Maker's Market

I will have a stall at this market, selling a selection of my illustrated cards including some hot off the press new Christmas cards. Also a selection of limited edition pigment prints and clay bead decorations. Do come along! :D

Competition time!

Christmas Boutique

After a very successful first year, the Christmas Boutique in Ranelagh Arts Centre is coming back again! It will run from the 12th-23rd December 12 days of Christmas! I will be including a selection of prints and a large selection of cards, featuring some favourites such as 'Piggy' below and some brand new designs. Watch this space for more details..

Easy Shortbread Biscuits

Ingredients

2oz/55g caster sugar
4oz/125g butter
6oz/180g plain flour


Preheat oven to 190C/Gas 5.


Beat the butter and the sugar together until smooth, then stir in the flour a little at a time, to make a smooth paste.
Turn the mixture onto a clean surface and carefully roll out to a thickness of about 1cm.
Cut into fingers (Use a long non-serrated knife) and place onto a baking tray (I place a sheet of greaseproof paper on the baking tray).  Leave in the fridge for 15-20 minutes.
Mark the biscuits with a fork and bake in the oven for approx 15 minutes, or until pale golden-brown. (*Tip take them out when they are 'just starting to colour' if you want a softer crumbly biscuit.)
Sprinkle with a little castor sugar and set aside to cool.

These biscuits are great with a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. They are also fantastic with good vanilla ice cream! :)

Enjoy!

SWENY's

SWENY's pharmacy is a little gem in the centre of the city. Catering for multinational visitors attending the Joycean readings; 'Finnegan's Wake' on Sunday evenings and 'Ulysses' on Thursdays are my favourites, though there are readings every day. 

'Thinking of You' Sheep card above exclusively designed for SWENYs.

SWENY's Lincoln place D2.

A Selection of my Joyce cards available also from my ETSY shop https://www.etsy.com/listing/100906712/james-joyce-ulysses

New cards

New illustrated cards I have been working on....though I have been pressured for some time to produce 'New Baby' cards! So here they are 'Its a Girl' and 'Its a Boy' cupcake cards :)

Hi all! I am working on an illustration project and the theme is dreams, inspired by the unique content of people's dreams. So I am looking for your dreams. If you would like to send one, please send it via message or email. This is purely for visual/artistic purposes and will be treated confidentially. The whacky, weird and wonderful....I look forward to reading them :)

Ok so finally I'm a published illustrator! :) I worked on this book for a charity in Bukino Faso about a year ago and they have finally got the finances together to publish. They are trying to raise money to buy goats....a very different world to ours. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008E95O78

Lizard in acrylic...

St Patrick's Bellshrine rendered in indian ink, from the Treasury collection for The National Museum of Ireland.

Some New illustrated cards I have been working on, inspired by our Irish fauna and the Natural History Museum. The illustrations are rendered in indian ink with colour added. More to come!:)

New work in progress 'Pig & Allium Flowers'

New 'peacock' card

New Card Design...

Portrait series 'Dylan'

I may be looking for faces to illustrate in the near future...this is a recent drawing of a reluctant model