Cloth Road Arts Week, 3rd - 11th May 2008

South West Illustrator Jan Nesbitt will be exhibiting as part of the

Cloth Road Art Week.

Running between Saturday 3rd May and Sunday 11th May 2008 the Art trail will showcase some 80 artists and makers at 34 different venues, many in their own studios around the West Wiltshire area.

You can download the PDF version of the colour brochure with full details of all locations here. (See location number 16 for Jan's work.)

For more information visit the Cloth Road Artists website.
To see more of Jan's wonderful artwork, visit her website here.

Babette Cole - SCBWI Conference at Bologna Book Fair

South West illustrators member Babette Cole gave a wonderful talk at the SCBWI conference in Bologna.
'Every Picture tells a Story' started with very funny anecdotes about her life and work with slides of illustrations from of her books and some wonderful (rarely seen) paintings of the West Indies. She followed this with a serious plea for us all to do all we can to improve the sorry standard of literacy amongst some of our children and young adults and rounded off with a hilarious description of the series of the extraordinarily different pony stories that she is currently writing for Bloomsbury.

Suzy-Jane Tanner 2008

Illustrator John Shelley was also speaking at the conference and has a more detailed report with photo's on his blog here.

Celestine, Drama Queen

"Celestine is a VERY special little duck. (It's true - she'll tell you so herself!) And now, at last, the day has come for her to shine..."

A wonderful new Picture Book by Penny Ives.

Celestine, Drama Queen

ISBN 978-1-84011-506-2

Templar Publishing

Picture This @ JOG

As part of the inauguration of their new art gallery, The John of Gaunt school have invited South West Illustrators to recreate part of their exhibition SWILL & FRIENDS, first shown as part of the Bath Festival of Children's Literature in September 2007.

Please contact the school for opening times:
John of Gaunt School
Wingfield Road
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 9EH
UK
(01225) 762637

Kate's Weathervane

Kate Burgess (also known as South West Illustrator 'Kate Davies') has her artwork in high places!

Click the image to see a larger version.