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Vintage Collectors Classics: Great Expectations

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The World of the Romantics

My third jigsaw for Laurence King. This intricately detailed jigsaw puzzle features famous poets, writers, artists, activists, musicians and scientists from the Romantic movement, including the Shelleys, Lord Byron, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Beethoven, Turner and more.

Written by Matthew Ward.

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Seaweed

Watercolour studies of seaweed and coral

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In the Rhododendrons cover design

Cover design and illustration for In The Rhododendrons by Heather Christle. Published by Hachette.

For readers of Also a Poet, Orwell’s Roses, and My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers—as well as the legions of Virginia Woolf fanatics—the acclaimed poet and author of The Crying Book crafts a deeply moving, immersive, and lyrical hybrid memoir about her mother, Woolf, and the transformative power of writing.

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Vintage Collectors Classics: Northanger Abbey

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Virginia Woolf

 Portrait of Virginia Woolf

Portrait of Virginia Woolf

VOX

Illustrations for a series published on VOX: ‘Eating the Ocean’

This reported series delves into the ecological, ethical, and cultural dimensions of seafood — one of the fastest growing, least understood food sectors in the world — with a particular focus on fish farming.

Art Direction by Paige Vickers

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Poetry Foundation

Illustration to accompany an essay: Flowers of Drivel for The Poetry Foundation.

Clare Bucknell’s The Treasuries examines how poetry anthologies have shaped national identity—and preserved some poems better left forgotten.

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NYT book review

Portrait of Doris Lessing

Vintage Collectors Classics: 1984

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The World of the Romantics

Characters for the World of the Romantics Jigsaw - a 1000 piece puzzle published by Laurence King. This intricately detailed jigsaw puzzle features famous poets, writers, artists, activists, musicians and scientists from the Romantic movement, including the Shelleys, Lord Byron, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Beethoven, Turner and more.

Lichen

Painted in acryla gouache on Saunders Waterford.

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Cloudberries jigsaws

East Biological: Flower Songs screen print
East Biological: Flower Songs screen print
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Pink portrait

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Tile Paintings

An ongoing series of tile designs exploring simple motifs inspired by an imaginary ornamental garden. Painted in acryla gouache on Arches paper.

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New York Times Book Review

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New York Times

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The World of the Brontes

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The World of the Brontes

The World of the Brontës jigsaw puzzle for Laurence King Publishing.

Enter the world of the Brontës with this 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. Travel across the blustery Yorkshire moors and into the dark, gloomy schoolrooms and weathered stone buildings of nineteenth-century England to spot Cathy and Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights, Jane and Mr Rochester getting married, and a host of other fictional and real-life characters while you build the puzzle. Includes a fold-out poster with text by Amber Adams that highlights characters, locations and key moments.

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NYT Book Review

New York Times Book Review: The Secret Guests

New Yorker: Rona Jaffe

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Penguin Random House

Illustrated cover and text for Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

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Penguin Random House

Stanford Business

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Stanford Business/Pentagram

100 Things to do in a Forest

In an age when people are in search of new and more fulfilling experiences to replace screens and bring families together, this book explores 100 ways to connect with nature and discover the benefits of forest fun. From bushcraft activities like whittling and firelighting to spiritual pursuits like forest bathing and meditation, forest educator Jennifer Davis has brought together activities for people of all ages, helping them to connect with their forests and woodlands, while discovering the healing and restorative benefits of a life lived outdoors.

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Penguin

The Last Man cover design.

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New Yorker

Claire-Louise Bennett’s Women Without a Story

In “Checkout 19,” the author once again wages war against narrative, filtering experience through thoughts, textures, and the dark core of the self.

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The World of Virginia Woolf

The World of Virginia Woolf jigsaw puzzle for Laurence King Publishing.

From the beaches of Cornwall to the streets of Bloomsbury and from Hogarth House to the colleges of Cambridge, spot Leonard Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell and Vita Sackville-West, along with Clarissa Dalloway, Orlando and the Ramsay family. Plus, discover the places that formed Woolf's character and inspired her pioneering books that helped shape our understanding of modernity.

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NYT sunday review

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New York Times Book Review

An illustration to accompany a book review of A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips.

A novel about the life of the writer Jean Rhys.

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Caves comic

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NYT Book Review

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Oneworld Publications

Cover illustration for Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

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Plant Pattern

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Corfu Staircase

Corfu Concrete

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New Yorker

Portrait of Barbara Pym

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Portrait of Shirley Hazzard for the cover of the NYT Book Review

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NYT Book Review

Portrait of Shirley Hazzard for the cover of the NYT Book Review

Parade

Stone Arch Pattern

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Secrets of the sea

Secrets of the Sea by Kate Baker with illustrations by Eleanor Taylor, 2016

A stunning look at some of the most extraordinary and rarely seen creatures from under the sea 
This book takes you on a journey to discover an incredible and rarely seen world. From the rock pools along the shoreline to the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean, breathtaking illustrations reveal the sea's creatures--from the microscopic and the bizarre to the fragile and the deadly--in all their startling beauty. Welcome to the secrets of the sea.

 Buy the book here

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Swans

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Village

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All Good Things

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A Year in Nature

A Year in Nature by Heather Maskell with Illustrations by Eleanor Taylor, 2018

A Year in Nature is a beautiful, unique introduction to the seasons. The book opens out into a stunning four-part carousel, revealing intricately detailed pop-up scenes of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Follow a family of foxes as the tiny cubs grow up through the year, and explore the woodland scenes to discover animals, trees, plants and flowers.

The woodland is vividly brought to life by Eleanor Taylor’s rich, distinctive illustrations.

Buy the book here

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Nectaran Tea

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Penguin: Age of Iron

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 Portrait of Virginia Woolf
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VOX
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Poetry Foundation
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Vintage Collectors Classics: 1984
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Lichen
East Biological: Flower Songs screen print
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New Yorker: Rona Jaffe
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New Yorker
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NYT sunday review
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New York Times Book Review
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subtitle magazine
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NYT Book Review
Oneworld Publications
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Plant Pattern
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New Yorker
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Parade
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