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Linocut book cover illustration – The Villa Rouge

I did a linocut illustration for the cover of a new book last year: The Villa Rouge, by Maggie Ross. Illustrating book covers is my favourite kind of commission and I have done quite a few now. Of all the linocuts I have made this was the most complex, in terms of the number of […]

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New linocut illustration – Lighthouse and clouds

This is the new linocut illustration I’m working on for French clothing company Aigle. They wanted an illustration in the same style as my book cover for Faber and Faber, but with a lighthouse and a stag. This one will go on the inside cover of the lookbooks for their winter 2013 collection. As with […]

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Vertigo book out now!

My linocut book cover design for Vertigo is out now! It is a part of the BFI Film Classics series. Twenty artists and designers were asked to come up with new covers and I was asked to do this Hitchcock classic. You can see how I made the linocut for this design, and the illustration […]

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Coming soon – Vertigo book

I did a linocut illustration for a book cover for the BFI recently which is out next month. Here is the first image of the finished book. Very exciting! There are several more books in the BFI Film Classics series, all with new covers by invited artists and illustrators. Read more about them on the […]

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Hitchcock’s Vertigo – linocut book cover illustration for BFI

I’ve just finished a book cover design of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo for the BFI (British Film Institute). It is part of a series of books on 100 classic films which they are re-publishing this year with new covers by invited artists. Vertigo book cover – detail I had never seen Vertigo, and the only other […]

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C S Forester book cover designs

The three C S Forester books I did cover illustrations for a few months ago (for Penguin) are finally out today. The Pursued is a recently discovered thriller written in 1935 which is being published for the first time (in hardback). Two other C S Forester books are being re-released at the same time: Payment […]

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Icon Magazine Cover Illustration

I was commissioned last week to create a linocut to illustrate the cover of the April issue of Icon magazine, a publication about architecture and design. The brief was to make an image of the Absolute Towers, designed by Ma Yansong of MAD architects and currently being built in Toronto. The towers currently look something […]

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Gandhi Autobiography out now!

M. K. Gandhi – An autobiography The book cover I illustrated for the Folio Society is out at last! I made the portrait of Gandhi using linocut to create two layers which were scanned and then blocked onto the canvas of the book. The designer Sheri Gee took a detail from the image to use […]

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Gandhi Book Cover Illustration

This is an illustration of Gandhi I did recently for The Folio Society. I wanted to convey some of the complexity of Gandhi’s character while still giving the feeling of lightness. I used linocut to make this layer first, and a second, colour layer was created afterwards to go behind. The illustration will go on […]

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Gandhi portrait for The Folio Society

This is an illustration I did recently for Gandhi’s autobiography, to be published later this year by the Folio Society. It is of course a linocut. You can see the preparatory stages in cutting the lino below. The final illustration for the book cover will be two-colour and in the classic Folio Society look with […]

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