Europa Stamps

Here are the sheetlets that I designed for the two Europa stamps.
I had very carefully included the face of the figure on the top right of the Gulliver sheet, but alas the printer has plonked a white box around the stamps obscuring the face.
On the whole though, they did a great job.

Two New Stamps: The Happy Prince and Gulliver’s Travels

An Post, the Irish Postal Service recently asked me to design a pair of stamps based on some of my best known work for the Europa series, whose theme this year is classic Children’s Books.
I revisited and reworked illustrations I had done for "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde and "Gulliver’s Travels" by Jonathan Swift.
The stamps and first day cover have just been published and I'm really pleased with them.
I look forward to travelling to Cavan someday to stick the 2 inch Gulliver stamp on the wall beside the 8 foot tall original painting.