MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas everyone, have a lovely joyful break!

MOO HEAVEN...

This is a Christmas present for someone called Moo

who likes burgers and jelly beans... Hope she doesn't see it

before Xmas day!

Sir Deputy Triangle

Just playing around with characters made of shapes...

...more to come...

Some spaceship sketches...

Journey into space...

New Black & Whites

Hey! Some new black & white illustrations for my portfolio...

Prince Edward's Feast

New Book!!! Coming out!

Prince Edward's Feast' out in November 2009,

published by Meadowside Children's Books

and written by Robin O'Brien

Character Sketches from my new book.

Pillow Case Books

These are some old illustrations I dug out from a series

of revolting rhyme-type books that I illustrated in collaboration 

with Rowan Plinston (who wrote them).

More Illustrations...

Tryptich: Farm (detail)

Tryptich: Farm - Woods - City

Humpty Dumpty and The Great Fall

Various illustrations

A Bear's Picnic

Goldilocks

Hansel & Gretel

TYPOGRAPHY

MURALS

This is a mural I did ages ago with PRSC on Stokes Croft.

It was really good fun and is still there amongst loads of other

fantastic graffiti!

This piece represents ruthless greedy developers gobbling up our parks and country side.

This is another mural that we did as a collaboration with

a few peeps from Jamaica Street Studios in 2008 to advertise 

our annual open studios. The mural painting has become an institution

for us now, we have painted one 3 years running. 

I will dig around to find pictures from previous years!

Auctioned Canvas

This was a mini canvas I painted for our Jamaica Street 

Open Studios Auction.

FLYER for THE ART OF PICTURE BOOKS

I designed this flyer in the new style for a children's book exhibition I curated at the Nails Gallery in February this year. The exhibition was great fun an hosted nearly 30 children's book illustrators from in and around Bristol. The show was well received with visitors from publishers, agents, schools and universities from London, Oxford, Bath and Bristol. We also got good press coverage from the AOI, Venue magazine and Computer Arts Magazine.

I am planning to organise a follow up show in February 2010.

NEW STYLE

I have been trying out a new style, mixing some collage, paint and computer elements...

I am really enjoying this as it is a change from the long hours of painting!

NEW BOOKS! Published by Wayland

Here are a few images from my 4 new books published by Wayland. 

They are out now! A series of young readers called Trouble in Nursery Town

written by Alan Durant.

'Humpty Dumpty's Great Fall'

'Little Bo-Peep's Missing Sheep'

'Little Miss Muffet's Big Scare'

and 'Old Mother Hubbard's Stolen Bone'

Published books by Meadowside Children's Books

My first 3 picture books published by Meadowside Children's Books,

Woohoo!!!

'Cinder The Bubble-Blowing Dragon', written by Jessica Anderson, 2006.

'Who's in The Zoo', written by Susan Chandler, 2007.

'Who ever Heard of a Tiger in A Pink Hat', written by Nicola Stott McCourt, 2007.

This is the US Edition of "Who Ever Heard of a Tiger in A 

Pink Hat?" (2009)  published by Worthwhile Books by

arrangement with Meadowside Children's Books.

This is the Korean 'Workbook'  Edition of 'Who Ever Heard 

of a Tiger in A Pink Hat?' (2008) published by I am Books by 

arrangement with Meadowside Children's Books.

I have finally got around to starting my Blog!

So I hope you enjoy it, I will try my best to keep it updated as regularly as possible.

Here are some of my earlier books published by Meadowside Children's Books...