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Christopher Gibbs illustrated Agatha Christie titles for the BBC Radio Collection

I spent many months ensconced at Lord Emsworth’s stately seat, producing the cover artwork for the humourous tales penned by P G Wodehouse about the goings-on at Blandings Castle.

26th, October, 2012

Faranak: Portfolio

Faranak is a traditional artist who provides her clients with hand drawn sketches and uses a combination of acrylic paints and paper stencils to create her illustrations

You may know Simon Bartram because he created Bob, the Man on the Moon, but when we first met Simon back in 1996 he was producing very different work

26th, October, 2011

Brian Sweet: Portfolio

26th, October, 2011

Tony Roberts: Portfolio

Tony Roberts was born in Worcestershire in 1950 and he studied Fine Art (painting) at Ravensbourne College of Art. After leaving college in 1972 and until the mid 1980s, Tony was commissioned by major UK and US publishers to illustrate science fiction book jackets. During this period he exhibited worldwide and was approached to work was [...]

29th, September, 2011

My Dream Job: P G Wodehouse covers

In 1998 we had a call from the art director at Penguin Books asking whether David Hitch would like to do a few presentation samples of Jeeves and Wooster

19th, August, 2011

Mark Robertson: Watercolours

Mark Robertson has created some wonderful watercolours over the years. Here is a selection of some of his best pieces

16th, August, 2011

My Dream Job

Mervyn Peake and The Gormanghast books have been a huge influence in Mark Robertson’s life and he was honoured to have the chance to realise his dream

The British Library’s Out of this World exhibition has been a huge success and we were pleased to take part