Who finds it difficult to go to school?

One of the latest batch of pics for the British Council...

Shop Painting

Emma Norden commissioned this for her delightful shop at 64 Great Titchfield Street: http://www.showroom64.com/

Birthday Present House Painting

This was a surprise present from the husband and 3 sons to his wife.

Two new British Council pics

These are just two from the latest batch I've been working on. The second picture is meant to show a child from each of the 20 countries involved in the British Council school partnerships.

Recent Commissions

The first of this batch is to hang in the headmistress's study at the Gower School in Barnsbury, Islington and the rest were Christmas and Winter birthday presents. I was painting until 23rd Dec, making sure deadlines met. My husband John mounts and frames pics if people want that option.

House picture for family moving to India

New British Council pics

Two New House Paintings

Both these houses are in Highgate and were commissioned to mark children going off to college.

New exterior and interior pictures

The top picture was commissioned by my 93 year old mother's best friend for one of her grandsons and his family. The second picture was commissioned as a leaving present for a couple in Edinburgh.

Leaving Card

Picture commissioned privately by staff members at British Council in Edinburgh for person leaving to go to Kenya.

Christmas Carol illustrations

Examples of the next book of vignettes I've just completed for FJH publisher.

New Illustration Work

Am working on a book teaching children to play piano, published by FJH (US publisher). Lovely job to do as has challenge of tiny spaces to fill - the pics all have to be vignettes, but with very varied subjects. The job came through the lovely agency Arena.

Pics for Unicef

These are some of the pics I've just done for a worksheet commissioned by Unicef for nursery and reception children, trying to explain climate change.

New Card Designs

New House Painting for Birthday

Commissioned by Fran for her husband's birthday...

New House Painting

This pic took longer than most as the family had scaffolding outside and skips and it was difficult to see the house until all that was cleared away.

Fritz Wegner

I've put these pictures up because Fritz Wegner has always been one of my very favourite illustrators and I bumped into him again a couple of weeks ago. I first met him when I was sitting on my cards-and-house-paintings stall at Highgate Fair last year and he came up and was looking at my work so I asked if he was in 'Art' himself and he said he was an illustrator, so I gently said 'Can I ask your name?' and I nearly fell of my chair when he smiled and said Fritz Wegner. I love his brilliant drawing, line, colour and sense of humour...

More British Council pics

Have just finished big job for the British Council of over 30 illustrations for their new online course on cultural  cifferences between partnership schools. The course will be accessible to schools in the UK and countries in South America, the Caribbean, Africa, India and other countries in the Far East.

Icons of Osteopath Clinics

The osteopath, Robin Kiashek, commissioned me to do little 'icons' of his two clinics, for use on his website and stationery etc. These were coloured in Photoshop, instead of the usual watercolour technique.

High Tea of Highgate painting

Georgina commissioned this for her husband Ric for their wedding anniversary recently...