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#greeting #illustration #NewYear

Goodbye Noughties, hello …. Teenies? Oneies? What will this decade be called? Wishing all my friends a happy and prosperous 2010. I’ll be...

Many thanks to everyone who showed up for the author/illustrator event and exhibition reception party for the Children’s Illustrators...

I am not an artist. Or maybe I am, I don’t know, it’s not my position to judge. Art is after all in the eye of the beholder. i.e. the...

Exhibition of Children’s Book Illustrations With works by Ros Asquith, Tanya Linch, Sian Pattenden, Jane Ray and John Shelley The show...

Today was the one year anniversary of my wife Makiko’s death. Naturally a lot of emotions have been running through my mind, and daughter...

Another picture book illustration, this one from The Boat in the Tree (Front Street 2007). It just seemed to fit the topic perfectly!...

Something fitting for this weeks theme. It’s from Maho no Kasa, a translated version of Rose Fyleman’s story “The Magic Umbrella”,...

Access the Nichiban site and click on the middle icon on the right hand side. It takes a while to load so you may need to be patient....

Here’s another image for Illustration Friday. It’s an old exhibition piece from a few years ago. Now what inspired me to draw this? I...

I very occasionally participate in the Illustration Friday projects when I have something suitable. Here’s something for this weeks theme...

Here’s some images for a recent Japanese job, a brochure on the development of “Eco-cars” (environmentally friendly low Co2 emission...

#DaiwaFoundation #JohnShelley #SatoshiKitamura

Many thanks to everyone who attended my talk at the Daiwa Foundation in London on Thursday. I was greatly surprised by the generous...

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation presents an illustrated lecture Artist in Residence: 20 years as an illustrator in Japan by John...

The Book Fair SCBWI had a stand at the Fair for the first time this year, and it was a marvellous base of operations for us. Being worn...

Every Bologna is different they say, and so it proved this year. It was the second time I’d been to the Book Fair, the last visit being...

I’ve recently returned from the Bologna Book Fair, where I was one of the speakers at the SCBWI Biennial Conference. This was scheduled a...

My deepest thanks to everyone who has supported me and daughter Seren during these past months of grief and change. It’s been tough...