New FJH music pictures

A few of the 18 vignettes I've just finished for the latest FJH book.

Canada house painting

Painting of a family's holiday home, given as a present by friends who've had wonderful holidays there with them.

This is a pic I did for FJH publishers as a music vignette and which I submitted as original artwork to this exhibition at the Illustration Cupboard: http://www.illustrationcupboard.com/exhibition_details.aspx?eId=178&ePage=0 It's called 'Celebrating Asylum' and is to raise funds for St Mary Magdalene Centre for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. This small London-based charity offers some of the capital’s most vulnerable people a safe place in which to meet and study, working with refugees from countries as far apart as Eritrea and Turkey, Albania and Congo, Kosovo and Syria. I've been involved with it for a number of years and think it does wonderful work. Artworks have been donated by Jane Ray, Axel Sheffler, Chris Riddell and many other wonderful illustrators and all the proceeds will go to helping the Centre.

New music vignettes

Just a few of the 38 vignettes I finished the other day for FJH publishers in the US. I received the brief for the 9th book to work on for them this morning.

Unicef Pictures

A few of a batch I completed over the Christmas holidays for worksheets for Unicef, showing sports in UK and Africa.

New FJH music vignettes

Just a few vignettes from the book I finished for FJH just before Christmas. Am working on the next one (the 7th) at the moment...

Christmas house paintings

Three 'house paintings' that will have been revealed on Christmas morning. The top one was commissioned by the daughter for her parents and brother, the middle one for the husband and the bottom one for the wife.

Highbury Christmas Cards

I designed these as fundraisers for my local church and primary school. The top two show Christ Church in Highbury and the bottom one St John's School, Highbury Vale. I printed 1,000 altogether and they all sold except for enough of the St John's for me to send to my own family and friends. 30p from each card is going to Christ Church who are raising funds at the moment for their homeless shelter which gives meals and beds for 12 guests every Friday night for January, February and March.

China World Map

I didn't know that other countries had different world maps till I had to illustrate 'how do I view the world' for the British Council. This map is based on the world map used in China...

Hampstead House

American house painting

I painted this picture of Carolyn's childhood home in South Carolina from a tiny photo. I prefer taking the reference myself but distance and 30 year time difference (the house is now surrounded by trees and fence) didn't allow for that...

New British Council pics

House and 3 cats

Interior and exterior of a client's flat

Top Drawer

Am just surfacing from 3 days at Olympia showing my new 'dance' range of cards. In between the busy periods, had a lovely time chatting to Rosie of Rosie Wonders, Vicky of Clear Creations and my 'stand-mate' Cressida of Cressida Bell.

Two birthday house commissions

The top picture was commissioned for a dad's birthday by his wife. The lower three pics were commissioned by a young woman for her boyfriend's birthday.