Jancia ze Lwowa

Jancia ze Lwowa, or Jancia from Lwow, tells the true story of a family growing up in Lwow during the second world war.  The colour illustrations were commissioned by a colleague who wrote the story and published it herself earlier on this year.

I will post more images from this project later, but for now it's great to finally be able to share these images on my blog!

Meanwhile...

...away from all the book art and laser cutting, here are some other things I've been working on over the last little while.  Apart from a couple of images, they're all sketchbook drawings, drawn either from life or from memory.

Souper Saturday postcard auction

departure lounge

departing loungers

Sepia city

Below are some photos of a tiny fold out book I made last month, painted in sepia ink and watercolour on an off-cut of Fabriano.  The imagery is loosely based on Lwow in Ukraine, which is the setting for a children's book that I'm currently illustrating.

(Sadly I can't share any images from the commission here yet)

 

England's green and pleasant land

This is one of a few pieces of artwork I did for Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club's upcoming production of Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth.  The play is on from Tuesday 22nd until Saturday 26th of October 2013 at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge.

  

From ADC Theatre's website:

Sex, drugs and trance music. That’d be village gala day.

Gala queen Phaedra is missing. Troy, Phaedra’s stepfather, suspects that the anarchist, waster and ex-daredevil motorcyclist Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron is involved. At the same time, Rooster is being evicted from his illegally parked mobile home in the woods next to the new estate. But Rooster is in good spirits. Providing safety for outcasts and eccentrics, he enthrals with stories of ancient myth and forest sprites. He may even be one. He is also an absentee father, has violent episodes and likes young girls.

Fast, funny and sexy, and crafted with deep intelligence and insight, Jerusalem is the ‘instant modern classic’ (The Telegraph), a vision of contemporary England that galvanised critics from London to New York.

‘Jez Butterworth’s wildly original hymn to eccentricity’ - The Mail on Sunday

‘The best new play of the decade’ - The Times