News: Publishing

As we enter the start of 2020, a time for exciting new projects, collaborations and Illustrations, we wanted to remember all the fantastic work created by our artists over the last year. Here is our 2019 round up of the ‘Best of Illustration’! Animal Atlas by Anne Rooney and Lonely Planet Kids. This stunning picture […]

Lindsey Spinks has lended her Illustrative charm to the Waitrose November Party Season Survival Guide. Illustrating a variety of different vibrant fruit and veg, Lindsey created each drawing to sit alongside exciting healthy recipes for the ultimate party host to try. Lindsey worked closely with Art Director Kat to create rough pencil sketches that were […]

We are delighted to announce that in the run up to Christmas, The Story of London Underground Illustrated by Sarah McMenemy, Christmas Shopaholic Illustrated by Lucy Davey, The Book of Dust (Volumes one and two), Seashaken Houses, Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp and Erebus Illustrated by Chris Wormell, Shakespeare For Every Day of The Year Illustrated by Harry Goldhawk, The Snow Queen […]

Planetarium: Welcome to the Museum by astrophysicist Raman Prinja and Ilustrator Chris Wormell has been chosen by children as the winning book for the 2019 Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize. The prize was awarded at a ceremony hosted by CBBC’s Lindsey Russell at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, this afternoon (13 November […]

Laura Barrett has illustrated a stunning silhouette of the much loved Jane Austen character, Mr Darcy, for a new book by Garbielle Malcom, commissioned by Imogen Streater at independent publisher Endeavour Quill. We spoke to Laura, asking how she approached such an exciting project. Laura told us, as with any illustrated project, this one started […]

In our latest book delivery day, we were incredibly excited to receive a copy of Animal Atlas by Lonely Planet Kids and Anne Rooney, Illustrated by our hugely talented Lucy Rose! Lucy was commissioned by Lonely Planet Kids to illustrate the enchanting and educational children’s book: Animal Atlas, a book that explores the Animation Kingdom […]

We are very excited to announce that When the Whales Walked has been shortlisted for an SLA information book award! The talented Hannah Bailey was commissioned by Quarto to illustrate the non-fiction children’s book When Whales Walked, written by Dougal Dixon. The first book in the series, followed by When We Became Humans, has been shortlisted for […]

We are incredibly excited to introduce our newest Illustrator and Motion Designer: Harry Goldhawk. Based in Cornwall, Harry’s beautiful digital drawings explore nature, the elements and cool cowboys; he loves designing fantastical book covers and animating exciting motion graphics. Alongside Illustration, Harry is also the co-founder of Papio Press, an Art Print and Accessories Company […]

In her latest instalment of beautifully drawn books, Lucy Rose has added her illustrative charm to Au Coeur de la Foret, an anthology of short stories all with a ‘tree theme’ written by various young French authors. Lucy was commissioned by Auzou Publishing in France to illustrate the cover for the new fiction children’s book Au […]

The wait for the next Book of Dust installment is finally over! Philip Pullman’s newest novel makes the reader question their understanding of the world they live in, whilst delving deep into the next stage of Lyra’s epic adventure. The cover was illustrated – once again – by the endlessly talented Chris Wormell. Chris has […]

We are very excited to announce that When the Stars Come Out has been longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2020! Lucy Rose was commissioned by Caterpillar Books to illustrate When the Stars Come Out, written by Nicola Edwards. This was Lucy Rose’s first children’s book project, and it required an extensive amount of highly narrative […]

Lucy Davey has illustrated a plethora of dainty drawings for Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic series. Richard Ogle at Penguin, briefed Lucy to illustrate bright and playful spot-illustrations that reflect the theme of each book. When completing the project, it was important for Lucy to keep the Becky Bloomwood character recognisable and to maintain a consistent series-style. Lucy […]

This September, Scholastic released new editions in the cult ‘game-in-a-book’ series, Fighting Fantasy. Rob Ball has been producing artwork for the Fighting Fantasy covers for a number of years, but this the first time he has produced the interior illustrations as well. When we caught up with Rob, he exclaimed his excitement about the project […]

This month we were very excited to see Daniel Long’s intricately illustrated compendium of rocks, minerals, microscopic life, plants, and animals, in Ben Hoare’s new book, The Wonders of Nature. Here’s a sneak preview of some of the curious creatures Daniel illustrated for the book…  

Dàlia was commissioned by Alma Editorial – a Spanish publisher – to work on an illustrated collection of Jane Austen’s classic books Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion and Emma. Alma gave Dàlia creative freedom for her reinvention of these classic books – the only limitation was the colour scheme, Dàlia had to use black, […]

Kate Forrester has indulged us in a behind-the-scenes update on her design process for Andrew Baker’s new book, From Bean to Bar: A Chocolate Lover’s Guide to Britain. From Bean to Bar is a celebration of artisan chocolate-making in Great Britain. It specifically focuses on celebrating people that are producing delicious chocolate from ethically sourced […]

We are very excited to announce the publication week of The Magic Place – a children’s book written and illustrated by Chris Wormell. Chris has created many stunning illustrations whilst being represented by Artworks, and it is wonderful to see him illustrating his own book. The Magic Place tells the story of Clementine and her […]

Hannah Bailey was commissioned by Quarto to illustrate the non-fiction children’s book When We Became Humans, written by Michael Bright. This book is second in a series following When the Whales Walked – which Hannah also illustrated. When she was asked to take on the second book Hanna was thrilled, saying that she loves to […]

Liam Diane at Scholastic, commissioned Lucy Davey to create an atmospheric, wraparound book cover for The Runaways – a YA novel by bestselling author Holly Webb. The book is set during WWII and features a group of high-spirited, runaway evacuees. Lucy was asked to illustrate the protagonist Molly and her dog silhouetted amongst piles of […]

Using her signature style of soft, textured drawings, Lucy Rose has created a series of beautiful illustrations for Gill Hasson’s book, Mindfulness. She was commissioned by the National Trust for this project and was really excited to work on a project that had such an optimistic subject matter. The initial stages of Lucy’s creative process […]