"Comics, Covers and Children's"

Below is a painting I did quite some time ago for "Catkin" by Antonia Barber.

It is currently on show in the Central Library at the Ilac Centre in Dublin, as part of a collection of work from Illustrators Ireland members. 

The show, curated by IGI member Margaret Anne Suggs, is called "Comics, Covers and Children's" and features work from ... Comics, book Covers and Children's Picture books. 

So there is a huge and lovely variety of styles to see.

After the Central Library, the exhibition travels to a number of other libraries around the city, see the poster for details.

The Wise Woman from Catkin

Here's one of those illustrations that my mother posed for a number of years ago.
She modelled as the Wise woman in Catkin by Antonia Barber which I illustrated in the mid-nineties.
This was a key picture for me in many ways because it showed me I could handle more naturalistic scenes than the fantasy work I had previously done.
It certainly pointed the way towards the work I did on The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
The other models were myself, and Niamh, my girlfriend at the time.