My father passed on a deep love of illustrated books even before infant Nick could follow a story. As a child, I would pore over the work of Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham, William Heath Robinson and EH Shepard, admiring the apparent simplicity of line drawings most of all.

My love of storytelling in rhyme came much later. I discovered Dr Seuss and Julia Donaldson, and rediscovered the rhymes of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll when I became a father myself. My very favourite illustrated book is Skottie Young’s version of Neil Gaiman’s Fortunately the Milk, followed closely by almost everything by Quentin Blake and Dr Seuss.

Almost all of the work on this site is done in Procreate on an iPad Pro.  Some of the life and open air sketches are done on paper, I used to use expensive soft pencils, and grainy paper; more recently dirt cheap printer stock and mechanical pencils from Wilco!