My latest work is perhaps a surprising collaboration involving Disney. Popular art licensing and print company Art Print Japan, which has retail outlets across Japan, has tied up with Disney and approached 15 artists to offer their versions of Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh. These have just been released in Japan as limited edition giclée art prints.

For various reasons I prefered to avoid depicting the characters directly, and

chose instead to conceal their faces as optical illusions inside landcapes, thus....

©Disney

The prints, in editions of 100 each, measure 348×424cm and are available from Art Print Japan.
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As a repeat of a successful exhibition last year, SCBWI in Romania organised a second illustration show Imaginary Journeys combining work by name international illustrators with Romanian artists in Cărtureşti Bookshop, Bucharest, and once more kindly invited me to participate. The show was widely covered by the media and opened on 4th October. there was a big reception on 8th October, and the show was eventually extended 2 days beyond the planned closing date to the 17th.

Anyone who knows my work well may have seen this before, it's from the picture book 12 no Tsuki-tachi (The 12 Months), a traditional Slovakian fairy tale, from the version by Marshak and published by Miki House in Japan with a translation by Sho Suzuki. One of my older works, but often reprinted, a new edition is about to be released.
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The blog has been pretty quiet of late as I've been moving out of Staffordshire and settling into London. It's a big change from pretty, quiet Lichfield, but considering I've lived in cities most of my life, especially the bustle of Tokyo for so many years I feel a lot more comfortable in the big city. Location is very important for me, not only for artistic inspiration (see previous posts) but also for the convenience of living.

My biggest handicap in Lichfield was not being able to drive.
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