Some eight years after leaving Brighton Art College, my wife and i had moved into our first home. A modest new build occupying a corner of an estate with a primary school nearby and a shared parking complex in front of the modest patch of grass which fronted our semi-detached house. I was still dwelling in the lands of make-believe, creating watercolour scenes exclusively for publishing.
With a mortgage to pay, plus the usual overheads, it was evident that we might be stuck in our modest domicile for ever, unless I broadened the scope of my output.
So, having said all I wanted to say about the world of enchanted castles, faeries and goblins, I set about planing a new portfolio.
Here are some of my swan-song images from those now distant days, including many illustrations from the Oxford University Press edition of ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’.
