Why Gherkin Cowboy?

Why "Gherkin Cowboy"? Don't ask me!
 I am just a digital artist, who wants to showcase all his work here, that he does in his spare time.
But it seems that I have a longer love affair with mixed pickles, proofed by this illustration I did 12 years ago. The Gherkin Cowboy is part of a children's book I am working on and he somehow made it on my blog screen.