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Category Archives: Illustration
How I Write
Look at this! I don’t talk about writing for months and then I talk about it for two weeks on the trot! You’ll be relieved to hear, this one is more light-hearted. In my last blog post I mentioned how … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, children's author, children's books, computer, dreaming, Hannah Foley, kelpies, magic, MG Fiction, notebooks, paper, scotland, sketchbooks, stationery, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches, writing
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Interview with Xavier Bonet
Though we know the old adage not to judge a book by its cover, we all do. I love the cover of The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle. It tells a potential reader so much about the book before theyโve … Continue reading
SMHAF
I’ve been thinking about how The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle was supposed to be out in the world this week, and in all honesty, I’m very relieved it’s not. What a strange time it would have been, to be … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged blog, books, COVID-19, mental health, perspective, SCCR, Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle
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A bright pebble
I found this pebble hidden on the path outside one of my visits this week. The neighbour’s front window was open a small crack. Inside the house, children’s heads bobbed around the windowsill, trying to hide, but desperate to see. … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged children, community, COVID-19, daffodil, daffodil pebble, district nurse, family, home schooling, home visits, keyworker, nurse, painted pebble, smile pebble
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World Book Day 2020
It is light now when I come in from my morning bike rides. The riverbanks are full of bird song and lolloping bunnies. In the streets near us, front garden shrubs explode with sparrow chatter as we pass on the … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged 2020, Author events, birdsong, book characters, book launch, capes, Cardboard Kingdom, cardboard modelling, children's books, comics, costumes, cycling, favourite characters, Hannah Foley, Harry Potter, How Billy Hippo Learned His Colours, illustrator, independent bookshop, light, Little Door Books, parenting, Portobello Bookshop, rabbits, sparrows, spring, the Beast, vivian french, World Book Day
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How Billy Hippo Learned His Colours
Are you all safe and dry? I hope so. Itโs been a wild one, hasnโt it? We got off lightly down here, although I havenโt been over to the allotment to see how the greenhouse has fared yet. Still, no … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Uncategorized
Tagged advance copy, children's books, colours, flowers, frogs, Hannah Foley, hippos, How Billy Hippo Learned His Colours, illustration, illustrator, Little Door Books, picture books, postman, seeds, spring, storm ciara, vivian french, winter
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Faces of Transition
New work I did for the Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution (SCCR) went live last week. Their conference theme this year is The Faces of Transition. As part of this commission I used imagery from the Roman god Janus to … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged conference, Cyrenians, Faces of Transition, family conflict, future, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, Janus, past, Roman God, SCCR, scotland, Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution
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Picture Books 2019
In my fit of gardening optimism, Finch and I went to the allotment to clean the greenhouse at the weekend. Okay, it didn’t go quite like that. I cleaned the greenhouse and Finch made obstacle courses for woodlice in the … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged Ashling Lindsay, benji davies, Big Book of Blue, Clare Helen Welsh, cleaning, David Litchfield, ed vere, Eve Coy, Fiona Lumbers, Freya Blackwood, greenhouse, illustration, Inga Moore, Irena Kobold, Janet Charters, linda sarah, Looking After Daddy, Michale Foreman, Mr Bug, My Two Blankets, obstacle course, picturebooks, Six Dinner Sid, spring, Tad, The Bear and the Piano, The General, The Secret Sky Garden, The Tide, woodlice, Yuval Zommer
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