Exhibition In Temple Bar This Friday!

Images Beyond Borders, a new exhibition of illustrations from children’s literature, featuring Irish and Austrian illustrators opens at The No Grants Gallery in Temple Bar this Friday at 7pm, information here.

The exhibition features 8 original pieces of art from The Ravenous Beast and also includes artwork of The Book Eating Monster! It runs until 27th of October.

It was Enchanting...

The Skerries Soundwaves Launch was opened last by the wonderful Robert Dunbar who as Oisín McGann puts it "is arguably the grandaddy of the children’s books community in Ireland." Oisín has a great write up of last night on his blog here. There was lovely guitar music, lots of nibbles and wine and plenty of friends and family there. It was just lovely to have Polly Dunbar along too last night!

The Enchanted Exhibition of Children's book art that features myself, Oisín, Bruce Ingram, Annie West and Adrienne Geoghan and it has travelled Ireland for the past two years. So I was thrilled to be able to bring it to Skerries and host it at Skerries Mills. I can see the windmill from my studio window so it really was a perfect setting. You could see the magical trees that I designed back in 2004 for Barabbas's Mid Summer Nights Dream twinkling away at nights end :)

The Ravenous Beast launches Soundwaves Festival!

It's here and it launches tomorrow- The Skerries Soundwaves Arts and Music Festival. I am so delighted to be bringing The Enchanted Exhibition featuring five Children's Book Illustrator's to Skerries Mills. A venue I can see from my studio window!

The exhibition opens tomorrow night at 8.30 by the wonderful Robert Dunbar and will run until the 25th September. Make sure you pop along to see the original artwork! I have 8 pieces from The Ravenous Beast. Schools will be visiting and some of the authors will also be doing workshops in the local schools during the festival. Hurray!

Baboró Festival

Book festival fever has even infiltrated the Baboró Festival...ravenous beasts, princesses in distress, weird and wonderful creatures, and even runaway dinners feature in Enchanted. This exhibition celebrates picture book art and it opened last Sunday in Galway as part of the Baboró Children's Arts Festival.

Come along to The Galway City Museum all this week to see original picture book art from myself, Annie West, Adrienne Geoghegan, Bruce Ingman and Oisín McGann. Admission is free.

My event 'meet the author' is booked out already at the Museum on Friday.

But come along to Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop this Saturday at 10.30 and 1pm, to read and doodle with me.