58 MR PENFOLD
MR
WORDS | Emily Hobbs
PENFOLD
“Drawing has always been the most important thing for me, it’s
how I communicate,” says Mr Penfold a.k.a. 20-year-old Tim Gresh-
am from Cambridge. Well that would figure, being as he comes
from somewhat of an artistically talented dynasty – with brothers
Nu:Tone and Logistics, he was always going to be creative.
“We’re not a competitive family,” he says, “but it helps that we don’t compete. “Ha ha, yeah that was good fun,” he admits. “The producer just sent me a
We’ve all grown up doing our own things. Being part of a family where it’s message through MySpace, asking me if I wanted to paint their studios. I’ve got it
normal to do creative things really helps; in fact, we end up helping each other on DVD at home, it’s funny watching it back.”
out a lot. But that’s just my point of view. Maybe they all secretly hate me!”
Semi-clad ladies aside, Mr Penfold tells me he often finds inspiration in his
Mr Penfold started off designing flyers for Spoonfed and quickly branched into workplace; “Obviously music plays a big part - I can’t work without it – but the
clothing and skateboards. “As far as my design work goes, yeah I always wanted to do pub I work in is my biggest inspiration,” he says. “I come in contact with some
clothing,” he says. “I love the idea of seeing people wearing something I designed.” incredible looking characters. But don’t tell them that, some of them are real
scary! I also have a job in a professional printmaking studio working with lots of
Although he claims not to have a particular preference for designing for any interesting artists and I’m being exposed to a lot of new media and techniques,
one medium, Mr Penfold admits that flyers are useful ways of testing a design’s which is changing my work daily. So I’m hoping something must be rubbing off.”
popularity and can give him a good steer on which ones would be popular as
skateboards or on T-shirts. Given his pedigree, I’m guessing that Mr Penfold will be doing quite well on his
own for a while to come. The most imminent future project being the release of
However I feel he may be holding back slightly in pronouncement of his favourite his own clothing brand ‘penetpaper’; keep your eyes peeled and in the meantime,
working materials given that he was recently commissioned to paint the Nuts TV check
www.myspace.com/gresh or
www.mrpenfold.blogspot.com if you want to
studio live on air. Simply T-shirts vs fit birds in wet T-shirts? Surely there’s no contest? buy work or simply keep updated.
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