Exhibition At The Ark!

Explore the curious and creative world of books at the fantastic Picture Book Exhibition, it's 

on at The Ark for the month of April called Telling Tale and Tiny Tales.  

There's some fantastic Picture Book illustrations there including Marie Louise Fitzpatrick, Oliver Jeffers and myself. 

You can see behind the scenes of what goes into making a picture book including rough doodles, original concept artwork and a teeny tiny dummy book from The Ravenous Beast. It is open every weekend! For booking contact The Ark on 6707788.

 Original art from The Ravenous Beast

  Original art from The Ravenous Beast

original concept and doodles 

Mini dummy and roughs...

Eve Mc Quillan enjoys the show...

A day in the life of Book Festival...

My Poster Design

Megan and The Book Eating Beast

Niamh Sharkey, Norton Virgien, Lisa O Connor and Megan Mc Mahon

Artwork from The Ravenous Beast

Austrian Illustrators Book Work

Oscar

Laureate NaÓg Siobhan Parkinson

Hey guys! Time to catch up and tell you abut all the amazing things happening for Children's Book Festival! Last Friday was the opening of Images Beyond Borders an exhibition of Irish and Austrian Picture Book Illustrators. It was launched last Friday by our wonderful Laureate na nÓg Siobhán Parkinson and Karin Fichtinger-Grohe, Deputy Minister at the Austrian Embassy, at The No Grants Gallery in Temple Bar. I have to say I am so proud to be included in this exhibition. It is right in the heart of Temple Bar and really raises the bar :) It runs for the month of October so make sure to pop in! although they do close for lunch!

Tomorrow I'll post up photos of my Book Festival Library visits, Doodle Mania and how I met the infamous Don Conroy in Skerries!

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.

The Ravenous Beast at The Garter Lane Gallery!

My exhibition officially opened yesterday at The Garter Lane Gallery as part of the SprOg Children's Festival.

Alas, I was foiled by a dribbling monster when I tried to escape on time! The monster heard that marshmallows and Jammie Dodgers were to be served instead of the usual wine and cheese. And he would not let me GO!

In case you get a chance to drop out of the sky and go along, the show runs until 28th August at Garter Lane Gallery, in Waterford.

I have eight pieces of original art from The Ravenous Beast.

Annie West, Adrienne Geoghegan, Bruce Ingman, and Oisín McGann are in the exhibition too.

Save me a Jammie Dodger if you go along!

This Week!

My exhibition opens on Thursday in The Illustration Cupboard! You are all welcome to swing by to see the art at Bury Street. I will be there with Max Eilenberg on Saturday afternoon for a family reading and book signing.

Sendak on Sendak

Sendak on Sendak, A retrospective of the work of author and artist Maurice Sendak!

The exhibition explores Sendak’s prolific imagination through the characters, influences, and settings of his books, as well as Sendak’s quest to illustrate what he calls “the Other Story,” the hidden meanings of a text that haunt and enrich his illustrations.

Where? The Rosenbach Museum & Library from May 6, 2008 to May 3, 2009, with new works on view every four months.
A total of over 300 original watercolors, pen-and-ink sketches, doodles, manuscripts, books, and dummy books from the 1950s to today will be on display. Visitors can access new interviews with Sendak through digital touchscreens throughout the galleries. Now I know I have to get to see this I have until May 2009 to get there! Philadelphia here I come... wonder can you still get those Arts Flights from the Art Council?

Invitations!

My invitations arrived this morning for my show in October in The Illustration Cupboard!