It's that time of year again so a nice seasonal image for you.  It's the cover art from my version of A Christmas Carol b...

A few images from my version of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.  I keep coming back to this story. In my opinion it is unequalled a...

Here's a preparatory sketch from my version of Dicken's A Christmas Carol. I'd like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas ...

Here are a few more. Greek? Chinese? I'll have to check. "Oscar Wilde: Stories for Children" is the most translate...

Many thanks to my FaceBook friend  Maxim Mitrofanov  who sent me these Russian covers of some of my books. I do get se...

Tonight sees the opening of a show by the Illustrators Ireland group at the United Arts Club in Dublin . It starts at 8pm, so pop in if ...

This time last year I was camped in the window of Hodges Figgis bookstore painting a seven foot canvas of the Ghost of Christmas Present...

The folks from the Ark in Temple Bar have asked me to let you know that this painting from A Christmas Carol will be included along wi...

And I'm headed back to Paris on Friday for the opening of The Book Show at the Galerie Daniel Maghen , 47 Quai des Grands Augustins. Th...

I always liked that image in the previous post, but felt that the grimness of the Spirit was compromised by the cheery household scene that ...

If you are in Bologna this week at the international Book Fair , you might consider visiting the Dickens exhibition , "Two Centuries A...

Happy Birthday Charles Dickens ! OK it was yesterday, but I don't think he'll notice, he's two hundred after all. This is a pict...

Here is a little movie of me at work in the window of Hodges Figgis. I have transferred this from FaceBook so I hope it will work here. Happ...

I have finally made up a pretty good digital approximation of my big painting of the Ghost of Christmas Present. The problem was that I coul...

Here is a short film of me putting together the canvas for the Hodges Figgis job. I hadn't made a canvas that big before and it very nea...

MaryBrigid Turner bought me a coffee on Saturday afternoon when the picture was nearly finished, and we talked about the whole business of ...

Here's a link to a story on RTE's News2Day programme about the painting in Hodges Figgis window. The kids were from Griffeen Valle...

I got a good start on my big Christmas picture last night. I got the whole thing scaled up on the 7’ by 4’ canvas, and I got a few hours of ...

Here's the rough I have created for the picture I will be painting "live" in the window of Hodges Figgis bookshop in Dublin. ...

I've been looking through old studies from my version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol trying to get a suitable design for the seven fo...