Ink on Fabriano
Ink portrait study — expressive line work

The Atlas Project
Figures and Places

This series is about people and the spaces they move through — how a room shapes you, how a city holds memory, how a body changes the meaning of a place just by being in it. The drawings try to get at that relationship. It's never neutral. There's always power, care, history woven into it.

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Creative Direction

Art direction and styling for GQ, Kinfolk, Glamour, KLuK CGDT and others. Each shoot is its own world.

GQ South Africa fashion editorial — creative direction by Chad John Payne

GQ South Africa

Creative Direction & Styling
Kinfolk and Gilt Magazine covers — art direction by Chad John Payne

Kinfolk / Gilt Magazine

Art Direction
KLuK CGDT fashion campaign — creative direction by Chad John Payne

KLuK CGDT

Campaign Creative Direction
Sand dunes fashion campaign — styling and creative direction

Desert Editorial

Executive Creative & Styling
Industrial black and white fashion editorial

Industrial

Creative Direction & Styling
Blue-themed art fashion editorial diptych

Blue Study

Art Direction & Styling

Line Drawings

Faces and characters. Ink on paper, one line at a time.

Untitled 1 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 1 of 12, 2021
Untitled 2 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 2 of 12, 2021
Untitled 3 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 3 of 12, 2021
Untitled 4 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 4 of 12, 2021
Untitled 5 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 5 of 12, 2021
Untitled 6 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 6 of 12, 2021
Untitled 7 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 7 of 12, 2021
Untitled 8 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 8 of 12, 2021
Untitled 9 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 9 of 12, 2021
Untitled 10 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 10 of 12, 2021
Untitled 11 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 11 of 12, 2021
Untitled 12 of 12 — ink line drawing, 2021 Untitled 12 of 12, 2021