Karen Scudder IV

 

Inspired by Matt Trevelyan who this easter dressed as a giant curlew to raise awareness of these beautiful birds decline (mainly due to changes in farming practices), Karen Scudder has created a series of wonderful illustrations which I truly hope will be made into a fabulous children's book.

Above and below: Matt Trevelyan and his costume

Sabine Timm-Gnoth VIIII

 

Sabine Timm-Gnoth's beautifully sunny pollen girls. 

Liam Barrett

 

A poster by Liam Barrett from thirteen years ago!!!! Still badgers are being persecuted in Britain by successive governments despite alternative solutions being cheeper and more effective. 

Charlotte Bracho

 

The Sand reckoner by Charlotte Bracho the arrangement of 731 grains of sand, a meditation on the vastness of time it takes to make a grain of sand and the instant in which it disappears.

Marco Mazzoni

 

Pages from Marco Mazzoni's sketchbooks.

Deborah J Stein IV

 

Lions from Deborah J Stein on her recent 100 day project. 

Jan Balet II

 

There is something just wonderful about 1950's books with lions in it. The Lazy Lion by Helen Wing illustrated by Jan B. Balet (1913- 2009) was published in 1953 and it is a beauty. 

Gwen Millward VIIII

 I am off to Wales for a flying visit which gives me the excuse to share Gwen Millward's joyous illustration.

Fluffy Pulcino

 

"I felt all fired up after my visit to Tom Gauld's studio to 'just make art'. That is what I have been trying to do - I have chosen a subject matter; ducks. It seems like a good theme, I like birds and animals. I've painted this one from my memory/ imagination as there weren't any ducks nearby.

When life gets you down just remember the ducks might look like they're gliding on the water but they're probably paddling furiously." 

Fluffy Pulcino

 

Tracy Bush

 

Tracy Bush is an artist who makes books, this one is called 'Dusking' and pays homage to the endangered and extinct moths of Britain in a wonderful porthole concertina book that places the moths in their natural environment and food stuffs. 

Julie Flett

Children’s Book Week May 5-11 and celebrate with a ton of great resources like this free poster by 2025 by Julie Flett.

Rob Dunlavey X

 

My dear friend Rob Dunlavey trying to process the current world with a series of 'angry birds'.

Yoko Tanji

The perfect summer, illustration by Yoko Tanji
 

Don Abel (Abel Rodriguez)

Trees for summer by Abel Rodriguez also known as Don Abel, 1944-2025.

Abel Rodborn Mogaje Guihu in the Putumayo Department of Colombia and trained as a botanical expert amongst the Nonuya, one of several Amazonian ethnic groups. His compositions often depict specific  flora coexisting with birds and animals and elements of the landscape. 

It speaks of the way that trees and plants, the artist’s specialty, intertwine both biologically as well as cosmologically in the understanding of nature and life and how one cannot exist without the other. His work shows the beauty of the world in its un-plundered wonder and joy of diversity.

If you speak Spanish then you will enjoy this documentary.