I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.