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Posted: January 1, 2017

Happy New Year!

2016 was a very good year for me professionally:

My first author/illustrator book “The Star Tree” was published in July and is selling well. I am delighted that it has been nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award for Illustration and shortlisted for the Cambridgeshire Children’s Picture Book Award.

My solo show at Foss Fine Art,London in November was a sell out.

I produced my first Calendar (also sold out) and printed 14 new card designs.

I illustrated for the sublime Elementum Journal and worked on Scratchboard for the first time – a process I absolutely loved and intend to produce more images for prints and cards this year.

It was a privilege to be part of the very last Art in Action in Waterperry Gardens in July.  The atmosphere was, as always, wonderful and it was very special to be amongst so many creative people.

2016 also saw the birth of this lovely new website which has been a joy and a revelation to use.  I am hugely lucky to have the sites bulider and manager Tom Grant of Monrodigital living opposite me – I can semaphore him irritating questions out of my studio window!

In 2017 I am hoping to expand the products in The Mistletoe Tree shop and to have an Online Exhibition. One of my first jobs this year is to enable people to purchase goods via debit and credit cards as well as PayPal as many people seem to prefer to have greater choice in payment methods.

This years solo will be with The Lighthouse Gallery in November.  I’m not sure yet what themes it will follow but the success of the interpretive quality of last years show with Foss is something I am very keen to carry on pursuing.

I am excited about the challenges I’ve set myself for the next few months and hope to keep bringing a little more light and warmth to celebrate our beautiful world which is going through some very dark times.