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Back DREAM BIG! Abby Harrison & Sarah J.Coleman Through lockdowns and beyond, these seven little pen-and-ink characters lived on my desk for nine months of 2020, and take you though Abby 'The Astronaut' Harrison's process of breaking that big, blob-like 'dream' that you have into small, achievable steps, 'til one day...you're THERE. "From Astronaut Abby, the dynamic founder of The Mars Generation, comes a book about dreaming big, reaching for the stars, and making a plan for success! From the age of four, Abigail Harrison knew she wanted to go to space. At age eleven, she sat down and wrote out a plan - not just for how to become an astronaut, but how to be the first astronaut to set foot on Mars. With a degree in biology, internships at NASA, and a national organization founded to help kids reach for the stars themselves, Astronaut Abby is well on her way to achieving her dreams-and she wants to help others do the same!" ​ Published by Philomel Books , part of Penguin Kids, February 2021, ages 11 and up. Buy a copy here if you're in the US, and here if you're in the UK.

Poetry Books Back Write me a picture and I'll paint you a story...

A non-exhaustive list of my clients to date, for those who have an interest! Publishing clients are at the bottom of the page. ADVERTISING Abelson Taylor Adam & Eve Addison Advertex Communications AMV BBDO Antidote Mother Arc USA Arne New York Atomic London ATTIK Bartle Bogle Hegarty BBDO Worldwide Cadbury’s Campbell Ewald Carrefour Cementbloc CHI & Partners DDB Doberman Draft FCB Droga5 Fabrik Fast Horse Euro RSCG Harrison & Star Havas Worldwide Hudson Rouge HZDG R/GA RKCR/ Y&R FCB McCann Erickson Nitro TBWA\London TBWA\Manchester Mother Ogilvy One Marketing Grey Worldwide Prodigious Proximity London Publicis Grupo Gallegos Grey Worldwide Irish International Isobel Ketchum Fox Kalomaski Crossing Fresh Inc. Fuel Marketing Landor Associates Leo Burnett NY Leo Burnett London Leo Burnett France Lowe Worldwide Miles Partnership Sudler & Hennessy Saatchi & Saatchi NY Spot NYC VMLYR WCRS Wunderman WWAV Rapp Collins .............................................. EDITORIAL ​ Bay Area News Group, CA Big Issue EMAP Future Publishing The Observer New York Times Decanter Magazine LA Times Radio Times Rachael Ray Magazine Sight & Sound Magazine Woman’s Health Immediate Media You Magazine The Guardian Stylist Magazine Sunday Telegraph Sunday Times Magazine Kiplinger’s Magazine Glamour Magazine Papperlappap Sight & Sound Magazine The Telegraph The Times TV Times Time Out London Time Out New York Nature Magazine New Scientist Wall Street Journal Wardour Communications Washington Post Woman’s Health Playboy Rachael Ray Magazine Vogue UK .............................................. MUSEUM & HISTORICAL Seven Stories (The National Centre for Children's Books) National Trust National Trust for Scotland Natural History Museum Royal Shakespeare Company King Richard III Visitor Centre Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Robert Burns Museum, Alloway Royal Horticultural Society .............................................. FINANCIAL Natwest Bank PNC Bank London Stock Exchange Ernst & Young .............................................. DESIGN Briggs Hillier Saatchi & Saatchi NY The Bridge Design Bridge Seven Stories Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Silk Pearce Story Studio MB Studio LR Parker Williams Newenglish Parker Williams Taxi Studio Point Five Design Zip Design Ratcliffe Fowler Premm Design The Nest .............................................. AUTOMOTIVE ​ Renault F1 Peugeot Lincoln Motor Company Scion .............................................. RETAIL Asda Booths Supermarkets Carrefour Co-op UK Target Macy's Sainsbury's Waitrose Lidl Aldi Marks & Spencer Tesco Morrison's ------------------------------------- PHARMACEUTICAL Avant HC NKD Health Saatchi Wellness McCann Health Philanthropy Campbell Ewald Digitas Health Klick Health Inventiv Health NEON NYC Droga5 Hogarth Worldwide .............................................. OTHER THINGS Southern Poverty Law Centre Twisted Tree Games The State of Maine Royal Mail Royal Mile Whiskies .............................................. BRANDS ​ Apple Avon Adobe BareMinerals BIC Global BP Cadbury’s Cocoa Amore Coca-Cola Crabtree & Evelyn Crayola Chipotle Diamine Inks Founders Beers Glastonbury Festival Jet2 Airlines Kelloggs Kiehl's Starbucks Nestlé McDonalds Peter Graham Wines Tiffany DeBeers Unilever United Airlines .............................................. MUSIC & PERFORMANCE ​ Andrea Gibson B.Dolan Buddy Wakefield Sage Francis Katie Wirsing Rodin/2econd Class Citizen Superstar Quamallah Epitaph Records Strange Famous Records Sony .............................................. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Boston University New York University Johns Hopkins University .............................................. FILM & TELEVISION Directors - Aitch Alberto - Ken Loach - Julian Jarrold - Buddy Wakefield BBC Big Swing Productions/Limelight Channel 4 Creative Partnership VH1 .............................................. Book Publishing Clients Book Publishing Algonquin Books Andersen Press Angry Robot Books Astra Books Bloomsbury Publishing Candlewick Press Canongate Books Catkins Creek Chicken House Clarion Books Crown Publishing Del Rey Disney-Hyperion Doubleday Ebury Publishing Egmont Publishing Faber & Faber Farrar, Strauss & Giroux Folio Society Grand Central Publishing Hachette Harlequin Books Harpercollins Hinkler Books Australia Holiday House Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Isis Publishing Little, Brown Little Island Books Laurence King Macmillan Publishing Mills & Boon Orion Books Pan Macmillan Penguin Books Penguin RandomHouse Picador Publicis Puffin Books Quarto Publishing Random House Scholastic Simon & Schuster Skyhorse Publishing Soho Press St. Martin’s Press Sourcebooks Summersdale Publishing Templar Publishing Tor Books Transworld Usborne Walker Books

Novels Back Books for grown-ups, mostly fiction. This is not all of them, but I know you won't want to be still scrolling at tea time. All are published unless otherwise stated, and if you'd like to see any of them in greater detail, just ask.

Walls, Murals & Customisation Public murals, shop window installations; painting live for TV ads, pub fronts, corporate logos designed and applied, from a few feet to hundreds of square metres - and painting on things.

Back Young Adult Books I've illustrated a lot of books for young adult readers, and it's one of my favourites genres to work on.

Process Watch how it's made! Time-lapses, stop-motion and films showing how the work is made - whether analogue or digital, alone or with helpers. I offer documentation of the creation process for clients as part of the job - ask if this is something you're interested in. There are many more of these little films on my Vimeo channel.

Non-fiction Back

Audiobooks Back I've illustrated a lot of covers specifically for audio books. This is just a few of them, mostly for Isis Publishing.

Biographies Back

Health, Wellness & Pharmaceutical Work I've worked with clients in the worlds of health and wellness for more than 20 years, and love a scientific and medical challenge. For legal and contractual reasons this page shows only a * tiny percentage * of my pharmaceutical work to date, so if you want to see more, get in touch.

Before writing me an email, you might find what you’re looking for here. Here are the things I currently get asked the most - feel free to email if you still have a burning question! Can you sign this book for me? Of course. Order a copy to be sent to me (or send me the one you have) and let me have an address to send it back to. Email to ask! Can I buy a print of…? Yes indeed. If it’s not already in the shop, email me about making one for you. Internships & Assistants I’ve greatly enjoyed and benefitted from the help of assistants since the early 2000s. This is Graham , on the left, who was with us for the longest, and still helps out now - including with this website! Sometimes we have periods without one (‘we’ is myself and partner Leigh), sometimes we have more than one - three part-timers was our record - and I have an accounts lady too who works one day a week. We’re not currently looking for an intern or assistant, but this doesn’t mean we won’t be at some point in the future. Will you do my tattoo/wedding invite/portrait of…? I’ve done a gazillion personal projects and there’ll be a gazillion more. But I do have to have 'Mole's Hierarchy of Needs' met: ​ - do I like the project opportunity? - do I have the time? - OK I might have the time - but do I have the motivation? (honestly?) - will the project reward me either in terms of personal satisfaction, payment or knowing I’ve helped a chum? - if they can’t pay, can this person do something for me in return, maybe? - will it make a total stranger really really happy? - are they asking me to draw a beloved animal? That’s a stone cold nope. - are they asking for something that’s well within my wheelhouse? - or maybe this might be a chance to do something a bit challenging in the safety of an ‘off-client’ situation. If I can, and I want to, and I like the project, I will - so do email! Portfolio Advice & Consulting I’ve spent a lot of time over the years helping other people with their work in both workshop and formal educational settings. I love doing talks and seminars when I can, and individual folio sessions by Zoom can be arranged. Help with college/university/school projects Always happy to help. - If you write to me about your work, myself (or my partner) will be happy to give you some folio feedback , - I'll always gladly answer questionnaires and do interviews , too. But the timing of this will be determined by workload i.e.: we know your project is urgent, but to quote a friend of ours, "your failure to plan is not my emergency!" - so don't send it last minute! And DO send us the finished project - you'd be amazed how many people don't bother to do this, and it's a professional and well-mannered way to acknowledge our input. Do you have a Skillshare or any online tutorials? From a very young age I was heavily involved in education and lettering workshops while juggling an illustration career. I’m currently focussing on developing the direction of my own work for the next 20 years, so I don’t have much mental space to offer ‘how-tos’. I do, however, record a lot of process videos and time-lapses which you can see on my Motion page, and my recent Adobe Live series may be of interest! Do you do colouring books? We did ours in 2003! And I’ve never had the urge to make one since - as much as I adore working in black ink, I love colour, and I like making the whole illustration, not just the outlines. As far as we know we were the first people to create a modern illustration colouring-in book, albeit a slightly subversive one that was also a puzzle book. It was provided with a set of crayons, and more than a touch of darkness. It wasn’t cute, but it was full of murky humour. I still have a copy or two, and I’m going to blog it one of these days. I’ve got no desire to do another one (plenty of people are really good at them - I love Millie Marotta 's colouring books) but I have been asked four times by publishers now! I don’t see any awards or gongs on your website, why’s that? * Small Blog Alert.* I do have some, but they’re not on the site as I honestly don’t think they’re that important, or would influence whether a client thinks I’m suitable for a job. Despite many fun hours being a competition judge, I made the decision to stop entering them a few years ago, having realised that I’d started to question the motives behind both running and entering them. Some people love entering competitions, but I’ve narrowed it down to one illustration competition I’m happy to enter now, which is the V&A Illustration Awards , run by one the UK’s oldest institutions, and my policy is only to enter something when I feel would sit well in the setting of the organisation, and alongside company that that competition attracts. The process of surveying a year's work and identifying something to fit the brief is a useful and contemplative exercise, whether I win anything or not! I wrote a full article about this here ​