Saturday, 12 April 2025

Beni Montresor



Beni Montresor (1926-2001) 'Little Red Riding Hood', Published by Doubleday 1991. In his illustrations, Beni Montresor pays homage to 19th century illustrator Gustave Doré. 

Above: Les Contes de Perrault by Charles Perrualt, illustrated by Gustave Dore, 1861

Doré was one of the most famous illustrators of Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood and Montresor's images imitate some of his most memorable engravings: the encounter in the woods, the wolf at grandmother's bedside, and Little Red Riding Hood in bed with the wolf. However they also have the contemporary quality of Maurice Sendak's 'Where the Wild Things Are' with their dense rich foliage. 
















Thursday, 3 April 2025

Monday, 31 March 2025

Hazel Terry wounds

 



The multiple watching/ staring/ unseeing eyes, locked in by emotions and thoughts, licking wounds. 

Sunday, 30 March 2025

Hazel Terry: Grief or Rage, Rage or Grief ?

 


I have paper off cuts from an illustration job, I often do, and luckily love long, thin pieces of paper, to draw or make books from. It seems the wolves have me again,  so I made these two illustrations this morning exploring my inner demons. I haven't had time with them lately, as I have been working to exhaustion and did not let them in (often) during the day. During the night they are crushing and breaking my teeth even with a tooth guard in place  . . . so I will have to face them, and to do so I may return to my muse Little Red Riding Hood. Interpreting her story usually helps me work out perturbing thoughts.




Thursday, 27 March 2025

Sviatlana Sofia Dzemidovich

This illusrtation is part of a series of illustrations about Little Red Riding Hood by Sviatlana Sofia Dzemidovich. The series won in Morse @berrywaterfest , and was the finalist at illustrators exhibition in Bologna @bolognachildrensbookfair.