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prints

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drawings

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paintings

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How do I become an illustrator?

how do I become an illustrator? Well first and foremost, check out the Association of Illustrators. I’m not a member myself, but membership will give you access to all the tools and resources you need...

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How do I get an agent?

how do I get an agent? Getting an agent helps if you are thinking of going into freelance illustration (a completely different kettle of fish from fine art). Agents usually know lots of people in the...

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What materials and techniques do you use?

what materials and techniques do you use? Most commercial illustrators are on a deadline, and deadlines often dictate the way you work and the techniques that you use. I love printmaking, but when you...

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Nobrow

I visited the amazing little shop for the independent publishing outfit ‘Nobrow’, which is just up the road from Old Street Station in London, near to trendy Spitalfields. They produce beautiful and...

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sketches

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Interviews, articles, reviews and press

Interviews, articles and reviews…     Patrick Ness’s wonderful book ‘A Monster Calls‘ has been getting a lot of press coverage around the world. The book has scooped a number of awards, including the...

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

I am currently providing concept images for the forthcoming BBC1 TV adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s wonderful novel ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’. If you haven’t read Clarke’s beautifully crafted...

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Memory Palace exhibition opens at the V&A.

Memory Palace is a walk-in story that brings to life a new work of fiction by the author Hari Kunzru. This narrative world is visualised through a series of commissions by 20 illustrators, graphic...

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Memory Palace

This page is dedicated to the installation piece I made for the Memory Palace exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum (18th June – 20 October 2013). The V&A commissioned author Hari Kunzru...

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A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls is a novel by award winning author Patrick Ness, (based upon a concept by Siobhan Dowd), published by Walker Books in 2011. Patrick’s story has received numerous prizes including: the...

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What techniques/materials do you use?

Most commercial illustrators are on a deadline, and deadlines often dictate the way you work and the techniques that you use. I used to love printmaking, but when you make prints (such as linocuts,...

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How do I become an illustrator?

The painting/drawing/illustrating makes up probably less than half of what is required to be an illustrator. Freelance lifestyle doesn’t suit everybody; it’s very solitary, extremely hard work...

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How do I get an agent?

Getting an agent helps if you are thinking of going into freelance illustration (a completely different kettle of fish from fine art), but again I found this difficult. I think I contacted tens of...

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How do I get work as an illustrator?

There is a vast difference between commercial artists/illustrators, and those practitioners who are fine artists, performance artists and conceptual artists. I am always working directly for a client,...

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Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition opens! (and new website)

The group exhibition ‘Memory Palace’ has opened at the V&A, after months of preparation. It was a great opportunity to meet other artists (it’s a lonely job, being an artist), including my...

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Building the ‘Darwing Reliquary’

So, here are a few images of the 3-D installation piece I made for the exhibition ‘Memory Palace’ which has just opened at the V&A, based on Hari Kunzru’s new work of fiction. It’s also a chance...

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