Mixed media, handmade.
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter
I read this story over and over, noting the order of events and it remains ambiguous to me as to whether there should be snow on the ground.
In all the other stories where there is snow on the ground, Angela Carter describes the snow beautifully. There is one proleptic piece of text, ‘her shawl like blood on snow’, to me this seemed to refer to what was to come later, indeed blood and snow came later.
So, I made it look frosty and like it may have snowed.
Mixed media, handmade.
Puss In Boots by Angela Carter
Mixed media, handmade.
The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories by Angela Carter
Book jacket cover design for The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories by Angela Carter.
This did not have to be finished artwork but did have to show certain considerations as shown in the examples of published book covers by The Folio Society.
Fox
A Character for a children’s story.
Mixed media and digital.
The Big Chase
I am slowly growing some children’s stories. These are some of my characters.
Night In The Forest
Silkscreen made at Printclub, Dalston, London.
The Outsider Book Illustration
..the people gradually disappeared, until the street was deserted
again and the first cat walked slowly across it.
Book Illustration for ‘The Outsider’ by Albert Camus as part of my entry for a February 2011 competition run by The House of Illustration in partnership with The Folio Society.
Pencil and digital colour.
The Outsider Book Illustration
…my last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators
at my
execution and that they should greet me with cries of hatred.
Book Illustration for ‘The Outsider’ by Albert Camus as part of my entry for a February 2011 competition run by The House of Illustration in partnership with The Folio Society.
Pencil and digital colour.
The Outsider Book Illustration
But I took a step, just one step forward. And this time,
without sitting up, the Arab drew his knife.
Book Illustration for ‘The Outsider’ by Albert Camus as part of my entry for a February 2011 competition run by The House of Illustration in partnership with The Folio Society.
Pencil and digital colour.
The Lord of the Flies (Throwing Stones)
Published by Carpaccio Magazine, in the current issue no.20, November 2010, ‘Go Do Endless Summers’.
Originally published in 1954, William Golding’s “The Lord of the Flies” is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times.
Book cover illustration by Nicola Rowsell
Acrylic paint on paper, digitally inverted.
Sketchbook development on Flickr
Greetings cards of this image are available to purchase in my shop.
Dogs Playing
Self initiated work inspired by my walks and field sketches.
Sketchbook pages including colour pages of this image, Christmas cards, gift tags and gift wrap are available in my shop.
The Lord of the Flies (Fire on the Mountain)
Published by The Association of Illustrators in the 2010 annual, Images 34, ‘The Best of British Contemporary Illustration’.
Book illustration by Nicola Rowsell
Sketchbook development on Flickr
Acrylic on card and digital work.
High quality prints and greetings cards are available in my shop.
GBCT crew directory book jacket cover
Published by the GBCT.
(The Guild of British Camera Technicians)
The brief was to clearly illustrate people doing their jobs, in this case, a film crew at work.
Ink and gesso on card.
illustration by Nicola Rowsell
Underwater Cameraman
This illustration is for the internal pages of The Guild of British Camera Technicians GBCT crew directory.
The brief was to clearly illustrate people working in their field of expertise, in this case, the underwater cameraman.
The directory is also a guide for people interested in working as part of a film crew and is designed to attract people to the industry.
Men to meat (Where’s the Glory?)
Published by the Association of Illustrators in the 2010, Images 34 annual, ‘The Best of British Contemporary Illustration’.
A piece of work that questions the glorification of war.
Ink, crayons, gel pens, gesso, chalk and collage.
Sketchbook development on Flickr
The original artwork is for sale at the Images 34 exhibition. For more details, click here.
A limited edition of 100 high quality prints are
available for purchase in my shop.
