[Closed] Big Thanks Binners

Agree - had a Binners masterpiece depicting my beloved Calderdale on my wall for nearly 5 years and it'll be somewhere prominent when I move to York to remind me what an imbecile I've been by moving somewhere totally flat.

Seconded. I have 3 of his pieces in my home, including one that my daughters commissioned for my 50th Birthday. Make me smile everytime I look at them.

His work is first class.

Binners is indeed a top chap.
He once designed some beautiful business cards for me. He wouldn't except payment.

THANK YOU Binners.

While we are doing the Binner Love In (shudders) I have the legendary MNPR Montage in my kitchen complete with spelling mistakes, blasphemous images and the words "****s" and "Shit" on it that my 11 year old daughter never tires of reading out loud.

Got a couple of others too, but there's no bad language on them.

He wouldn’t except payment.

I hope he didn't rely on you for the proof-reading 😉

Just for balance, I think Binners is a chrome-domed-sausage-roll-scoffing-citizen-smith-wannabe tosspot.

But I still love him 🙂

Aaaaaaw shucks. Thanks everyone

And thank you all for being daft enough to keep commissioning work off me. Its been a lifeline for me and the family over lockdown.

In fact, this place, and the Monday Night Pub Ride in particular have basically changed the whole nature of my work over the last few years, and definitely this year

Its been quite a ride. The normal day job (freelance commercial/corporate graphic design) basically stopped completely in March and hasn't come back. Nor will it be any time soon, if ever. And there was no furlough for us freelancers who are apparently neither employees or self-employed. So it's been the print commissions that have kept us afloat, loads of which have come from the good people on here. And if it wasn't for MNPR I would never had started doing this in the first place.

So a huge thank you to everyone who's commissioned work. I've loved doing them all. You're a discerning lot and I've had some great places to illustrate. I certainly don't even think of it as 'work' as I enjoy it so much. I like to think that comes across in the end results

I'm presently drawing Langdale Pike for a fellow forum member which we're going to print on to a large alloy plate, which is my favourite thing to do at the moment and they look ace when they're up on the wall

So huge thanks, everyone. What started as a daft little thing I did to illustrate the MNPRs has now taken on a life of its own and become my full-time job. And I'm a lot happier bunny as a result. Funny how things work out, isn't it?

Binners Love In

You know the (in)famous cover of Hendrix's Electric Ladyland? Imagine if he'd instead called it Binners Love In. Enjoy getting that image out of your head 🙂

A whole world of MNPR nonsense

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Got a link for the fine work you do, Binners? May be interested in seeing what you do?

I’ll get you a Gregg’s.

WOW 😯 thats cheap.

What can I get for 2 steakbakes and an apple turnover ?

Got a link for the fine work you do, Binners? May be interested in seeing what you do?

Was going to ask the same question!

http://www.adamrowlinson.co.uk/

I have had a couple of things from him - one off the shelf and one custom. Absolutely delighted and we met up on both occasions - what a top bloke.

What can I get for 2 steakbakes and an apple turnover ?

The answer is obvious

Binners Love In

I really should update my website more often. I've done so much stuff that isn't on it. Everything is social Meedya nowadays. Down with the kids and all that. Its all a bit mad seeing it on screen as I like to work BIG so they look totally different in the flesh. I've been working with a local printer (who's also a mountain biker and all round top bloke) for years and we've got it nailed now. We whack the colour saturation up to 120% so everything floods and print on photographic paper on a digital wide-format press

You can also see more stuff on Facebook at Adam Rowlinson - Artist

Here's one I've just sent out to Australia, which is another mad aspect of all this. I now send stuff out all over the world

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In the latest bonkers development, I'm going into a local school on Tuesday to do a workshop with the kids as they've all been studying my work.

My imposter syndrome is pesently off the scale

My imposter syndrome is presently off the scale

That's a good thing - shows you're more capable than you think you are. Although Donald is a shining example of how the opposite can be a benefit.

Love that Giant’s Causeway image. Someone needs to record an album to use that as the artwork.

Oh go on then.....

He really is as nice to deal with as that lot up there suggest! I'm off tonight to the area that he crayoned for me, very patient and very well received by the mate who's 50th it was for.

Glad its working out as a living as I will be asking for more prints soon!

I still need to speak to you Binners about doing me one for the Mini and the van...

Whilst we're at it, another happy customer here. Quickly sorted a little issue. All good.

@cb - yours was my greatest act of political vandalism yet. I was really pleased with how it came out considering how much we got in there. So glad it went down well

Dave - it won't be the first VW commission. This one is a 1.5 metre high alloy plate with Mk 1-7 Golf GTi's

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It's normally the Lancs Road Club Rake hillclimb this weekend. I donate the prints to the winners every year and we always have a competition to win a big framed print to raise money for Macmillan cancer care (#jennride)

As the event isn't on this year (curse you Covid!) I'm going to have a look what big cycling prints I've got (I think I've got a big Stoodley Pike one in blue) that I can frame up and we can raffle one off over the weekend. Let's see if we can raise some money for charidee. I'm a very lucky boy and It's nice to keep the karma bank topped up.

Any advice on the best way we can do this would be gratefully received

I really like the VW one, and I've never even owned one!

I need to find an iconic local bit of Derbyshire for a commission maybe, and I think a location has just occurred to me....

If anyone needs a bespoke piece of design or artwork I thoroughly recommend Binners.

I have to concur. Mine is on the wall above the bike store (aka radiator) in the dining room. And there are only two in existence. Happy racing days, never the same since.

Here’s my lad immortalised in Leogang by Binners.

Love that Golf poster.

Hmmm! Might be after an Audi 80 to A4 version.

This one is a 1.5 metre high alloy plate with Mk 1-7 Golf GTi’s

Love it. Not to scale, obviously. 🙂

I bloody love drawing cars!

If you'd have told me when I was a kid that I could spend my days drawing cars and this would be considered 'work' then I would take this as proof of the existence of god. Still can't believe my luck!

I'm just finishing off a Lewis Hamilton Mercedes

Here's one I made earlier. Ayrton...

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Not to scale, obviously

I definitely used a bit of creative license with the scale 😃

The guy who commissioned the Golf image met me at the printers in Bury and took it back down to Woking with him. A lovely bloke, he turned up in a beautiful bright red Mk7 which was kicking out a crazy amount of horsepower and had been properly sorted. It was a lovely thing. No daft body kits or owt. We found out at that point that if you put the seats down you can just squeeze a 1.5 metre alloy plate into a Golf

I was in my tatty (but bloody good fun) old Mk 4
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this threads going off on a bit of a tangent, isn't it? 😀

Once again, can I just say a huge thank you to everyone whos commissioned pieces. I really massively appreciate the support I've had over the years from everyone here

(Yet) another happy customer, as is my wife (we have 2 original Binners in the living room). Wider family have always admired them and some have now ordered their own.

I love the idea of a really wide landscape (that red Leogang one is awesome) but running out of wall space!

If I had studied drawing bikes and cars at school I might have liked art! Those kids are very privileged!

we have 2 original Binners in the living room

I know what this is all about, but that phrase has led to an uncomfortable mental image of two naked marble Budda like statues in your living room .....

That is indeed a deeply disturbing image

If I had studied drawing bikes and cars at school I might have liked art

I never actually took art at school as they’d just make you draw pictures of bowls of fruit and stuff. I just used to draw bikes and cars anyway because that’s what I wanted to do. Still do.

Look out for a post tomorrow about raffling off a big framed print. I’m sorting it out tonight. All proceeds to Macmillan

Binners, really nice work there on the website. I'm a designer/illustrator/graphics artist of sorts and I know what you mean about updating your website. Mine needs updating but it can be tricky being able to actually use what you've done, the work I'm currently doing involves a lot of N.D.A's so it'll be a while before I can do anything with it.

When I have W bot of spare cash - I think a commission will come in Binners way. Great stuff!!!

That is a fantastic body of work binners.

Thanks! And thanks to the deluge of commission enquires that have landed since this was kindly posted up yesterday

If you fancy winning yourself a framed print, I’ve just posted this up. All proceeds going to Saint Gemmas Hospice

https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/fancy-winning-some-nice-framed-cycling-themed-artwork/

He’s a gigantic bell-end but one cannot deny the sheer animal magnetism if one is sharing the same space with him.

Some amazing work in that link above - more creativity than I’ve seen in years all in one place.

Got two of his prints and the MNPR combo one. Quality artist. Did my wedding invites too and when we had to redesign them at short notice (don't ask), did it without quibble and only charged cost on the printing. Can't recommend highly enough.

Massive bellend of course, but I guess nobody's perfect

I’m glad we’re all decided that I’m a massive bell end

At last something we can all agree on 😃