The Mumsnet Book of Bedtime Stories, Paperback

The paperback version of 'The Mumsnet Book of Bedtime Stories' is out today! It includes the story I illustrated written by Philip Bell about two children spending the night at their grandma's cottage underneath a lighthouse.You can find more about 'Bedtime at the Lighthouse' on my website

You can buy it from the Walker Books website here

Also, excitingly today is the release of 'The Mumsnet Book of Animal Stories', which is the second in the edition which resulted from the nationwide competition held by Walker Books, Mumsnet and Gransnet. This one includes a beautiful story illustrated by my classmate Narisa Togo. Buy it Here

And last, but definitely not least! Katie May Green's stunning debut picture book (also a fellow classmate) 'Seen and not Heard' published by Walker Books is out today. 

You can also purchase it from the Walker Books website here and read more about the book on Katie's Blog here

Sketchbook

Ely Workhouse

 

 See more of my Pen & Ink Building here

Pen & Ink Church

 Drawing inspired by a Orthodox Church I saw when I in Kiev a few years ago, done in Pen & Ink. I hope to develop a range of Pen & Ink drawings of buildings, which will be showcased on my portfolio site here

 Work in progress

 

 

Close up images

The Book Illustration Competition 2014, top 25 announced!

I am very happy to announce my entry for the House of Illustration and Folio Society Competition to illustrate Heart of Darkness has been longlisted in the top 25

The winner and 5 runners up will be announced at the award ceremony in September, in the meantime you can view the other top 25 entries here

Sleeping cat

Pippin

 A portrait of my cat Pippin, done in pen & ink and coloured in photoshop.

Heart of Darkness

Back in January I submitted my entry for the Book Illustration Competition run by the House of Illustration and the Folio Society. This years book was the 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad. We were asked to complete a binding design and three internal illustrations. Each illustration was completed in Pen & Ink and coloured in Photoshop.

 

 ‘Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effaced within the dim light…’

‘Sticks, little sticks, were flying about—thick: they were whizzing before my nose, dropping below me, striking behind me against my pilot-house.’

‘His covering had fallen off, and his body emerged from it pitiful and appalling as from a winding-sheet.’

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‘I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.’