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An Unexpected Visitor: Behind the Book with Bright Star Jessica Courtney-Tickle

An Unexpected Visitor: Behind the Book with Bright Star Jessica Courtney-Tickle (Agency Interviews, Bright Group, Children’s Books, illustrator)

Jessica Courtney-Tickle is an incredible talent. Her soft and misty landscapes are dream-like and comforting. The perfect, peaceful way to send little ones off to sleep at night. Her debut picture book is due out in February and published by Egmont. The theme is environmentally friendly as is the material from which the book is made; Egmont use paper sourced from sustainable forests, which is the first message you see on opening the book.

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Laura Redburn’s Passengers Collage

Laura Redburn’s Passengers Collage (Editorial Commissions, illustrator, Phosphor Art)

Phosphor Art's Laura Redburn was approached by Wired Magazine to create this mini collage to accompany an article comparing Hollywood film Passengers with British novelist Katie Khan's debut Hold Back the Stars. Laura originally created a piece with her stash of vintage collage materials, but her and the team at Wired decided it needed a more futuristic sci-fi look, resulting in this stunning digital collage of film stars Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence.
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Martyn Pick illustrates for TV series Hellfire

Martyn Pick illustrates for TV series Hellfire (Advertising Campaigns, Artist Partners Ltd, illustrator)

Martyn Pick is a British Director and Animator - he is recognised for his distinctive fusion of live action and animation, and his fluid painterly style of his film making, and so he was the ideal choice to commission him on these digital paintings for Hellfire a TV series being developed at the moment by Andrew Blackall and Paolo Russo.

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Thomas Flintham’s Game Over, Super Rabbit Boy!

Thomas Flintham’s Game Over, Super Rabbit Boy! (Arena Illustration, Children’s Books, illustrator)

It was the computer games of Thomas Flintham’s childhood in the 90’s that inspired him to go on to write a series of stories called Press Start! The first book in the series, Game Over, Super Rabbit Boy! is published this month in the US by Scholastic and will hit the shops in the UK in August. 

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Jonny Duddle’s Cover Illustrations for J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts Library Books

Jonny Duddle’s Cover Illustrations for J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts Library Books (Arena Illustration, Children’s Books, illustrator)

Bloomsbury have released brand-new hardback editions of J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts Library Books with these irresistible new jacket illustrations by Jonny Duddle. Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard are published this month with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them released in March.  (more…)

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