Doomwyte (Chapter 26)
The opportunity to work on this wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play in the career of an illustrator. I am very grateful to Joy Cowley for bringing my work to the attention of Patti Gauch, Brian Jacques’ editor for Philomel Books in New York.
Patti gave me a chance to do some trial drawings for Triss and eventually I was commissioned to do nine of Brian’s books: seven from his acclaimed Redwall series and two from his Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series.
I illustrated seven Redwall books:
- Triss - Book 15 (2002)
- Loamhedge - Book 16 (2003)
- Rakkety Tam - Book 17 (2004)
- High Rhulain - Book 18 (2005)
- Eulalia - Book 19 (2007)
- Doomwyte - Book 20 (2008)
- Mossflower – Anniversary Edition (text 1988, illus. 2004)


Doomwyte (Book Opener 3)



Redwall Landscape
Redwall still life

Redwall development
High Rhulain...Riggu and Atunra
In 2004 I was given the job of illustrating the Anniversary Edition of Mossflower with large black and white plates. I would dearly have loved to do them in colour, like the image shown here:

Mossflower ..eagle and fox rose into the sky
Selected artworks are available online here.
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Captain Thuron