Sketches from the Inner Hebrides, Scotland I’ve just got back from a great little holiday visiting my mum up in Scotland. Last time we went to the Outer Hebrides and it poured with rain every day… this time we went to the Inner Hebrides and we were much more lucky! I’ll show some pages from… Continue Reading
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Bologna Book Fair It’s hard to know where to start summing up the experience of Bologna! As anyone who’s been will know, it can be an overwhelming few days. The experience of trying to cart a portfolio round to busy art directors can be exhausting and sometimes demoralising, but the benefits of seeing the best… Continue Reading
My new studio This is exciting – my first new blog post since I redesigned my website a couple of months ago! I’m incredibly busy at the moment… moving house coincided with getting a great commission to illustrate the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone, which has meant very hard work getting it all done (and… Continue Reading
National Theatre Christmas card I was delighted recently to find out that I’d won a competition to design a Christmas card for the National Theatre… it’s very exciting to see my card on sale in the bookshop there! My design was inspired by the view of the building from the Waterloo Bridge side…I’ve always liked… Continue Reading
New books, and other news… Just a final blog update before Christmas! A couple of months ago I received copies of two books that I illustrated quite recently, and I haven’t had a moment to blog about them til now. ‘This is Me’ (published by HarperCollins Big Cat) is an instructional book about making a… Continue Reading
Thought Bubble comics convention, Leeds At the weekend I attended the amazing Thought Bubble sequential art festival in Leeds for the first time. It was a great weekend with atmospheric foggy weather… It was my first time in Leeds and I really enjoyed the city. Sergio & I loved the Adelphi pub near our hotel… Continue Reading