Wishing one and all a magical Christmas. I'm delighted to share my 2025 Christmas card, which features Merlin in a starry robe, a unicorn and colourful fairies in a fairytale landscape. The design was inspired by my recent visits to Scotland, its mountainous landscape and castles captured my imagination. Additionally, the card has a stained … Continue reading An Enchanted Christmas 2025
Author: natalieknowlesart
CIA Exhibition at Sixteen Gallery
I was delighted to attend the opening of the Cheltenham Illustration Awards 'Future Forecasts' exhibition at Sixteen Gallery. The show runs this week and is a chance to see the selected entries. My selected illustration is inspired by the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. I depicted the early stages of the story where Case … Continue reading CIA Exhibition at Sixteen Gallery
Cheltenham Illustration Awards 2024
It may be 2025, but I have recently found out that I have been selected for the Cheltenham Illustration Awards 2024. This is a narrative art competition which can be a single image or a series of images that tell a story. The theme - Future Forecasts - really resonates with my science fiction focused … Continue reading Cheltenham Illustration Awards 2024
Christmas 2024
Undoubtedly, my 2024 creative projects have been an exciting journey and evolution with Cricut and Yours magazine. It has been magical to see my illustrations replicated in different sizes, forming a little batch production that I know would have enchanted my MA tutors back-in-the-day. I've always hand-drawn my art work and I still get the … Continue reading Christmas 2024