Boat International Say Goodbye to Eddie Jordan

Phosphor's Dave Hopkins brought Eddie Jordan's Lippy from the Liffey column in Boat International to life with his signature pen and ink style for 12 years. When Eddie Jordan passed away this spring, Boat International got in touch with Phosphor for one last illustration. Sadly, Dave Hopkins has also now passed away but Jon Rogers, Phosphor's Pastiche illustrator, stepped up to the plate, and illustrated a final farewell to Eddie.

Read Eddie Jordan's obituary here.

Find more pastiche illustrations at phosphorart.com and contact Trina at Phosphor if you'd like to discuss commissioning Jon Rogers for your next project.

Mark Long – New work

Sharing some nice new work from Mark Longs' archive, including work for Knack Magazine, Personal Magazine, Senet Magazine and The Economist.

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50th anniversary edition for Virago Press, illustrated by Eleanor Rose

Beautiful cover by Eleanor Rose for the 50th anniversary edition of the first book ever published by Virago Press. We adore the colours and textures of this Lino illustration. Eleanor is able to capture a real sense of place, atmosphere and feeling.

‘Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day it was written, FENWOMEN is a vital portrait of rural women’s lives – not only as they were lived in the 1970s in one Cambridgeshire village, but in the generations before it, all over the country, and reaching forward into today’s world, too’ Melissa Harrison

Eleanor Rose is represented by The Artworks

Lucy Rose illustrates the Easter edition of the Radio Times

Celebrating Easter with this colourful and joyful cover illustration by Lucy Rose. Lucy also illustrated the inside page borders too, which are equally beautiful and really bring the pages to life.

Lucy Rose is represented by The Artworks

Cardin’s Friends: an evening where fashion met art in the heart of Paris.

Pierre Cardin April Afterwork was a celebration of creativity hosted at the maison’s flagship store in Paris. The evening explored the intersection of fashion and art, with live illustration by our artist Jessie Kanelos Weiner adding an intimate, expressive layer to the experience.

2001 A Space Odyssey – Mutant – Deb JJ Lee

Deb JJ Lee was commissioned by Mutant to create an officially licensed poster of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey. This is the second time Deb has created a poster for Mutant after their take on DUNE.

More of Deb’s work can be viewed here https://www.debutart.com/artist/deb-jj-lee?tags=all

Cover for Volkskrant Magazine – DPG Media – Lisa Sheehan

Lisa was commissioned by Jaap Biemans and DPG Media to create a cover illustration for a feature about Botox.

Lisa created a striking and unusual cover illustration. Four details from the illustration were used inside the magazine. The cover feature was about skin beautification via use of injectables and how, while users age, they aim for folk not to see the ageing. Lisa also created a slight motion variant of the cover illustration for online use. This can be viewed at https://www.debutart.com/artist/lisa-sheehan/botox-cover-feature-volkskrant-magazine

More of Lisa’s work can be viewed here https://www.debutart.com/artist/lisa-sheehan?tags=all

Dragan Kordić for Ferment Magazine

Ferment Magazine just got a taste of summer sunshine, courtesy of Dragan Kordić’s sun-soaked illustrations for Beer 52’s latest issue.

This collaboration, a perfect cocktail of creativity, showcases Dragan’s style perfectly.

To see more from Dragan, click here: https://thebrightagency.com/uk/licensing/artists/dragan-kordic

David Roberts

We are all terribly excited at the prospect of the next book written and illustrated by the wonderfully talented David Roberts...it is soon to be published next month - we can’t wait.

"We Are Your Children" published by Two Hoots and beautifully written and  illustrated by David Roberts is an accessible account of LGBTQ+

A passion project that has taken David  several years to realise, but its definitely been  well worth waiting for.

For more of David’s beautiful work please go to the Artist Partners website and to David’s portfolio. David Roberts | Illustrator | Artist Partners

Aleksandra Szmidt

Having shown our portfolios at the recent book fairs, Aleksandra’s work was a great hit.

Living in New Zealand and working pretty much for most publishers in Australia and New Zealand - I am privileged in representing and  promoting her work here in the UK and Europe within the Artist Partners agency.

This cute little image of her’s created a nice buzz about her work and lots of interest from various publishers.

Aleksandra's work is hugely versatile, and she has  a number of her own working  styles to  choose from -  Recently having finished working on a book : The unicorn Did it - published by Five Mile Publishing written by R.M. McGurk  which is  actually due to be published in June this year - which is a  follow up  book to her previously   successful picture book The Dinosaur Did It …. Written by R.M. McGurk and illustrated by Aleksandra, again published by Five Mile Publishing.

For more of her work please do check her folio out on our website: Aleksandra Szmidt - Artist Partners