Frances Ann Bremner

 Frances Ann Bremner has just graduated in illustration at Dundee College of Art and created this fun game complete with thumb knights. I think in these posts I am going to call it Dundee College of Art and nothing to do with the university as wishful thinking as currently in Scotland the art colleges of our cities are being systematically attacked by the University's to which they are affiliated through staffing cuts, resource cuts and through charges to the students. The Dundee degree show runs all this week until Sunday 31st at Duncan of Jordanstone

Sunny Tsang

 

Sunny Tsang is a graduating illustrator from Dundee Art Collage with a fabulous portfolio of illustration including her book 'The Wing Things', and some great ceramics. The Dundee degree show runs all this week until Sunday 31st at Duncan of Jordanstone

Lada Chizhova I

 

Is it raining today? I don't know, but I thought I would share Lada Chizhova's silent book The Raindrop, a book about the freedom, inclusion, community, and a strong belief in the good. 

I really wanted to show that not everything grey will remain grey forever, and that not everything grey necessarily has to become colourful, and that not everything is what it seems, because good can be hidden in the most unexpected places. And even a single drop can change an entire sea. One just must not stop believing, one must not stop talking to one another. Lada Chizhova 

Melissa Sweet

 

Goldfinches a poem by Mary Oliver, illustrated by Melissa Sweet in delicate and vibrant mixed media observations and collages. This is a simply beautiful book.

       

Amanda Mijangos VI

 

A daughter looses her mother and finds her grief reflected in a tree, and try's to lift the spirits of the tree, a book of grief and kindness repairing the soul and how nature is a great healer.

“The Braids of My Tree” with Illustrations by Amanda Mijangos text by Bernardo Govea, published 2024 won a honourable mention at this years The Golden Pinwheel awards. 

Sabina Hahn

 

Sabina Hahn's wonderful 'to do lists' sequence.

Susan Davis

 

From sketchbook to print, the work of Susan Davis. 

Laura Carlin XIV

If you can get a copy of 'The Woman Who Turned Children into Birds' by David Almond, illustrated by Laura Carlin,  published 2022 by Walker Books then do, it is so beautiful and life affirming!

'She made her marks.

She whispered her words.

Then she said,

“Go on. Be happy. Up you go."

I wish all children and children pretending to be adults could be free like this...