This Place Where I live

Some pictures that will be featuring in the exhibition. The Private View is at 6.30pm at The Zetter Hotel on Clerkenwell Rd. Hope to see you there!

Morning Colours - CD Swap

Due to printer problems, I decided to hand draw my 10 covers for Peter Field's annual mix CD swap...

And October leaves cover everything...

This Place Where I Live

Natsko Seki and I will be having an exhibition in the foyer of The Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell London EC1. It opens on the 4th of November and will be up for the rest of the month. Its an exhibition of personal work inspired by our home city (London) and will feature watercolour paintings, collages and prints. The Private View is Wednesday the 4th of November from 6.30 onwards. Please join us then.

Field Work

I am very honoured to be taking part in Field Work a pop up shop and gallery organished by my lovely friends Caitlin Hinshelwood and Rose de Borman. I will be displaying a few things in the company of some very talented people including the aforementioned ladies, Jonny Hannah, Luke Best, Maxwell Wade and James Nash. Please see the flyer for opening times and location. The Private View is on the 29th of October- I hope to see you all there!

Britain Can Still Make It

A reissued Ernest Race Chair upholstered in my St Jude's Treehouse Fabric was featured in the recent Britain can still make it exhibition at Liberty.

Wedding Cake

I was very pleased see at my friends' Katie and Stephen's recent wedding that the cake had been decorated in the style of the invitation I designed. Its not every day that you get to eat cake in the style of your drawings and the wedding was lovely too...

NEW WEBSITE www.alicestevenson.com

At long, long last my new, improved site is live. Please have a look here:

Organised Fun

I recently illustrated the cover and insides for "Organised Fun" by Josie Curran published by Pan Macmillan. A book of games of all descriptions including cow pat frisbee and human crufts...

William Fiennes

I was delighted to be asked to illustrate the covers for William Fiennes's two beautiful books "The Snow Geese" and "The Music Room" for Pan Macmillan.

But my heart cried out for you, California

It looks like I am going to be spending next spring in the San Francisco Bay area doing an artist's residency. I am pretty thrilled as its a part of the world I've always dreamed of. Any recommendations of beautiful things to see and do there would be much, much appreciated...

Secret Music

Recent Painting From My Parents' Garden

Melancholy Thistle

I was very pleased to discover as I flicked through my book of British Wildflowers that there is a thistle called the Melancholy Thistle...

It Arrived!

Recent Collage Experiments

The Double Helix

I recently designed this repeat pattern for the cover of the new Folio Society edition of The Double Helix by James D. Watson. Maybe not light, holiday reading...

Carol Ann Duffy's Collected Childrens Poems

I have spent a good chunk of this year working on both the cover and inside illustrations for Carol Ann Duffy's Collected Childrens Poems for Faber and Faber. There were 147 illustrations in total so it was a bit of a marathon but very rewarding and enjoyable! I believe its due out in the shops very soon...