It was my great good fortune to begin illustrating in the early 1980s, and to be given my first commission by Gary Day-Ellison, Art Editor of Pan/Picador Books. He was the first of a new breed of innovative Art Editors and Directors to use new young Fine Artists of all kinds as illustrators. He gave us great freedom, simple guidance, brilliant books to illustrate and an income! Others include Clive Crook of The Observer and Sunday Times, John Munday at Collins, Michael Roberts at Tatler ,and more. I had wanted my art to be fixed in the real world, applied and accessible, not caught in the 'Emperor's New Clothes' world of the art market, and illustrating has allowed this.
In 1999 Martin Harrison of The Times Saturday review commissioned a small B&W animal drawing for the Vet's Column. It became the first of a three year weekly column , and the beginning of the most joyful job I've had, as we tried to feature as many different animals as we could from the questions asked! The vet was James Allcock, a completely wonderful man - funny, kind, wise, never ever patronising - who very sadly died in November 1999. You can see some of the pictures in the Times Vet section of Illustration, and examples of his column in Publications/Work in Print section
From 1992 to 2008 I was represented by Wonderful Illustration Ltd, when I took a break to help nurse my mother .
In the Illustration section you can see original commissioned artworks, and in the Publications/Work in Print section some examples of how they were used.
CLIENTS
- Pan/Picador, Collins, Penguin, Dent, Corgi, Futura, Womens Press,
Regency Press, Walker Books, Oxford University Press,
Frances Lincoln, Duncan Baird, WH Smith, Scholastic, BBC
- Tatler, Cosmopolitan, New Scientist, Sunday Times Magazine,
Observer Magazine, Times Saturday Review, Good Housekeeping,
Working Woman, Vanity Fair, GQ, Esquire, Radio Times, R3
Magazine
- Decca, Island Records, Etcetera Records
- Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Ballet, WWF
PUBLICATIONS
"Contemporary Fashion Illustrators" ed. Nicholas Drake, Thames &
Hudson, 1987
"When the World Began" by Elizabeth Laird, Oxford University
Press, 2000
"The Pleasure of Reading" ed. WHSmith, 1992
"Teach Yourself to Dream" by David Fontana, Duncan Baird, 1997
"The Seven Cardinal Virtues" ed. Alison Fell, Serpent's Tail, 1990
* Pan Young Illustrator of the Year Award, 1988
In 1999 Martin Harrison of The Times Saturday review commissioned a small B&W animal drawing for the Vet's Column. It became the first of a three year weekly column , and the beginning of the most joyful job I've had, as we tried to feature as many different animals as we could from the questions asked! The vet was James Allcock, a completely wonderful man - funny, kind, wise, never ever patronising - who very sadly died in November 1999. You can see some of the pictures in the Times Vet section of Illustration, and examples of his column in Publications/Work in Print section
From 1992 to 2008 I was represented by Wonderful Illustration Ltd, when I took a break to help nurse my mother .
In the Illustration section you can see original commissioned artworks, and in the Publications/Work in Print section some examples of how they were used.
CLIENTS
- Pan/Picador, Collins, Penguin, Dent, Corgi, Futura, Womens Press,
Regency Press, Walker Books, Oxford University Press,
Frances Lincoln, Duncan Baird, WH Smith, Scholastic, BBC
- Tatler, Cosmopolitan, New Scientist, Sunday Times Magazine,
Observer Magazine, Times Saturday Review, Good Housekeeping,
Working Woman, Vanity Fair, GQ, Esquire, Radio Times, R3
Magazine
- Decca, Island Records, Etcetera Records
- Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Ballet, WWF
PUBLICATIONS
"Contemporary Fashion Illustrators" ed. Nicholas Drake, Thames &
Hudson, 1987
"When the World Began" by Elizabeth Laird, Oxford University
Press, 2000
"The Pleasure of Reading" ed. WHSmith, 1992
"Teach Yourself to Dream" by David Fontana, Duncan Baird, 1997
"The Seven Cardinal Virtues" ed. Alison Fell, Serpent's Tail, 1990
* Pan Young Illustrator of the Year Award, 1988
