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Category Archives: illustration

Venturing out …

Venturing Out is a book of ‘poems and portraits’ by Roger Rees, published by Moonglow Publishing. The background illustration for the cover and the pictures to introduce each section:

Cat’n’Mammoth: a story …

Read the complete story here !

Cycle lightly …

Two information signs for the new cycle trails at Bowman Park, near Crystal Brook in South Australia. Some earlier signs for the park can be seen here.

Our urban ecosystem …

A large poster illustration of an urban ecosystem for Green Adelaide/Resilient Communities. Included are many features of a healthy urban ecosystem, discussion points for its use in schools etc. It is a companion to the earlier Mangroves, Seaside and Bushland posters.

Mangroves and much, much more …

A panorama representing the mangroves north of Port Adelaide for Green Adelaide as an educational resource. The creatures, plants and other objects are separate illustrations that can be placed on the background.

The panorama above shows the scene at high tide. The low tide scene is below…

Words in the wind …

Citizens …

The ‘Where are you from?’ cartoon has been used in the South Korean text book Citizens and Social Participation, published by Mabook Publishing Company, Incheon, South Korea. Here is the text book with its companion book Citizens and Social Justice. Well illustrated, great looking books.

Know your world …

Independence Educational Publishers UK publish Issues, a series of resource books, now containing over 70 titles, covering a variety of subjects, used primarily by librarians and teachers to help their students gain a better understanding of the world around them and the issues which affect their lives. Read more here.

Just published Issues:

Each book has cartoon illustrations by Angelo Madrid and Simon Kneebone. Here are some of my cartoons from the latest books:

Haven exhibition …

Haven is an exhibition at Gallery M, in Marion, South Australia, of etchings and lino prints, drawings, paintings & ceramics by Pirie Martin, Maryanne Martin & John Martin, and Simon Kneebone. The exhibition is open from the 11th of June. Here are some of my ink and watercolour paintings.

Kunmanara …

Kunmanara is a book published by the Department for Education, Government of South Australia, for use in schools in the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands in the remote north west of South Australia. There are Pitjantjatjara and Yakunytjatjara language versions.