Picturebook & character design

Personal project

Concept for a picture book about the fancies and foibles of a country lad discovering the contemporary art world, starting with the Modernists.

I love making characters from found objects. This fellow sprang to life with a pair of secateurs in the garden one verdant Spring day.

Picturebook & character design

Personal project

Illustrations and design for a picture book about the simple delights that nature provides us with. Each spread features a different hand-painted animal, and related words about the wonders of nature.

You can see more paintings from this series, Les Animaux, here.

Paradise Hunter

Design concept for a book cover featuring one of my collages that was exhibited at Tweed Regional Art Gallery, and gold foil to imply a sense of treasure and adventure — things that paradise hunters often seek.

Character & book design

Personal project

A concept for a children's picture book. I drew the illustration in pencil and then coloured it in Photoshop.

Character & book design

Concept for a book cover featuring a collaged painting of mine of fairy wrens in stripy jumpers, under a nom de plume, Bertie Appleblossom.