Many thanks to everyone who showed up for the author/illustrator event and exhibition reception party for the Children's Illustrators show at Hornsey Gallery on the 16th, it was a very busy day and a great success. During the day the Wood Green bookshop sold books from local authors as well as the exhibiting illustrators, though as all my work is published outside the UK at the moment I had nothing to sell except limited edition prints. In the evening the reception event drew publishers, authors, illustrators and at least one agent as well as members of the general public.

I was pretty busy so I don't have any photographs to show yet, but there were two photographers from the local press present so there may be some snapshots available later.
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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 general public, the viewer, not the creator.

It's the bane of the creator that we are too closely involved in our own work to accurately judge whether our work can be called Art.
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Throughout December I'm participating in a group exhibition with my old friend Jane Ray and three other illustrators. If anyone's in the area do have a look.
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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 Seren’s. It doesn’t seem like a year, that day of her death will remained engraved on my memory for all time as if it were just a few days ago. I can’t believe I’ve been away from Japan so long, our present existence still feels so temporary, as we’re still in a little apartment in a provincial corner of the UK.
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Another picture book illustration, this one from The Boat in the Tree (Front Street 2007).
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Something fitting for this weeks theme. It's from Maho no Kasa, a translated version of Rose Fyleman's story "The Magic Umbrella", published by Fukuinkan Shoten in Tokyo 1999 and reprinted 2007.
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A recent ad campaign in Japan is a fairy web picture book for the 60th anniversary of Nichiban, the Japanese sellotape manufacturer.

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. I'm afraid it's all in Japanese! On the next page choose the top icon to start the story. Buttons to move to the next page appear in the bottom right corner of the screen.

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 can't remember, it was from a doodle on a train. Skinny runt though I am, perhaps I was feeling spiritually bloated.
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I very occasionally participate in the Illustration Friday projects when I have something suitable. Here's something for this weeks theme "Island". It's from The Boat in the Tree picture book.
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Here's some images for a recent Japanese job, a brochure on the development of "Eco-cars" (environmentally friendly low Co2 emission vehicles) for JAMA (Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association).

I don't drive, so this is about as close as I get to working for the motoring industry! These kind of simple conceptual images are a lot of fun, and it's a theme often explored in my commercial work, i.e. humanity interacting harmoniously with the environment.
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