AOI announces its 2019 World Illustration Awards shortlist

The Association of Illustrators has shortlisted my illustration from the Mindfulness for Children book for their 2019 World Illustration Awards and the accompanying exhibition touring the UK.

One of 200 entries selected from 3,680 submitions from 68 countries.

Also “nice” to see the wonderful It’s Nice That website include this piece when sharing the news to their devoted audience too.

My new cover for the Los Angeles Times Gift Guide for 2018

My cover for this weekend’s L.A. Times Gift Guide for 2018. See the posts above and below for more work inside the guide AND for L.A. Affairs.

Keeping the Peace

Here’s a great article to help us embrace being wrong, remove our confirmation bias and consider the benefits of listening to others. One of the best things about illustrating for editorial pieces is how much you can learn. This one is for Breathe magazine, out of the UK.

Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 2

Looking forward to seeing the second volume of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls in the flesh soon. Featuring two of my portrait illustrations along with another 98 to check out by the “best female artists of our time.” Pre-orders ship November 20!

New for Bucknell Magazine

My spread for the Spring issue of the Bucknell Magazine. ‘A New Age of Exploration’ – all about the explosive growth in knowledge and steep drop in computational costs speeding researchers advances. Fascinating read!

Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls

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I was asked to illustrate two portraits of inspirational women for the book Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls. This is Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, b. 1922, the Cuban drummer who dared to drum when it was taboo for a girl to do so. She joined Cuba’s first ever all-girl dance band at the age of 10 and went on to become a world famous musician.

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And the extraordinary Cholita Climbers of Bolivia. These women, wearing their tradition ‘cholita’ skirts, have scaled five peaks in Bolivia’s Cordillera Real range. All are higher than 6,000 meters above sea level.