Drawing in the Sea co-editions

My sea-themed activity book 'Drawing in the Sea', originally published by Edizioni Corraini, is now available in French and German. Both editions are out this month: the French edition 'Tout sur la Mer' is published by Editions Les Grandes Personnes and the German, 'Meer Malen', by Verlag Antje Kunstmann.

Visit to Ilustrarte

I recently spent a lovely few days in Lisbon, eating custard tarts, admiring beautiful tiled buildings, travelling on trams and visiting the Ilustrarte exhibition where my work is on show. The exhibition is on at the museum of Electricity, and is wonderful mix of many beautiful images and books. As last time, the display is unusual, and illustrations are shown in glass cases lit up from inside and set within large, different coloured foam blocks, stencilled with artists' names. It is coming to an end in Lisbon (this weekend), but will then move on to Ghent and Madrid.  

Drawing in the Sea launch party!

Last week I was in Milan for the 'Grande festa del mare', an exhibition, launch and party for my new book 'Drawing in the sea'. It was a great night, organised by Corraini and held at 121 bookshop. Visitors could get involved by adding their own drawings to huge posters of pages blown up from the book, there was food, drink, a great band and a discount on all books for one night only! Here are some photographs of the event.

Turin book fair

 

I'm just back from a few days in the beautiful city of Turin where I visited the annual book fair and saw my new book in print for the very first time! The fair itself was very large and extremely busy, different to Bologna in that it's a public event (rather than industry geared), and almost all the exhibitors were Italian. There was loads going on, including a huge number of workshops, talks, discussions, cooking demonstrations, free ice-cream and more! I was there to do some workshops based on the new book and also do talk at a high school. Here are some pics of the fair and the city - more on the workshops soon...

Drawing in the Sea

My new book for Edizioni Corraini, 'Drawing in the Sea', is out this week, and will be launched at the International book fair in Turin. ‘Drawing in the Sea’ takes us on an entertaining journey to the depths of the ocean, it’s part activity and part quirky facts about all things sea-related – from sea creatures to tides, shells, boats, tattooed sailors and so on… As usual it is my own quirky take on the subject, allowing the reader to see the sea as never before. Here, the constellations are made of starfish, huge blue whales live alongside miscroscopic plankton and pigs can breathe underwater! The book is available from Corraini and will be coming to my online shop soon.

Secret 7" exhibition

Last month I took part in an exhibition of seven inch record sleeves at Idea Generation Gallery in Shoreditch. Around 700 designs were on show, each inspired by one of seven tracks by The Cure, Florence and the Machine, Bombay Bicycle club, Noah and the Whale, Ben Howard, CSS and DJ Shadow. Similar to the RCA's secret postcard exhibition, the artist's names were not revealed until a piece was bought - whereupon the purchaser could find the name of the artist hidden inside, plus a limited edition vinyl of the relevant track. My chosen track was 'Black flies' by Ben Howard and the artwork is inspired by the lyric 'Maybe you were the ocean when I was just a stone'. Sleeves were sold in aid of the Teenage Cancer trust.