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Children’s books, illustration and publishing.

Children's Books Favourite Illustrators IllustrationTuesday 19 January 2021Tuesday 19 January 2021

Celebrating Illustrators and Colour

Many years ago I listened to Shaun Tan speaking to a small group of illustration students about how he uses colour. He showed us one of his pictures where he’d deliberately chosen a green colour for the sky. He explained that it was used by many painters and helped evoke a surreal, dreamlike effect. It…

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Children's Books IllustrationSunday 11 October 2020Tuesday 24 November 2020

Famous Story Reading

I’m a bit excited about this! A famous person reading a book I illustrated, and getting dressed up for the occasion.

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Children's Books IllustrationWednesday 30 September 2020Tuesday 24 November 2020

Reading to Children

I can honestly say that some of my favourite memories of my children being small are the times when we sat down to read a book together, or two or three. Most nights I had to put a cap on it at three or four in case I fell asleep whilst reading to them. Our…

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Children's Books Illustration Surface Pattern DesignWednesday 3 June 2020Thursday 4 June 2020

Black illustration

A blog post celebrating black illustrators and designers

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Children's Books IllustrationSaturday 25 April 2020Saturday 25 April 2020

My first story reading

At last! I was brave enough to get in front of the camera and do a story reading. And it turned out to be the best fun and much easier than I thought, so I’ll do it again. It helps that I have three teenagers who are really great at directing and editing. Directing usually…

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Art Children's Books Illustration SketchesSaturday 11 April 2020Saturday 11 April 2020

Happy Easter

Stay home, stay safe This time next year With any luck I’ll be able to look at this picture and remember this crazy time as a distant memory. A time when life was really odd but it’s ok again now. It’s not really looking likely at this stage though. But it is Easter! There’s chocolate…

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Children's Books Surface Pattern DesignFriday 20 March 2020Friday 20 March 2020

Flying Elephants from the Past

Many years ago when my parents lived in Australia (and the world wasn’t completely fxxxed…sorry, I’m trying to stay positive!) my daughter drew this marvellous elephant. Mum loved it so much she had it stuck on her laundry wall for ages. I managed to take a photo before it faded and the other day it…

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Children's Books IllustrationSaturday 7 December 2019Saturday 7 December 2019

Walls That Talk

My illustrations on the outside of a public building! Back in August The Maitland Library in New South Wales approached me to ask if they could use the illustrations from one of my books for their Christmas exhibition ‘Walls That Talk’. So I was delighted when I checked out their website and saw that they…

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Children's Books Surface Pattern DesignWednesday 20 November 2019Wednesday 20 November 2019

Excitement all round Play School, Fabric and Puppy!

Mini Celebrations We had a lot of fun watching Play School yesterday and celebrating ‘Eva’s Imagination’ being read out. It brought back memories of the time when it was on every afternoon. The bubbles were non-alcoholic, and when the kids were little they certainly didn’t have chocolate and crisps for afternoon tea. Who knows if…

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Children's Books IllustrationThursday 14 November 2019Tuesday 3 December 2019

Book reading on Play School!

We’re on the telly! I was super excited this week to hear that ‘Eva’s Imagination’ is going to be read on Play School. I used to watch the program every day with the kids ten years ago, but on Tuesday this coming week I be sitting in front of it again with my three near…

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