As mentioned previously, I graduated in the summer of 1975 with a First Class Honours Degree in Illustration from Brighton Art College. By the time I left Brighton, I had an agent and was getting some work from a variety of sources—enough to convince me that perhaps I was going to be able to make a career out of my illustration work.
My game plane was to acquire a regular publisher who would enable me to create picture books (one a year would do very nicely, thank you!). An agent to provide me with other sources of commissioned work and a part-time teaching post at a reasonably prestigious art college. That would provide me with a revenue stream to keep the wolf from the door.
How naive I was!
Here’s a few more samples from the years of water-coloured fantasy—scenes from a picture book adaptation of Hansel and Gretel published by Piccolo Books.
