WRITING AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Writing

For the past thirteen years Jane has written and illustrated a fortnightly "Country Diary" column for five local papers as well as numerous articles for other magazines and publications. Her style of informal narrative makes it a very popular regular feature.

 

 

Jane has also produced education and project packs to accompany the world-touring, international "Dinosaurs Alive!", "Whales" and "Tutankhamun and the Treasures of the Pharaohs" exhibitions. The packs were a big project requiring her to research the background material, write the copy, design the packs and draw the illustrations. The packs as well as being sold to the public, are used in schools throughout Britain and abroad.

 

Please click on the images to see some sample pages from the packs.

 

 

Illustrations

Pen and ink illustrations accompany Jane's fortnightly newspaper columns and have appeared in a variety of other publications, as have her colour illustrations. These are available for use in newspapers, magazines and books and are also for sale as copies and hand-tinted copies (for costs please email with details).

A few examples are shown throughout this website, but if you have a request for a particular subject please ask as she has a large collection covering most British (as well as many foreign) birds and mammals, many plants, fungi and insects and she will probably be able to supply you with what you want. If she does not have the subject you need, then you may wish to commission.

Recently completed is the commissioned illustration project for the 2009 book "Consider the Birds" by Colin Tudge published by Penguin in the UK and Australia and Crown in the US and Canada. Jane also produced illustrations of birds of prey for "Raptors - A Field Guide to Survey and Monitoring" published in 2006.The original illustrations from both of these projects can be seen on the "Originals" page of the website.