Posts by Fay Martin

In my first project to illustrate a fictional story book for young readers, I designed the pages and vignettes for ‘How Birds Got Their Colours‘ written by bestselling Australian children’s book Author, Helen Chapman.  Helen has been an author for 38 years has 96 published books! Here is my colourful cover for this exciting tale.…

Another edition in my colouring book portfolio is ‘The Art of Mindfulness – Relaxed and Focused Coloring’. Here is a video introduction to the book published by Michael O’Mara Books.  

In another project to design pages for a colouring book, I was commissioned to collaborate with other artists, such as the talented Felicity French and Chellie Caroll to create ‘A Calming Colouring Book for Kids’ published by Buster Books a division of Michael O’Mara. I had to design lots of fun pages for children to…

During the first fresh waves of colouring books for adults appearing on the shelves of many bookstores across the world, and the art of mindfulness at the forefront of many publishing companies, I was commissioned by book publishers Harper Collins to create a ‘Floral Adult Colouring Journal’. The book is full of pages to sketch…

For Thunder Bay Press, I worked on an enormous project to design a ‘Color Your Own Tarot‘ collectors book and set of tarot cards. The whole project took many months from initial sketches to completed illustrations, I even designed a whole alphabet to use throughout the book and cards. Thinking back to this project, I…

In a very exciting licensing deal, I have been working with the buying team at Karto in Finland. The Finnish market is much more into postcards, and so my designs have been adapted to fit this format, however I will also be licensing my designs for greeting cards and A5 notebooks to them, as my…

Jean Barrington Ltd was a Gift and Social Stationery supplier based in North Yorkshire and had been in business since 2009. I licensed some of my designs to the company for over a year, which includes some of my ‘In The Wild’ collection and illustrations from my ‘Sanigar Lane’ card range. Each design was produced…

Working for ZSL London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo was amazing, the first time I had been commissioned specifically to illustrate zoo animals. I was commissioned by the creative buying team and collaborator ‘Tinker Tailor‘ to create a set of zoological illustrations to be used on a collection of metal tree decorations for Christmas. The set…

I was commissioned to design a 12 piece collection called ‘Spirit of Nature’ for greeting card publishers Nigel Quiney Publications. Nigel Quiney Publications is a Specialist Greeting Card Publisher with over 50 years experience in the business and have many beautiful collections in their portfolio.It was a pleasure to work with the Creative Director who…