Sketchbook

Porthcothan Sketchbook - artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman

Porthcothan Sketchbook

Another wonderful year of Cornish inspiration. Our much needed family time by the coast felt particularly sweet this year. The weather stayed fine and any serious cloud blew through within a couple of hours. Perfect conditions for airing the sketchbook and dusting off the travel brushes. Normally i’m lucky if […]

Read More
Constructing City Compositions

Constructing City Compositions

A torturous title 😆. It can be difficult to get across just how much preparation and construction goes into an artwork. Especially the bigger canvas compositions, which can be quite the jigsaw puzzle! I like to think that it’s one of the things I’m quite good at… creating plausible scenes […]

Read More

Mt Fuji Night Lights

Following on from my Northumberland postcard (featuring a sketch of Lindisfarne Castle)… this new digital sketch was inspired by a story from a local family. They described to me the most atmospheric hike I could imagine, scaling the slopes of Mt Fuji at Night. Their tale of the lights bobbing […]

Read More

Northumberland & Yorkshire

Our 2nd family trip of a rather packed Summer! Having travelled as far South as possible (see our annual pilgrimage to the West Country) we then dragged the children North to experience a ‘proper’ British coastal holiday. Welcome to the North Sea kids! A grand adventure it was too; with […]

Read More
Kernow Inspiration Break - Illustration by Jonathan Chapman

Kernow

Last week I escaped to the West country for a much needed Kernow inspiration break. Opportunities to travel have been so limited recently, so the chance to visit one or favourite UK spots was VERY welcome. I took the kids and they spent pretty much the entire time on the […]

Read More