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Happy new year! Here are a few more images I did for ‘The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin‘, to be used in promotional materials and a booklet accompanying the production, which will be touring soon.

The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin

These are two posters commissioned by the Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company for their new production, The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin, which premiers this December and will be touring through the Spring of 2020. The show combines live performance and puppetry to tell a a joyful tale that celebrates individuality through some cracking storytelling, beautifully crafted songs and even a chance to learn how to speak penguin!

The posters offer two quite contrasting designs for the show – which is your favourite?

 

Place Names – Ugglebarnby

Some place names sound less like an actual place and more like a character from a story.

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Place Names – Askham Richard

Some place names sound less like an actual place and more like a character from a story.

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Place Names – Buttercrambe

Some place names sound less like an actual place and more like a character from a story.

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Place Names – Terrington

Some place names sound less like an actual place and more like a character from a story.

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Visit Sherburn-in-Elmet here.

Place Names – Staithes

Some place names sound more like a character than somewhere you’d live.

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Beowulf vs Grendel

‘Time and again Beowulf’s warriors… kept striking out on every side… When they joined the struggle there was something they could not have known at the time, that no blade on earth, no blacksmith’s art could ever damage their demon opponent.’

– From Seamus Heaney’s verse translation of Beowulf.

Mysterious Rocks

This is an illustration of a scene from the book ‘Shine’ by Jill Paton Walsh. It’s a fantastic young adult science fiction story published in the 80s, about families settling on a new planet. In this scene the children discover the mysterious rocks they have been using as a playground are not rocks after all…