Cotton and Coal was created upon moving to the top floor of an old warehouse in Manchester's City Centre back in autumn 2007. I tried to imagine what it would have been like to live there as a Victorian bachelor. In retrospect, I really should have found it more difficult...

Nicola Mostyn provided the illustrations when it came time to introduce Batson to a wider audience through This Box Is All Yours, a collaboration between Manchester artists that emerged in 2009.