Earlier paintings, drawings, prints and design projects are here.

Guide to the Particles

Extracts from a guide to the basic building blocks that make up the Universe; based upon new conventions designed as the basis for a student pocket book. 2015 - 2016.

Sun Paintings

All life on Earth owes itself to the Sun, our nearest star. This series of paintings shares some of the things we know. 2013 - 2014.

Rockets

Banners celebrating discovery. 2014.

SKETCHBOOK

Sketches made around the Physics Department of Imperial College in 2011 - 2012.

Quantum Information Team Breakfast Meet 2

A talk by David Jennings

Lithium Cooling Experiment

Mike Tarbutt's laboratory.

This is the first drawing in a series.

Lithium atoms are evaporated on the right hand side using an oven to create a beam travelling at around 1000 m/s (nearly three times the speed of sound in vacuum) and bought in the space of a table-top to an approximate standstill by pelting them with finely tuned photons of light each of just the right colour (energy) to be absorbed by the atoms when accounting for the doppler effect. As the atoms slow, the magnitude of this effect changes, so solenoids are used along the atoms' line of travel to adjust the quantum energy levels, so they continue to absorb the light photons.

The marvellous result is a tiny cloud of lithium atoms at a temperature that is colder than space in the left hand chamber - one billion atoms in a tiny red bean - visible to the naked eye. The next stage of this experiment will be to attempt to cool molecules using this little cloud.

Electron EDM Laboratory - 3

In a subterranean lab and over a period of ten years or so, a small team of researchers have built the best machine in the world dedicated to measuring the shape of the electron which is one of our infinitesimally small indivisible constituents of matter. This elegant and economical experiment, described in Nature as "a low energy window on the high energy soul of the cosmos", may produce findings that have far reaching implications for our understanding of the universe.

This study is one of a series, the result of several hours spent sitting with the experiment.

Electron EDM Laboratory - 2

This study is one of a series, the result of several hours spent sitting with the experiment.

Colourful laboratory

Sitting in the laboratory where they are measuring the shape of the electron, when I made this drawing, in particular, I was struck most by the spectacular splashes of colour given by the laser light, computer screens and digital displays.

Anne and Valentina - Two

Two physicists working on the optics table which is part of a molecule cooling experiment that could be part of the next generation of the experiment to measure the shape of the electron.

Anne and Valentina - Three

Two physicists glimpsed working on the optics table which is part of a molecule cooling experiment that could be part of the next generation of the experiment to measure the shape of the electron.

Anne and Valentina - One

Two physicists glimpsed working on the optics table which is part of a molecule cooling experiment that could be part of the next generation of the experiment to measure the shape of the electron.

Photonics Laboratory

Peter Torok's photonics laboratory which is all about looking at things.

Pencil and coloured pencil, 36 x 54 cm

Red table

Bookshelves

Office door

Blue Platform Shoe

Attosecond Laboratory 1

In this laboratory the team work to create some of the shortest and most powerful light pulses in the world. The pulses are of the order of several millionths of billionths of a sceond and can carry the power of 180 power stations. The aim is to use these light pulses to find out about the dynamics of some of our smallest and very fast moving particles, such as electrons.

Pencil and coloured pencil, 36 x 54 cm

Attosecond Laboratory 2

Pencil and coloured pencil, 36 x 54 cm

Laboratory in the Forest

Coloured pencil study on paper. 30 x 45 cm.

The dream of a place to work, surrounded by trees, without traffic vibrations, magnetic fields and disturbance.

String Theory Seminar

"Upside down, boy you turn me: a surprise from experiments on a single qubit."

Sean Barrett leads a breakfast meeting with the Quantum Information Group - presenting a theoretical paper he co-wrote some years ago and news of some recent experimental results. 13th March 2012.

MAGPIE Laboratory

In a basement lab, the Magpie team explore the dynamics of plasma and star formation.

Mathematics - Functions 1

Andrew Parry, lecturing to new students

All physical theories

Charcoal on paper, 2m x 1m.

Made with the help of physicist, David Jennings. Our email conversation is here.

Mathematics - Functions 2

Andrew Parry

Quantum Field Theory

Jerome Gauntlett

Quantum Field Theory 2

Jerome Gauntlett

Quantum Field Theory 3

Jerome Gauntlett

Statistics of Measurement

Roberto Trotta

Unification - The Standard Model

Kellogg Stelle

Astrophysics

Subu Mohanty

Astrophysics 2

Subu Mohanty

Quantum Information

Terry Rudolph on teleportation

Electromagnetism

Peter Torok, students, equations and a Van de Graff generator.

Team meeting

Conducting polymers - team meeting with Jenny Nelson

Plasma

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Jonathan Halliwell

Students

Man in the machine

Made in the laboratory of Danny Segal and team when they have the remarkable situation of a single cooled atom in a chamber, that when struck just right with a well tuned laser emits light barely visible to the naked eye. A marvel of nature.

Dynamic systems and chaos

Frank Berkshire

Dynamic systems and chaos 2

Frank Berkshire

Astrophysics 1

Astrophysics 2

Plasma Physics

Robert Kingham

Cosmology - 'do we live at a special time?'

Andrew Jaffe

Space Physics

Particle physics

Brains thinking about brains

Two delegates: ‘How the Brain Works’ - insights from complexity and self organisation’ at Imperial College on 21^st September 2011.

Meeting notes

Quantum Information Team Breakfast Meet 1

Quantum Information Team Breakfast Meet 3

Quantum Information Team Breakfast Meet 4

Experiment - single atom emitting light

Nuclear physics

Plasma Physics

Robert Kingham

Students

Cosmology

Andrew Jaffe

Astrophysics 3

Subu Mohanty

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 2

Jonathan Halliwell

Quantum Mechanics - first years

Mathematics 1

Steve Schwartz

Mathematics 2

Steve Schwartz

Mathematics 3

Steve Schwartz

Electric Dipole Moment Team meeting - 1

Studies made on 7th June 2011 - the week when the team published its findings on the shape of the electron. In these five drawings I aimed to capture the forms and narrative of the meeting.

The physicists are Jony Hudson, Dhiren Kara, Joe Smallman, Ben Sauer, Mike Tarbutt and Ed Hinds

Studies made on 7th June 2011 - the week when the team published its findings on the shape of the electron.