Hannaford Fresh
Two images for US supermarket Hannaford Fresh’s magazine. The main illustration was to accompany a piece about the author’s memories of various Lobster dinners.
Scottish Walking Guides
Three covers and lettering commissioned by Pocket Mountains for their series of pocket-sized Scottish city walking guides. It was really nice to do something a bit different and focus on architectural landmarks for these, I drew inspiration from vintage travel posters.
More from Being a Ladybird
A few more spreads from Being a Ladybird, the picture book I worked on with Wayland books, written by Annabelle Lynch. The third in the Being a Minibeast series follows the life cycle of a Ladybird through the seasons.
Being a Ladybird
The follow up to Being a Bee and Being a Butterfly, this is my artwork for the first spread of Being a Ladybird for Wayland books.
A spring stoat
Another personal piece. I’d love to work on some more wildlife illustrations, I’m at my happiest in nature! Using a little more texture than usual in this one.
New patterns
I enjoyed getting back into some pattern making recently, these were inspired by marsh plants.
Tobacco Factory
I loved working on a poster for Bristol’s Tobacco Factory. They wanted a lively scene showing all the different aspects of the venue to celebrate their 25th anniversary in May.
Procreate fun
A big change for me this year has been starting to use an iPad to create work. Here are some of my personal pieces created in Procreate.
Cat gif
I made my first ever gif! Can’t wait to add some movement to more of my artwork.
Character studies
Thought I’d try my hand at some character studies. Pretty pleased with how these foxes came out!
Happy New Year!
To start off 2019, here’s some work I did last year for a financial services client, and can finally share! I enjoyed the restriction of using a limited colour palette that the client provided.
Experience Life Magazine
An illustration for American health and fitness magazine, Experience Life. This image accompanied an article on different approaches to practicing mindfulness in their autumn edition.
Being a Butterfly book
Some pages from the Being a Butterfly book which arrived this week!
Being a Butterfly - Out Now!
I can finally share some spreads from my second picture book, Being a Butterfly! The follow up to Being a Bee, this is the second in a series of four about different mini beasts. This book follows the life cycle of a Holly Blue butterfly. Published by Wayland, it's available now!
Latest Lady Emily Mystery
My thirteenth cover for the Lady Emily Series! This one featuring the Tower of London. Published by Constable this coming November.
New Jo Thomas Title
My fourth cover for a Jo Thomas novel. A Winter Beneath the Stars is set in Swedish Lapland. It was great to be able to use a wintery palette for this one! Published by Headline Review, it will be out in December. Title lettering by Kate Forrester.
Lily's Mountain Map
I forgot to post this at the time but here's my map that was featured inside the YA novel Lily's Mountain that I illustrated the cover for last year. Interesting to work in black and white for a change!
Sophie Kinsella
I'm delighted to reveal my cover illustrations for a further seven Sophie Kinsella titles. Following the success of the bestselling My Not So Perfect Life in 2017, I was commissioned to illustrate the main characters for her seven standalone novels. Surprise Me recently topped the UK book charts. Published by Penguin Random House.
Wall Street Journal
I loved working on the Wall Street Journal's Summer Books feature that came out on Saturday in the US. I created a cover and several book 'badges' for the different themed sections.
Being a Butterfly
Very much looking forward to the publication of my second children's book for Hachette in July, Being a Butterfly! It's been months of work and I'll be starting on the third in the series very soon - which minibeast will feature next time?!