2023 The Sea Picture story book

The book of the film; an old film, I'm better at drawing now and wanted to do justice to Annie, Beatrice and their enduring friendship, which leads Annie to desperate but ultimately joyful measures.
Quite a challenge as this is portrait where the film was landscape. And pacing is harder in a picture book. I made two versions: one simpler, the other more "lino-cutty"

2022 3 Sheds Picture story book

"Benny dreamt of swimming in the lake behind the garden. He wanted to feel weightless and graceful and dance in the water like a fish.
He wanted to float in the cool blue-green water and rock the seedlings to sleep in their trays, until the sun warmed their earth and woke them up again."

2022 A-Z of Sheds book

T was a treehouse or "shed-in-the-sky"; a look-out, a playroom, a shed that can fly

3 for a Threatening, threadbare thatched-hut

2021 The Daily Shed
An everlasting calendar. 366 sheds in a book

Stan: The Dark Shed, Lord of the Woodlice preferred to be known as Stan

Asher: Asher was bracing himself for a spectacular comeback; any day now...

2020 Lockdown comics :

a series of challenges set by an online comic book drawing course... during which I realised I wasn't very interested in comics, but I was interested in strip cartoons and the way in which narrative is divided into different sized chunks of time...

2018 Book Covers

...for poetry compilations by Nick Round. I was going to do them in glorious technicolour... but the client decides

2017 The Real Tree

Illustrations for a children's story by Anna Round. A collaborative project

2017

Shakespeare Comix. Adaptations from the short short animations. Experiments in layout and language