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I love inventing old buildings. This street view is from “The Boy Who Fell Off The Mayflower”.

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2020-04-30

Happy 2020
Here's a picture I did for one of my favourite books, "The Once and Future King", by TH White.
It shows Merlyn, Wart and Merlyn's talking owl, Archimedes reading together.

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2020-03-05

Sad to hear that Chemistry is closing its doors.
I did a couple of ads for them about ten years ago and I remember the thrill of seeing them as 48 sheet posters all around the country.
The ads won a stack of awards too!

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2020-01-18

O’Henry’s tells the story of a young, poor, working class couple. Its enduring appeal is its affirmation of unselfish love. Such love, the story & its title is like the gifts given by the wise men, called the Magi. Illustrations by

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2019-12-10

White gouache over watercolour is perfect for painting icy ghosty things.

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2019-09-02

According to chronicles, Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" was first published on this day 180 years ago as part of a collection of stories called "Fairy Tales Told for Children".

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2019-04-18

The cover art for "Once Upon a Place" is part of my exhibition "Pilgrims, Princesses and Beardy Old Men" which you can see at the Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford until August 11th.

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2018-07-17

My new scanner gets into all the lovely detail of my old transparencies.
This is Niamh of the Golden Hair from Names Upon The Harp by Marie Heaney.

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2018-03-15