I’m delighted to announce that my first picture book, and my first collaboration with Jackie French have both been given a shiny notable sticker by the industry’s premier body, the CBCA.
While the last you thing any one should ever illustrate for, it’s recognition, it’s still a lovely feeling to know that someone else other than me saw something in Eric’s story, something unique and special, worth sharing with the wider world.
If a pencil could talk, what would it say to you? Nothing, I suspect, if you don’t use it.
Are there any set of words that one human can say to another that have a more profound effect than these?
Social media is a siren’s song – of scale, of connection, of ‘monetisation’, of a valuable way to spend time. Might there be a better way?
No one expects me to run a marathon if I can’t even run 5km but when it comes to art, do we also need to build muscle?
Should picture book making feel like work? Or should it feel like some utopia where someone pays me for ‘art’?
