The National Library of Ireland's Prints and Drawings Collection

Someone contacted me recently about a picture that they had seen in the National Library of Ireland's Prints and Drawings Collection.
Under the directorship of the wonderful Dr Pat Donlon, the NLI acquired a large collection of my original work, which they have added to over the years. Pat was very keen to get hold of preliminary drawings and unused paintings from right at the start of my career.
The ink line drawing pictured here is from "WB Yeats: Fairy Tales of Ireland".

Tail Feathers from Mother Goose

I was talking to some illustrator friends last night about the joy of working in black and white. Then I realised just how long it has been since I illustrated anything using ink line drawings.
Here's one I did back in the 1980s for a Walker anthology called "Tail Feathers from Mother Goose: The Opie Rhyme Book" .