Oxfam Christmas Cards

I was delighted to license 2 of my designs to Oxfam for Christmas cards a few years ago. I am often approached to design or license for charity cards, and it's great when the report back from the charity is that the cards sold well, in fact my leaping hare design was their bestseller!

Harper Collins Big Cat

In my first project to illustrate a fictional story book for young readers, I designed the pages and vignettes for 'How Birds Got Their Colours' written by bestselling Australian children's book Author, Helen Chapman. 

Helen has been an author for 38 years has 96 published books!

Here is my colourful cover for this exciting tale. My illustrative approach was to use my pointillist technique but in a way which resembles Aboriginal art.

A wonderful collection of creation stories from Australia, telling how the koala lost his tail, the kangaroo got her pouch, as well as how the birds got their colours. This is a Topaz/Band 13 book offering longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.

You can buy Helen's lovely story book here.

Michael O'Mara

Another edition in my colouring book portfolio is 'The Art of Mindfulness - Relaxed and Focused Coloring'.

Here is a video introduction to the book published by Michael O'Mara Books.

Buster Books

In another project to design pages for a colouring book, I was commissioned to collaborate with other artists, such as the talented Felicity French and Chellie Caroll to create 'A Calming Colouring Book for Kids' published by Buster Books a division of Michael O'Mara.

 I had to design lots of fun pages for children to colour or to fill with their own imagination.

Harper Collins

During the first fresh waves of colouring books for adults appearing on the shelves of many bookstores across the world, and the art of mindfulness at the forefront of many publishing companies, I was commissioned by book publishers Harper Collins to create a 'Floral Adult Colouring Journal'.

The book is full of pages to sketch and write, to focus the mind and take a break from the stresses of everyday life.

A great commuters book, or something to pick up in the evening when you are relaxing.

This was a very pretty project, full of line art and tasks to complete, and a very pleasurable book to work on. I was even challenged to create dot to dot pages, something new to me to design, but I had great fun constructing the layout.