He was commissioned for portraits for album covers for David Bowie (Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and Tin Machine) and Hazel O'Connor (Sons and Lovers).
)"[2] Bell worked as a freelance photographer undertaking various iconic art projects including work for Vogue and Tatler, as well as the album cover for David Bowie's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) of which he has written: "This client was dressed in an insipid yellow, short sleeved shirt and bright red trousers, but most damning of all he wore dark glasses to examine the pictures.
Here I depict the varied combinations of black white, tranquil, tortured, grey, craven, colourful, Mickey Mouse, monstrous ….
"[3] Bell's latest exhibition One Sky, Gallery 286 is a series of skyscapes and landscapes, painted 'en plein air' in oil on canvas or board.
[5] In 2005, Bell was among the many artists, including Sir Paul McCartney, David Hockney, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, who produced a postcard, selected by Bernard Williams of Christie's, for the Art of Care Auction in Edinburgh.