STORY WALL

In January I was asked to paint an illustrative tree mural in the infant library at Compass Point School, Bristol.  This picture would form a backdrop to the 'story chair'.

It was a lovely open brief, so I was able to put in all sorts of fun creatures and choose the style of design.  Which meant I could be very organic about how I painted the tree and change and add things as I went along.

























Here are some photos showing the work in progress:

A bit of a close up of some of the details in the mural:

This was a lovely project to work on.  If you would like to commission me to paint an uplifting mural for your school, hospital, church or work space please get in touch.

Chansons Pour Apprendre

This has been a lovely project to work on, and I am very excited to see it completed and finally get to hold a copy in my hands!   I was commissioned to illustrate this book to accompany a CD of original french songs by Les Petits Zouzous a local french school for pre-schoolers and up.  My daughter has been listening to the music with the book on her lap over and over since it's arrived in our house!

This book with it's CD can be purchased from the Les Petits Zouzous website along with the previous French music CDs that I was commissioned to illustrate:

-Chansons d'hiver

-Chansons pour s'amuser

-Chansons pour s'amuser volume 2

-Chansons pour apprendre

Paddington Shaun

I was commissioned by the good people at Paddington to produce a design and a completed 'Shaun' based on Paddington bear.

Here is the design work and the painting in process:

He was a fun one to do, though I was very mindful of the fact that Michael Bond's Paddington is such a well-known and well loved character it would be a lot to live up to!

 

I have added some of the classic details; his suit case, marmelade sandwich and duffle coat.  I particularly enjoyed creating his textured fur with hundreds of individual hand drawn marks.

 

'Paddington Shaun' was one of 50 sheep sculptures out on the streets of London as part of Shaun in the City.  He was on display at Merchant Square, Paddington Basin.  He will be auctioned later in the year with proceeds going to The Grand Appeal and children in Hospital across the UK.