2022 Art — an incomplete survey

This post is a non-exhaustive round-up of 2022’s art — mostly projects published, as there are of course also projects completed but which I can’t show or can only discuss indirectly, and so on. (For writing, see 2022 Writing Update.)

I’m almost entirely certain I have missed some significant milestones — I did lose a chunk of time and focus to being unwell. And I definitely have worked on a lot of other art that Has Not Yet Been Revealed.

This post is quite long, because of the images, so if you’re reading on the blog, the rest is below this cut:

Photo of book Flight, closed, on original illustrations — *Flight*, by Angela Slatter and illustrated by me, was published by PS Publishing!

Fantasy map of woodlands — Two maps for Amanda Foody’s *Wilderlore* series (see also an interview with Amanda Foody, Karyn Lee (designer) and Kate Prosswimmer (editor)

Fantasy map of islands — Two maps for Amanda Foody’s *Wilderlore* series (see also an interview with Amanda Foody, Karyn Lee (designer) and Kate Prosswimmer (editor)

Tiny ink drawings of house, sheep, toad — Lots more art in the *Wilderlore* process post and interviews

Album cover: mermaid drowning a sailor in a blue linocut illustration, with album title "Love Songs For Jilted Mermaids — Foulweather Bluff" — Foulweather Bluff’s *Love Songs for Jilted Mermaids* came out, with my art on the album

Cut paper silhouette swirl with fish, birds, person with paper planes — Story prompt art for Wordplay Annual Qld Schools Microfiction Writing Competition

Close-up of illustrated bookstore map printed on newsprint — The map of Western Massachusetts Bookstores I drew for Book Moon came out!

Photo of whiteboard with very scribbly fairy-tale map on it — I drew in several capacities at the Brisbane Writers Festival

Sketches of people waiting in a book signing line — I drew in several capacities at the Brisbane Writers Festival

Mock-ups of a book of map making instructions — And designed this little instruction book for a sequence of map workshops for the Brisbane Libraries

My art was featured as endpapers in Flight magazine

Cover of Curlews on Vulture Street by Darryl Jones — a photo of a bush stone-curlew on a blue background — *Curlews on Vulture Street* was published, with my illustrations, and I exhibited the originals at Avid Reader

Hand holding partially cut silhouette — boy in bucket hat, magpie, egret — *Curlews on Vulture Street* was published, with my illustrations, and I exhibited the originals at Avid Reader

Hand holding bookplate sticker: gold pattern of hind girls dancing on black paper — I designed these foil-printed book signing plates for Angela Slatter

Photo of book opened to signing page with watercolour design of mushrooms and tiny creatures — Watercolour and ink signing page for LitJoy Crate’s special edition of *The Cruel Prince*

"The Valley of Flowers" cover — a silhouette (yellow to pink gradient on dark blue background) of flowers with beasts and knights and monks among them, and towers below descending like roots — The cover for Phantom Mill Press’s game *Wildendrem*

Photo of A1 prints of art on easels in front of long windows in a university corridor — I had prints in an art show at Kanagawa University!

Photo of the boards under the dustjacket of Holly Black's The Stolen Heir: a line drawing of a fox leaping downwards with a heart in its jaws — The cover foils for Holly Black’s *The Stolen Heir* were revealed… (photo pinched from Holly’s instagram)

World Fantasy Convention art show

Illustrator battle at Where the Wild Things Are bookshop

12 tiled fairytale patterns — Twelve calendar designs, with multiple colourways

Many observation journal drawings — and many observation journal posts, although primarily with pages from previous years. I need to hurry up and gain some ground on that posting schedule!