It is a truth too often unacknowledged, that a populist in possession of the public's rage must be in perpetual want of an enemy.

Some more recent scribbles on the train to London - clouds, pylons, people. #sketchbook #trainsketching

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

How do we fix this mess?

Well Done @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - great to hear him defending the corner on BBCRadio4 The Moral Maze this evening. #bbc #radio4

You'll probably have to blow it up or look at this on a big screen, but here is how anyone can make a little 8 page zine that they can use to write a story, write about their favorite things, a personal experience or make a mini comic. Fold some paper and get your thoughts out there!!

'Female Ghost with Sword' from 'The Complete Works of Chikamatsu' - Uemura Shoen, 1923. #GhostMonth #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

この夏、韮崎にあるシャトレーゼホテルで、フィールドバレエによる野外公演『シンデレラ』が開催されました。この公演のシーゾンに合わせて、僕の絵本（1996年初版）から選ばれたイラストが、ホテル内の客室や会場を彩りました。 古い作品が新たな観客に出会うのは素晴らしいことです。前の作品に新たな観客がみつけた！#シンデレラ #絵本 #バレエ #イラスト #韮崎

This summer, Châteraisé Hotel in Nirasaki #Japan hosted a Field Ballet open-air production of #Cinderella. To accompany the season, illustrations from my PB retelling (published in 1996) were chosen to adorn the rooms and locations in the hotel. A new audience for older work! #kidlitART #KidkitUK

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Simon Tisdall highlights the dangers posed by the proliferation of lower-yield, tactical warheads which supposedly allows “limited” nuclear war. Crossing that red line could lead to an unstoppable chain reaction, with horrific consequences. The campaign against nuclear weapons must get much louder👇

The #TimeForChange is now! Please join me in pledging to take part in the government consultation to #EndHunting @LeagueACS takeaction.league.org.uk/page/172854/...

'No More Hiroshimas' event taking place in Norwich tomorrow. cnduk.org/events/no-mo... #Norwich #hiroshima #CND

Sketch through a train window - near Attleborough, sunset. #sketchbook #norfolk #attleborough #kidlitART

The hidden magnetic chaos within the Whirlpool Galaxy! (Credit: NASA, the SOFIA science team, A. Borlaff; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))

So sad to learn of the passing of Allan Ahlberg, a giant of UK picture books, so many titles to love, especially his collaborations with late wife Janet on Each Pear Plum and others. Beloved indeed. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... #KidlitUK #Kidlit

I've not posted doodles for a while, here's some recent train journey sketches. #kidlitART #sketchbook #kidlitUK #drawing

Dear friends, Sending sunny songs and melody for a refreshing summer! 暑中御見舞い申し上げます。 爽やかな夏に、晴れやかな歌とメロディーをお届けします！ #summer #summer2025 #暑中お見舞い #夏 #summergreetings

I've just been reminded of this broad interview I did for @kathymt.bsky.social 's newsletter 'Writing and Illustrating' some years ago. It's a while ago now, but if you missed it first time around do give it a read! kathytemean.wordpress.com/2015/10/17/i... #kidlit #kidlitUK #kidlitART

Please excuse the proud-parent moment. Just back from London, where daughter graduated from the #LCF (London College of Fashion) #UCL with a First Class BA. Well done there Seren!

Reeling this morning on hearing the sad news that another of my old Tokyo-days friends @djshinkawa.bsky.social has passed away. An immensely talented house/trance DJ at the core of the Tokyo club scene, he will be missed by clubbers and friends alike.

I think what I need most right now is peer support and community. So are there any #kidlitUK people in Shropshire? I've not been living here long and I'd love some familiar faces about to meet for a coffee and a chat! #kidlit #middlegrade

The ECHR is vital - and we're campaigning to save it. Please do sign this petition to get on board with our activities (at European Movement UK). 👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

#scbwi HQ has decided to break up Britsh Isles SCBWI @scbwi-bi.bsky.social‬ into smaller groups, prompting a walk-out by all local volunteers in protest. I'm quite out of the loop regards volunteering, but I hope this can be negotiated and resolved quickly.

Just finished #DeptQ on Netflix. I loved the Danish version, but this was a whole other level. - Top stuff. My one criticism? As a #Taichi student I found the laughable supposed "Taichi" flayling about in the kitchen in Ep.8 total and utter guff. Why is it always the case in film & drama?

It’s #ShowYourStripes day, so here are the climate stripes for Berlin showyourstripes.info/c/europe/ger... that you can also find on a few tram cars here. Show me your stripes with this tool from @edhawkins.org showyourstripes.info

#Jarrolds Dept store in #Norwich is closing it's #Bookshop. I don't believe it, books have been a core part of the Store since they started as a printer/publisher. Very fond memories of my booklaunches and signings there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The books we love when we're young are the ones that make us readers. They shape us at the deepest levels, and they stay with us forever. So whatever else you do - please never stop reading books with kids, and encouraging them to read. Please never stop changing lives! #literacy

See a fox, post a fox. An old exhibition favourite from Tokyo days, the roots were sketched from trees standing in the park of Teien Art Museum in Shiroganedai, which my old studio at the time overlooked. #KiditUK #KIdlitArt #childrensbooks #illustration #Tokyo

I'm not good at social media🙃. Haven't posted here in 5 months😑. So now... I'm gonna scan with some pics from my 2025 calendar (so far!)😅. Here is January😁 #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration

日本の劇団GMBHが今年8月に東京で上演しますシェイクスピアの『マクベス』のポスター／チラシ。イラスト+タイトルのカリグラフィーとを描きましたAD: 市川きよあき事務所 #東京 #演劇 #お芝居 #マクベス #ポスター #イラスト

A poster/flyer for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, a production to be staged by Japanese theatre company GMBH in Tokyo this August. I drew the #calligraphy for the title as well as the #illustration. AD: Ichikawa Kiyoaki Design #Tokyo #theatre #Macbeth #poster #Shakespeare

If you see this, post a flower 🌼 A spread from 'Zipper-kun to Chaku no Maho' (ジッパーくんとチャックの魔法), Rironsha, Tokyo. #kidlitART #kidlitUK #picturebook #Japan

For #SaturdaySwans 🦢here's a little illustration I drew for the Girl Guides Annual a few years ago. #kidlitART #kidlitUK #illustration

Re-the benefits of Tai-Chi, if you're in #Norwich (UK) and would like to join in our entry class in the Plantation Gardens, let me know. I don't think my tutor is on Bluesky but can put you in touch. #Taichi #Tai-chi #Qgong

Blimey, #Springwatch, Golden Eagle chicks kill their siblings? Surely not in all nests? #BBCSpringwatch #Springwatch2025

People of Norfolk, support a new law for fairer supply chains! ✊Show your support for holding UK companies to account for exploitation in their supply chains by signing our petition #PlanetOverProfit ✍️ actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

Oh no!!! This is deeply saddening, an enormous loss to arts broadcasting.

Watching a May 1976 episode of #TOTP on 4, oh dear, dear, dear, no wonder a punk revolution was about to blow all this away.

It's got to the stage every time someone from the Israeli government appears on #BBC #Radio4 News programmes to justify Netanyahu's campaign of genocide my hand reaches for the volume-off switch. I don't want to hear any more of their aggressive shouty bull***t.

Here's another even older #bookcover, right from the beginning of my illustration career in London, 'Barrister By and Large', the memoir of Charlotte Buckhaven, for Pan Macmillan. #bookjacket #publishing #kidlitART #kidlitUK

Embrace joy when you encounter it. #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

Some older #bookcover frivolity from the archive - jacket illustration for the Japanese edition of James Blaycock's 'The Magic Spectacles' (魔法の眼鏡) Hayakawa Shobo. #illustration #kidlitART #kidlitUK

It keeps on coming …

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