Holiday on Colonsay

'Scotch Mist'

'Crofting'

'By the Skin of their Teeth!'

'Brolly and Blackberry'

Produced these as postcards which I sent to friends and family on the two solid days of pounding rain followed by thick Scots mist which meant couldn't get out much on island....

More Christmas Work...

Christmas activity pages I've been working on for Bloomsbury.

Christmas carol illustrations - in May!

A strange time of year to be thinking of Christmas carols - here are the latest batch for FJH music publishers. The weather at the moment makes it seem not so strange, unfortunately!

Two different houses

Town mouse, country mouse...

house painting

latest 'house painting'. The client liked the idea of showing more of the street than just their own house - more of a 'community feel'...

cottage door painting

This was commissioned by a young lady for her boyfriend...

More British Council work

 Have just about finished this job which started last August: another online global partnerships course, linking schools in the UK with ones across the world.

Mother's Day Cards

new work through British Council

some of the new batch of pics I've been working on...

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.