Welcome to my illustrations section. Here you will
find illustrations for my books, poetry, collaborative submissions
and other artwork. Click on the images to see a higher resolution
version.
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Cover image for 'Yuri Gagarin - The First Spaceman'. The
book is being illustrated in ‘comic book’ style.
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Image found on page 11 of Yuri Gagarin - The First Spaceman.
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Image found on page 20 of Yuri Gagarin - The First Spaceman.
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This is the cover of my first picture book: Do
Spiders Have Ears?
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From: Do Spiders Have Ears?
Picture for page 1:
‘The children were playing,
they saw me on the wall.
a spider, just sitting,
not moving at all.’
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From: Do Spiders Have Ears?
Picture for page 8:
‘The hairs on their legs
work just like an ear,
parts of these hairs
are called trichobothria.’
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This is a black and white sketch for the cover of:
The Moon
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From: The Moon.
Picture for page 1
‘We went for a walk,
my Uncle and I
and when it got dark
we looked up at the sky.’
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From: The Moon.
Picture for page 2
‘‘Where is the moon?
It should be just there!’
I said pointing up
to a patch that was bare.’
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This is the black and white sketch for the cover of:
The Boat Journey
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From: The Boat Journey.
Picture for pages 5&6
‘I see a whale!
It comes up for air.
It lets out a spray
that wets my hair.’
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From: The Boat Journey.
Picture for page 18 (final page)
‘It picks up the boat.
A toy from the bath
and dries it along
a velvety path.’ |
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The A page of The Alphabet Book. This differs
from other Alphabet books because of the use of the both types
of lowercase 'A’. Something that every child comes across
and is baffled by to start with. |
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Background for the A page of The Alphabet Book, depicting
numerous items beginning with the letter A. |
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The B page of The Alphabet Book. |
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Background for the B page of The Alphabet Book, depicting
numerous items beginning with the letter B. |
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A quirky poem about ‘Granddad’ (my father)
who doesn’t have much hair, in fact we named the few
that were left before I left home!
Written as a child see things, observationally.
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This is the first full colour illustration that I produced
specifically for a book.
I entered it into a competition for Julia Donaldson’s
new book. Unfortunately it did not make it through to the
final.
Text on this image is © Julia Donaldson |
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Unused illustrations for The Moon.
With other books in the series, these may still get used.
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Roughly coloured sketch - preliminary idea for the inside
covers of The Moon book. (Names for each phase - to
be added.) |
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This illustration is designed as a continuation of a story
for an ‘Illustration collaboration’ on Flickr
(link will open in a new window).
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This is an illustration for the 'X' page of an Alphabet
book that I am working on as a collaboration of illustrators
(we each picked a letter to illustrate).
More information here
(opens in new window; yahoo/flickr account
required)
This is my first attempt at using Corel Draw and mixing techniques.
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"The Window Pane" My poetry coupled
with my photography. |
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"Seashells"
My poetry coupled with my photography |
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Padley Gorge Bridge – an illustration for a poem written
by Ann Lloyd for an anthology. |
This work
is licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
