Not sure there's any local people here on 🦋? But i'm opening up the studio a couple of times before the end of the year... illustrationbyjonathan.co.uk/2025/10/wint...

Important cake commission for child 2 😆🎂

Calendars finally arrived! 🎉

Saturday Cocktails 🍸

Travel Series Challenge No. 10 🖼 🎨 🌍 www.illustrationbyjonathan.co.uk/challenge #art #illustration #painting #travel

Palette cleaning day… was probably overdue 😬😆🎨

Lovely stomp around @nationaltrust.org.uk Petworth today. Lots of geese passing through in formation. Kids even allowed us a quick peek inside the house 😊 #Petworth #NationalTrust

Happy Bookshop Day @pgwells.bsky.social! 🥳📕📚📕📘📙📗📖📚📓 www.pgwells.co.uk #booksky #bookshop #winchester

Shroom spotting in Micheldever Woods this afternoon. Autumn delights 🍄‍🟫🍂🍁

Added some lighting up the garden path… preparation for the darker evenings and a couple of open studio days in Nov and Dec.

Mountains 🎨🏔️ #art #illustration #painting

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If you're into the 1920s/30s and art depicting common people's lives and night scenes of New York, you'll love the art Martin Lewis (1881 – 1962) made. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_... Here's a small selection of his work;

This week's fab featured artists are On On Lao, @alt-aesthetics.bsky.social and Sarah Lane ❤️ Portfolios: On On - hireillo.com/cZW Alternative Aesthetics - hireillo.com/cb3 Sarah - hireillo.com/daQ #Illustration #Art #ArtistsOnBsky

Nice looking palette. I’ve never been technical with colour… all on feels. But I love the weird jazz number that is traditional paint. #art #illustration #painting #artist

Kids are back to school today… so proper studio time must happen. Lights and music are on, which definitely counts as working.

This week's awesome featured artists at Hireillo are Jonathan Chapman, @juliaallum.bsky.social and Mark Frudd ❤️ Portfolios: Jonathan - hireillo.com/czs Julia - hireillo.com/cFG Mark - hireillo.com/cSy #Illustration #Art #ArtistsOnBsky

Been away from the studio for a spell… back and finding my feet again. Hampshire looking good from the air yesterday ✈️

Travel Series Challenge No. 3 🖼 🎨 🌍 www.illustrationbyjonathan.co.uk/challenge #art #illustration #painting #travel

Here's this week's newsletter: Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, National Geographic and La Bouche Rouge! 👉 www.hireillo.com/RgB Art by @paulshipper.bsky.social · Roy Huteson Stewart · @grix.bsky.social · @juliaallum.bsky.social · Keith Hopewell · Joanna Scott · @jontofski.bsky.social 🖖

Ooo new print delivery today. Fresh greeting cards for my online shop.🤞🏻 available in local retailers soon #Winchester #stationery #illustration ✉️

Rooftops in progress 🎨 #art #painting #illustration

Hampshire is hosting numerous events in 2025 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. So this year has been rich in Austen inspired projects, like this illustrated map featuring some of the key real life locations for the Austen family. #janeausten #map #illustration #art

June was a monster… two major (short) deadlines, a mural and helping to organise a primary school fete. Plus many, MANY Jane Austen things. Couple of more weeks and kids will be on Summer hols. The remainder of this year is gonna fly 😅

Evita (2025) another theatrical diorama to celebrate this limited run at the London Palladium. Art prints, embellished with hand drawn inks and cut with a scalpel. Fiddly but satisfying work! Commissioned by LW Theatres 🖼 #evita #london #theatre #paperdiorama #illustration #art

Off to London… taking a little art on a train adventure 📦

Chipping away at a little volunteer project at our local school… celebrating 150 years 🎂

Just me and the kids for Father's Day yesterday. They even allowed me to choose the Sunday afternoon movie screening. Perfect.

Dropping off fresh stationery stock at the City Museum today. Loved the opportunity to don our Screever hats. #winchester #citymuseum

Trevi Fountain and Piccolo Buco. Original paper dioramas commissioned for Piccolo Buco by FAM Design. Set for display at 'Piccolo Buco by Cooper's Hawk' 🍷🍕🎨🖼 Brilliant & incredibly fun project for these Italian restaurants in the USA. Helping to tell the story of their traditional Roman origins.

Trevi Fountain, Rome (2025) acrylic and ink on canvas 🎨🖼 #painting #art #illustration #Rome #trevifountain #travel #italy

Home and Away… up on the easel in the next week ✏️ #art #illustration #travel #Winchester #Rome

The Great Hall, Winchester (2025) 🎨🖼 #winchester #painting #illustration #art

Some very enjoyable and much needed travel with my sketchbook last week… returned home to find the studio apple tree in blossom 🌸

'From a Window at 45 Brook Street, London W1.' (1926) This disarmingly simple view by Cedric Morris across rooftops recalls the prosaic subjects favoured by the Camden Town Group. It was painted from the cook's bedroom in the home of Morris's friend Paul Odo Cross.

Parenting goal achieved, genuine sketching with the kids (where they asked to join me) 🤗 Week away with family, looking forward to breezing back into the studio with fresh energy ⚡️ I can also report that Greek islands have good sky ☁️

I'm starting a new pack for traditional painters! Tag yourself or others if you paint with oils, acrylics, watercolors or gouache paints!! 🫶 go.bsky.app/T8VGrF

A reminder to be less rigid with my compositions, this is wonderful.

Hello 👋🏻 I’m Jonathan, an artist & illustrator working from my garden studio in Hampshire, UK. I love traditional paints, pencils and hand drawn inks 🎨✏️🖋️. Inspired by travel, landscape and architecture 🧳 🖼️ 🏯 #art #artwork #artist #illustration #illustrator #painting

Garden riot 🌸

A little more Spring… featuring Chionodoxa and Daffodils ✏️ Busy lines! but hoping, just like the season, those bright colours will soon emerge 🎨 #wip #art #illustration #painting #hampshire

Good painting day ☀️🎨

Made it to Hengistbury Head, great day for a coastal walk ☀️

My neighbour just brought round this beautiful blue tit. Found on the path outside. Possibly flown into a pane of glass? Doesn’t seem hurt, but not going anywhere fast… so now I have a new studio buddy🐦 (on a tall box by the open door, out of the way of any over-friendly felines)

✏️ #wip #winchester #hampshire #art #illustration

Forest spirits spotted in the studio… can share this one later in the week. Theatrical cutout painting with a Japanese twist #art #illustration #drawing #wip

My little corner of the earth 🎨

Did a quick interview with Mariella Hope, about the new St Clements Surgery building where my work is featured inside and out! youtu.be/zWIwZP7lag8?... (spoilers, features me holding a hammer 😆🔨)

Colour imminent 🎨 new #wip #pubpainting

Mitsumine Shrine, Chichibu (2025) acrylic and ink on paper, cut and raised on a black backing board 🎨🖼