I am honoured and delighted that this illustration from The Boy Who Fell Off The Mayflower has been selected by jury for the Origina...

Another detail from a painting for that book that will publish next year. I had a lot of fun doing this storm scene.

Here's a nother detail of one of the illustrations for the book I am just finishing up.  The ship is being loaded and our hero and fri...

Here's a detail showing a burial at sea from the book I am just finishing up now. I've got a ton of work still to do but I can'...

I had fun looking through some old work for a painting for a forth-coming group exhibition of Irish picture book artists that will take ...

Here's a sailor from the nautically flavoured book I am working on now. I had a lot of fun playing about with the light effects on t...

These two paintings   from The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey are the two of mine that are included in " Pictiúr " ...

Here is a scan of the finished painting which I have tweaked a little bit in Photoshop. This is very much a picture to be looked at up c...

I've pretty much finished this illustration now. I have scanned the painting and am giving it a final tweak in Photoshop. Here are th...

Here are three more pictures showing the progress of my Bustling London illustration. I've begun adding the characters on the ...

I'm really enjoying working up my painting of 17th Century London. Although I did a very detailed drawing for this piece I hav...

I posted a sketch of Bustling London a little while ago. It's the first scene from the book I am working on. Here are a few photos s...

Happy St George's Day. I haven't ever illustrated that saint's story but this has similarities. It's video of me doing a...

Here's another early piece from my portfolio that I have always been very fond of.  This one is called "The Light Machine"...

I'm roughing out some long vertical illustrations for the book I am working on at the moment and that made me think of other long p...

Here are three of my illustrations from Ignis by Gina Wilson , which are among a bunch that are winging their way to Cologne in Germany fo...

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

I rarely paint watercolours from life apart from the occasional still life, so it was unusual for me to tackle the subject of Dora, a neighb...

I've had cause recently to go through my archive of original illustrations. That word "archive" makes it sound a lot more neat...

Many thanks to Laureate na nÓg, Siobhán Parkinson who gave a wonderful speech at last night's launch of the IGI exhibition at the Unit...