I’m posting this from a hotel room in Amsterdam, as the missus, daughter and I are at the beginning of a 2 week break in Europe. We’ve...

A slightly different world to mine, in the sense that it’s a blog about creating cartoons and animation by Mark Kennedy, who’s worked for...

Yes it’s been a hectic summer, hence the lack of posts here. Family visiting, deadlines, and not a holiday in sight. Oh well, at least I...

Finally I’ve got myself a brand new scanner (newly released Epson f-650). So here are some recent doodles from my pocket sketchbook… it...

The past few weeks I’ve been completely involved with a picture book deadline, hence the silence on the blog[. However it’s all in the...

Things are desperately hectic right now as I’m approaching the end of a picture book deadline, hence the lack of posts. I’ll have a lot...

From yesterday’s Japan Today: “Monday, June 5, 2006 at 15:11 EDT TOKYO — The government decided Monday to cancel its recent award to...

Finally catching up with things after the exhibition. Here’s another illustration blog,ILLUSTRATION ART, a sharply observed insight on...

Today the exhibition at Space Yui finally ended after a very hectic week. I can’t say exactly how many people came to the show, 117...

Some more photos of the gallery…. #andersen #exhibition #spaceyui

A big thank you to everyone who came down to the launch party for my exhibition at Space Yui. Unfortunately not many photos were taken,...

If you’re in Tokyo please drop in to the Gallery Space Yui, the show runs from 15th – 20th May, 11.00am-7.00pm. If Tokyo’s a bit...

#character #childrensillustration #Janome #watercolour

I’ve not posted much in the way of artwork, so here’s something you won’t find on my website. It’s the background image for a series of...

Recently I’ve been reading Malcom Yorke’s fascinating biography of author/illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), one of my illustration...

Domestic and work matters have occupied so much of my time I’ve not had chance to blog much lately. Things shall settle soon I hope. In...

Well back to business, here’s the blog of Seattle based children’s illustrator John Nez, a long-time cyber colleague.John Nez...

It was a simple, but elegant service. The vicar(?) was a Brit, and gave a sermon in stumbling Japanese that no one could understand, but...

Now here’s somewhere that really is in the middle of nowhere. Last weekend was spent in Fujiya Hotel, Hakone National Park’s oldest...

Here’s another children’s illustrator’s blog from the UK I just came across. Lots of images to warm the cockles of an old ex-pat’s heart...