GALLERY
About
Hello, I'm a freelance illustrator based in the UK.
I was born in London, and started out in illustration with work for fantasy & horror small press magazines in the '80s, in particular the H.P. Lovecraft-devoted Dagon. My first professional commissions came from Games Workshop for their magazine White Dwarf, and this began a long relationship with the company, illustrating lots of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay publications and the very first Warhammer 40,000 book, as well as many other GW books and boardgames. I've also done game-related material for other publishers, including covers and internal illustrations for twenty-two (I think) of the Fighting Fantasy series from Puffin Books/Wizard Books, and card art for Magic: The Gathering from Wizards of the Coast.I've also produced artwork for various publishers around the world including Scholastic, Time-Warner, HarperCollins and Oxford University Press, illustrating popular authors such as Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Feist and Harry Turtledove, as well as some classics including Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and The Silver Sword. I was fortunate enough to receive the British Fantasy Award for Best Artist.
I illustrated the book accompanying the album release of Misterstourworm & the Kelpie's Gift, an orchestral work based on stories and characters from Scottish legend. My artwork was used as large-scale backdrops for live performances of the work by The Orchestra of Scottish Opera, with narration by Lord of the Rings actor Billy Boyd.
As an author, I've written some books about digital art including Digital Fantasy Painting Workshop and Digital Horror Art, and edited Fantasy Art Now published by Collins. In addition to work in publishing, I occasionally do concept and production art for computer games (following two years as an in-house artist at Eidos Interactive), and film and television productions which have included the BAFTA-nominated The Magician of Samarkand for the BBC, and most recently Gulliver's Travels for 20th Century Fox.
Currently: October 2015: My latest picture book The Crocodolly was published in hardback by Scholastic last month, and is available in Australia, New Zealand, and soon to be released throughout Asia in English, also with a translation into Chinese. The Crocodolly is something of a companion to my earlier picture book The Octopuppy which has been doing pretty well internationally -- more info at www.theoctopuppy.com Right now I'm working on my next picture book; so most of my energies have been directed towards my books for children. But I've also just finished another album cover for Axel Rudi Pell, which is the fifth sleeve I've done for his records. I've also been doing a little bit of work on the Game of Thrones computer game.
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- The Kelpie's Gift, a musical adventure
- Gulliver's Travels
- The Forgotten Spell
- New Warlock
- Planet of the McKennas
- Great Explorers
- Battle for Rondo
- Rondo slipcase
- Strip tease
- Wizard of Rondo paperback
- The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
- Howl of the Werewolf trailer
- New Fighting Fantasy covers
- Midgard
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- Hour of the Beast
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- The Crest
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- Hunted
- An old Newman
- Album cover rough
- The Grasping Goblin!
- Spider Queen
- The Lighthouse-keeper
- Got my Eye on this car
- Magazine interview in Russia
- Pick pocket fantasies
- Fantasy Art: 30 Postcards
- The Desperate Dwarf
- Packed Lurnch
- Skinned
- Circle of the Oath
- Blog Interview
- The Calamitous Queen
- Character Design & Model Release
- SFX Special Edition
- Sherlock Holmes
- Macbeth's Disciple
- The Rondo Series
- Tee time!
- The Lonely Tumbling Waters
- The Gift - a first glimpse
- Sherlock Holmes - the return of
- What's On?
- Ancient images No.1
- Fighting Fantasy original artwork
- Skull Bearer
- Ancient images No.2
- The Gift - the first copy
- RPG & CCG Artists
- Prints and Posters
- The Pirate of Beyond
- The Weird and the Wonderful portfolio
- The Gift - published today
- XB-1!
- Night of the Necromancer
- Happy Halloween!
- Spectre Press portfolio
- Kim Korpse
- IndieCon - original artwork sale
- La Nuit du Necromancien
- The Gift - a modern-day Christmas classic!
- Frank Hyde
- Dark Heart
- You Are The Hero
- The Gift - A Timeless Classic?
- Artwork on Tour
- Yuletide Felicitations
- More XB-1
- Chee-Chee
- Another new model release
- New book - finished
- Chamber of Chills
- Tentacles
- The Octopuppy
- Inside The Octopuppy
- Octopuppy - the cuddly toy!
- New Octopuppy site
- Normal monster service resumed
- Foot Innsmouth
- Cthulhu
- Innsmouth look
- Ancient Images #3
- Vintage Warhammer
- Doctor Who
- Stephen Jones
- In for me
- Into the Storm
- A Danish wizard
- Do Little
- Pete's a nut
- Evolution of a cover
- New Fighting Fantasy
- Space Marines from long ago
- Fighting Fantasy Fest
- On the Trail of a Grecian Cthulhu
- Talisman of life after Death
- British Fantasy Awards
- App irate
- Artwork travels
- OLDHAMMER!
- ORRER
- Ancient Images #4
- Fighting Fantasy - BANNED Artwork!
- Death Jester
- Ancient Images #5
- GW & FF live on
- Knight's Call
- Artwork Archive
- Prints
- She's a model and she's looking blue
- The return of Return
- The Haunter of the Dark