I’m thrilled to say my ceramic Shucky Dog has been shortlisted in the AOI World Illustration Awards – woo hoo!

Over 5000 entires have been whittled down to 200 shortlisted projects, so I feel very honoured to have been selected.

Ceramics is still fairly new to me but I love the process of hand building in clay to create sculptures. As a personal project I have been researching folk tales, including the legend of Black Shuck, the Devil Dog of East Anglia. I wanted to examine how my illustrations of the legend could be presented in a 3D format, and whether an illustrated ceramic form could give further ‘presence’ to the illustrations and enhance the mischief in the tale, like a story within a story.

All the shortlisted projects can be viewed on the Association of Illustrators (AOI) website.

The three book covers that I designed and illustrated for author L M West have won the inaugural Bologna Book Fair Indie Authors Book Jacket Award!

I’m so thrilled my work has been recognised by this award thank you Bologna Books Plus and the Bologna Book Fair!

https://www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/en/awards/indie-authors-book-jacket-award/11388.html

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/onjali-q-rauf-and-sandy-horsley-scoop-bolognabookplus-awards

I am delighted to have been shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize again.

“The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s most important annual open exhibition for drawing.”

This time I have been selected for the Working Drawing Prize – drawings for something that can or will be made. In my case, thumbnail drawings / initial ideas for the book cover The Unnamed, by the author L M West.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition will open to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London E14 0JY from Friday 29 September to Sunday 15 October 2023 before touring to venues across the UK.

I’m so delighted that my Libraries in a Year concertina artist’s book has been shortlisted and will be in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition.

This award was previously known as The Jerwood Drawing prize.

Award winners will be announced at the exhibition launch on the 29th September 2021.

My ‘Libraries in a Year – Before and During Covid-19’ concertina book has been longlisted in the AOI World Illustration Awards ‘Alternative Publishing’ category – YAY!

The Association of Illustration (AOI) runs the World Illustration Awards every year, in conjunction with the Directory of Illustration, to celebrate the best of the world’s illustration projects.

My entry is a hand-made, hand-printed, concertina artist’s book.

Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for the next stage – wish me luck!

I am exhibiting again this year at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, on the Cambridge School of Art stand.

You can find my new book Nature’s Song in area PAD 25, stand B/112.

You can book an appointment if you’d like to see my portfolio.

There will be the usual drinks event at the stand on Wednesday 3rd April from 4:30pm.
See all the lovely CSA books with a glass of wine in hand. What’s not to like!