Newsletter October 2022

Gordon Crabb oil paintings coming up for sale

If you don't know much about Gordon you can read more on AskArt. He's been a massively popular artist in the UK for many years and yet has produced much of his work for US publishers. He has a whole plans chest full of paintings to sell, and you can see a few here.

Gordon originals on our site

Gordon on AskArt

Jeffrey Alan Love has produced some beautiful work for the Suntup edition of Schindler's Ark which has just been released. It was a tough book to work on but I think you'll agree that he's tackled it with great sensitivity.

More on Jeffrey here

Believe it or not, Olivia Lomenech Gill has a second exhibition coming up. La Roche Jagu is a stunning 15th century chateau in Brittany, and she has been invited to exhibit her illustration work there. She has chosen original paintings and etchings from four of her books and the main emphasis will be on her work for Medusa, the book retold by Jessie Burton and published last year.

Some of the originals from these books will be available when the show is taken down at the end of December so let me know if you're interested in any of them.

Here is Perseus with his dog - and you can see many more on our website.

Now that the illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has been published, we can show you some of the illustrations. Neil Packer's work had to be very minimal in colour and had to be noticeably different from Jim Kay's. Here's his quite amazing cutaway of the Ministry of Magic. (This is just a small part of it). And there are many more here.

This will be the last book for Jim though. His mental illness has caught up with him so, regrettably, he's handing over – although we don't yet know who will take it on. He's worked on Harry Potter for ten concentrated years and has charmed the readers, over 7000 of whom immediately responded to the news of his departure online with messages of appreciation and understanding.

Jim and his wife, Louise, have met thousands of fans at Comicon in San Diego, they've toured Germany, and Jim has taken part in countless events in the UK. He's done the most fantastic and thorough job and now he's going to take some time off to recover. Just like all those fans who continue to write messages, and also the very kind people at Bloomsbury who have been so understanding, we wish him well.