John Shelley - Illustrator

I had permanent residence for 20 years until an official at Narita wrongly cancelled it on a re-entry. Immigration admitted it was a mistake, but I never got it back.

Masaka! This is not the Japan I remember.

Pen and watercolour Illustration of a town at night with characterised smiling face moon looking over.

Moon Town, an old exhibition piece from Japan days. #illustration #townscape #kidlitUK #kidlitART

The illustrated cover of the 'loss and grief reading list' shows multiple rain clouds with a sun poking out from one of them. It is superimposed over a bookshelf.

Nov 17-23 is Bereaved Children's Awareness Week.

The Loss and Grief reading list is a curated selection of 24 titles that focus on the topic of bereavement. It is a guide to stories that empathise, comfort and hopefully connect with young readers.

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Hi Bluesky friends! What's the best alternative to Google as a web browser? I'm really getting fed up of seeing 2 or 3 pages of sponsored ads appearing before proper results, plus all the unwarranted AI guesswork.

I'm chiefly an illustrator, a good part of my career was in Japan, where I lived for over 20 years. But recently I translated a Japanese folktale つるのおんがえし (Tsuru no Ongaeshi)) for an ESL app. It was an interesting challenge, the reading age is quite young so many subtle nuances and requirements.

Picked up a mint condition Technics SL1210 turntable at auction. Grief over my wife's death led me to abandon all my vinyl in Japan when I returned to the UK, it's 20 years since I've spinned discs. But now, maybe pick up the pieces again. All I need is another deck, a mixer, and some records!

I left Musk's miasma a year ago for exactly these reasons.

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

Delft tile with a landscape scene of three figures crossing a bridge under a tree, buildings and a boat in the background. All are hand-painted in blue on a white background.

Delft tile showing a fisherman on a riverbank, with sailing boat, ducks and a distant town.

These blue and white delft tiles are more than decoration: they’re snapshots of 17th- and 18th-century taste, trade, and storytelling. Imported from the Netherlands, delftware tiles were popular for their gleaming tin-glazed surfaces and crisp cobalt designs.

At a population of 340.1 million in the US, that would be 113 million people? Oooh!

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.

If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.

every good scholar needs: a desk; some ink; a demon monkey hovering menacingly above, clutching his own book; and a quill

Quote with your yellow art! 💛

The mermaid's dance, from the #HansAndersen story 'The Little Mermaid' 'Ningyohime' 人形姫 (Hyoronsha Publishing, Tokyo)
#kidlitart #kidlitUK #illustration

What a great interview with Jeff Mills on #BBC6music with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social I met him in Tokyo back in the day in Maniac Love, such a humble genius.

It is a truth too often unacknowledged, that a populist in possession of the public's rage must be in perpetual want of an enemy.

pen drawing sketch of clouds from a train window

pen drawing sketch of an English landscape with an electric pylon from a train window

pen drawing sketch of a train passenger

pen drawing sketch of a train passenger

Some more recent scribbles on the train to London - clouds, pylons, people. #sketchbook #trainsketching

Autumn is absolutely one of the best times to visit Japan, I miss the golden fauna.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

How do we fix this mess?

Hello Brian, what an inspiring theme, thank you for sharing the call-out! Here's a few wintery samples from previous book commissions. Website is johnshelley.com

V&A East Storehouse is a fabulous new museum, utterly unique, with the addition of another building next year. I visited before the Bowie section had opened, so another trip to be planned.

I used to draw a web comic many years ago, long since discontinued, so thought maybe the experience could be valid for the survey, however it's really for people creating comics right now isn't it!

Well Done @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - great to hear him defending the corner on BBCRadio4 The Moral Maze this evening. #bbc #radio4

You'll probably have to blow it up or look at this on a big screen, but here is how anyone can make a little 8 page zine that they can use to write a story, write about their favorite things, a personal experience or make a mini comic. Fold some paper and get your thoughts out there!!

本当にありがとうございます。素敵な物語を描かせていただきました。本物の舞台と衣装を描きたかったのですが、当時はインターネットが普及する前だったので、東京でスロバキアの歴史的な資料を見つけるのは大変でした。スロバキア大使館から、この地域の伝統的な建築を扱った素晴らしい本をいくつか借りることができて、本当に助かりました。

シャトレーゼホテル にらさきの森 | CHÂTERAISÉ HOTEL Nirasaki no Mori シャトレーゼホテル にらさきの森の施設案内をご紹介します。四方に連なる甲斐の山々を見渡す、森の中に佇むホテル。にらさきの森は、学びが生まれる森であり、発想が育まれる森でもあります。8万坪の広大な敷地のなかで、ゆったりと、静かに思考が熟していく時間をお楽しみください。

Les langues étrangères sont toujours interprétées de manière flexible au Japon :) La réponse est quelque chose que seul l'hôtel connaîtra ! nirasaki.chateraisehotel.jp :)

Japanese ukiyo-e print depicting a ghostly figure holding a sword.

'Female Ghost with Sword' from 'The Complete Works of Chikamatsu' - Uemura Shoen, 1923.
#GhostMonth #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

この夏、韮崎にあるシャトレーゼホテルで、フィールドバレエによる野外公演『シンデレラ』が開催されました。この公演のシーゾンに合わせて、僕の絵本（1996年初版）から選ばれたイラストが、ホテル内の客室や会場を彩りました。
古い作品が新たな観客に出会うのは素晴らしいことです。前の作品に新たな観客がみつけた！#シンデレラ #絵本 #バレエ #イラスト #韮崎