GRAD SHOW ALERT! MA Children's Book Illustration exhibition at Candid Arts Trust!

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Illustration by Toby Rampton

I have just completed my MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art! More about that another time!
I just wanted to share that our grad show is at Candid Arts Trust (near Angel tube) in London, from 13th - 17th February 2024.

Come and forage through the exciting jungle of work from around 80 graduating children’s book illustration students from Cambridge School of Art! The exhibits on show include picturebooks (‘dummy books’ which are prototypes containing a few finished spreads and lots of rough drawings), posters, lots of book characters peeking from between shelves, and I’m sure there’ll be some character sculptures and other interesting bits and bobs too!

See below for an idea of what the exhibition will be like from a reel I made last year at the same event. The only difference is there are a lot more exhibitors this year. Presumably the lovely cafe will still be next door so I can commence my one-person cake-eating contest.

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I’ll be exhibiting my picturebook dummy ‘A Friend at Fable Hill’, and my comic zine dummy ‘The Neurodivergent Diaries’.

Here’s our grad students’ website.

And our course Instagram account where our work is featured in the lead up to our exhibition!

We hope you can join us and see what we’ve been up to!

New greeting cards - stay in touch by snail mail

Introducing my new cards! My ‘stay safe, take care’ and ‘thanks for everything’ cards use the same illustration with different text and were originally a watercolour postcard I made and sent to a friend during the coronavirus lockdown. As people are less able to communicate in person at this isolating time, I also made the design into a free download/printable image for anyone to use (see my free downloads section) - that version has a blank banner so you can write your own message on the front.

The two versions pictured here are available via my Thortful shop now and also my new stockist, the bricks and mortar shop Daily Bread Co-operative in Cambridge in a few days.

Stay safe, take care, and happy posting!

Quote By Maurice Sendak to inspire us into the new year

Mail art by Maurice Sendak. Credit: Letters of Note

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Credit: OpenCulture.com

I remember first reading this quote by Where The Wild Things Are writer/illustrator Maurice Sendak somewhere years ago and it truly warmed me up from the inside. I’m sharing it today to spread some warmth around during this cold, bleak January.

Then I shall stick a copy of it above my desk and return to read it often.

Or perhaps I will eat it?

Nature journal & design sites

Hello!
I’ve been squirrelling away behind the scenes uploading my illustrations to websites such as Redbubble, Society6 and Zazzle.

These platforms do everything from taking your product orders, to printing and manufacturing the items, to delivering the orders.

My most recent illustration, available as the printed front cover of ‘my nature book’, a sketchbook/journal for drawing nature finds, mindful musings, fungi identifications, or what ever one decides to create within.

The designers receive a commission from each product sold. Orders are anonymous and are sent directly from the company to the customer.

The range of products on offer varies from site to site. The products I’m personally offering with my designs are varied too depending on the format and size of the original image files and what the fit onto. If it wasn’t for these sites I wouldn’t be able to offer my images on e.g. side tables or duvet covers which is fun!

‘There’s gnome place like home’ cushion. Click image to see listing on Redbubble.

Time for tea? Click image to see listing on Redbubble.

For future reference, my online shop/product links can be found under Shop —> Stockists in the navigation menu of my website.

Thanks for looking!