Thank you to Little Tiger Press today! I received my advance copy of the new Brazilian edition of 'By The Light of The Moon' The author Stephanie Shaw and I are thrilled!
Ruby the Duckling Easter Drawing Competition
Jonathan Emmett and I have self published the Ruby the Duckling series after Macmillan Children's Books took them out of print. We made this decision because we are still receiving wonderful letters from people all over the world who love these books and want to continue buying them.
They are selling quietly in the background and we are rather pleased with the response!
This Easter, we wanted to raise Ruby's profile again - particularly as it's the season of eggs and all things fluffy and yellow! We decided on a drawing competition where the winner would be picked randomly! (A huge relief not to judge the 'best' drawing as I loved all of the applicants and would find it impossible!!)
The response was brilliant! We had over 20 children applying. These are just a handful....
The winner was young Ethan Etherington and we sent this to him;
an original Ruby painting, signed by Jonathan and myself. We may run some more Ruby competitions in the future.
Batik workshop in local school
My son's lovely Primary school becomes a little "University" each term. How that works is the pupils choose a course and these range from Karate to Cookery, History to Recording Radio Shows. The courses change every half term and they get the opportunity to sample these amazing new experiences provided by staff, support staff and visitors! The children use the word 'University' in their everyday vocabulary and it becomes part of every pupils timetable on a Friday afternoon. Brilliant eh!
I offered my help in the Batik class this term. As an illustrator working mostly on my lonesome, it's a joy to spend a few hours with these lovely pupils, helping them gain confidence with their drawing and keeping them safe from the hot materials used in Batik.
The work turned out well!! They created some beautiful pieces of their own and this is the big piece that we worked on together. And I'm always chuckling at year 3 and 4's funny comments and ideas. They're very inspiring.
"Snow Bunny's Christmas Gift" board book release!
Snow Bunny's Christmas Gift board book release!!
Read moreLovely Old Children's Book
Lovely old Children's Book.
Read moreWotton Gallery Exhibition
It was great to be part of this exhibition again over the Christmas 2015 period. It's just lovely to see an 'Illustration" exhibition at all!
Lets have more of these so that children and adults can get up close and view the originals from their favourite books!
Under The Sleepy Stars
"Under The Sleepy Stars" written by Stephanie Shaw - ISBN 978-1-84869-054-7 Little Tiger Press
Stephanie Shaw has written this lovely reassuring Rhyme for bedtime. A pleasure to illustrate and Little Tiger have produced it with a lovely squashy cover.
Illustrating Larger than usual - on a shop window!
This was an interesting project I had this week! I don't normally work in large scale and in public too but I was asked to decorate a children's shoe shop window and loved every minute of it! Customers really liked watching the piece of artwork progress in front of their eyes and it's nice to speak directly to the public and hear their comments. The shop owner was very pleased too so it was a great day!!
Wotton Gallery - Illustration Exhibition
Sat 29th Nov- 31st Dec 2014
"Wotton Gallery", 42, Long Street, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 7BT
It is lovely to be invited to exhibit in this gallery in the Cotswolds this Christmas along side other great illustrators such as Fran Evans and Anita Jeram.
Available to purchase will be original illustrations from some of my books plus black and white sketches based on the Winter theme of the exhibition.
Snow Bunny's Christmas Gift
"Snow Bunny's Christmas Gift" - ISBN 978-0-85763-350-7 Nosy Crow
Hooray!! Another Winter adventure with Snow Bunny and her friends is available this Christmas!
Nosy Crow have gently foiled my illustrations in this second snowy installment. The sparkly pages and warm story makes it just a perfect "Christmas Gift"!
Little Puppy Lost
"Little Puppy Lost" written by Holly Webb - ISBN 978-1-84895-909-5 Little Tiger Press
I was delighted to illustrate Holly Webb's very first picture book! This is another lovely animal story by the best selling author, where Harry, an adorable little pup meets a new friend. This was great fun to work on as the pages had such a variety of locations to keep the eye interested. The adventure takes the reader and the tiny pup through the park, a woodland, the street and best of all, cuddled up safely on a warm cosy lap.
Because I Love You
October 2013
"Because I Love You" written by David Bedford - ISBN 978-0857632364
This is my second book published by the lovely Nosy Crow. An ideal bedtime book about love and the relationship between a mother and baby bear. Nosy Crow have delicately foiled my illustrations on the cover and each double page spread to give the book a magic, golden sparkle.
The paperback version of this book is to be released in January 2015
Snow Bunny's Christmas Wish
"Snow Bunny's Christmas Wish" - ISBN 978 0 85763 125 1
I'm so pleased to announce that "Snow Bunny's Christmas Wish" is out this month!! Published by the wonderful Nosy Crow publishers. Each spread has foil delicately added to make this a great gift for a little one this Christmas.
Images of the book will be up on my website soon.
