This site features children's books, card designs, calendars, CD covers, magazine illustrations and paintings and ranges over 20 years of drawing and colouring in.
I have been privileged enough to work with many wonderful people and my clients have included Oxfam, Amnesty and Greenpeace.
I have illustrated books for Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, Mary Hoffman, Caroline Pitcher and many other eminent authors, as well as designs for the Terry Pratchett Disc World Calendar. Starting at Christmas 1999 I have designed the Christmas card for the Musicians Benevolent Fund.
For Ted Hughes I produced a lavishly illustrated edition of How the Whale Became, published in the USA by Orchard Books and in the UK by Frances Lincoln. Also well known and loved is The Fourth Wise Man, adapted from the original story by Henry Van Dyke and published in 14 languages around the world. This book has just been reprinted in paperback in the UK.
This site will take you on a journey through the books, old and new, to the current projects and into the paintings of magical lands and dancing bears and musicians. Also included is a section for schools and home educators with projects and resources to stimulate children and encourage them to travel the magical world of stories and painting and to stretch their imaginations.

This year I moved my journal from within my website to the blogger format so that it could be more interactive. The new format 'blog' can be found at Drawing a Line in Time, and despite being woefully neglected in its structure it still managed to be awarded runner-up in the Completely Novel Blogger Awards. The blog is updated with new work, photos and strange musings when the spirit takes me or whilst I wait for paint to dry.

There is a new gallery space at The House of Golden Dreams where you can browse through rooms filled with paintings and prints and drawings.

 

Currently working on A Rhyme in Time for Frances Lincoln and if I meet the deadline of the end of January 2011 it should be published in the UK in Sept/October.

 

 

In August 2010 The Ice Bear, written and illustrated by me and published by Frances Lincoln became available in all good bookshops. I think it is published in Spring 2011 in USA.

 

 

The new Musicians Benevolent Fund cards are now on sale and can be bought via mail order from The MBF. Click here to see a larger version of the image below. For a selection pack of the past designs click here. This year I have also been asked to produce a couple of designs for mugs for the MBF and will add these to my website when I have seen what they look like.

 

Above are three new cover designs for "The Farseer Trilogy" by Robin Hobb, for Harper Collins. The books were published in August 2007 with their new jackets. "The Liveships" are now finished and will be published soon and "The Tawny Man" will not be too far behind. Currently working on the Soldier Son series . New work can be seen on my journal.

 

 

 

And not to be left out, following their star appearance in Your Cat magazine, The Financial Times and a very brief role in Catwoman with Joanna Lumley, the Ginger Darlings now have their own blog.

 

Limited edition prints are still available, if you go to the gallery, and the prints section of the site.

 

 

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Original paintings from the books are for sale, and there are paintings for sale in the gallery section of the website. For any enquiries please email me and if you wish to be kept informed of future exhibitions, forthcoming publications and any other news sign up to the mailing list on the site.