illustration

a selection of recent professional and prosective work, combining digital and traditional media 


submission for the Folio Society book illustration awards 2023 - Ursula K le Guin’s ‘The Fliers of Gy’

“There her wings are freed. She lifts them for the first time, and then...
 leaps stumbling off the cliff."




RISO comic - “this too will pass”
sheep move with the sun over a slow summer’s afternoon, taking each moment as it comes.




folio -style illustrations for Mary Oliver’s poem ‘A Meeting’

...She is the most beautiful woman / I have ever seen. / Her child leaps among the flowers, the blue of the sky falls over me / like silk, the flowers burn, and I want / to live my life all over again, to begin again, / to be utterly / wild.





student showcase entry for Falmouth Univeristy ‘Wunderkammer’ 2022

    “It is like a miracle. Someone sees something and then it vanishes. My own father, a miracle happened to him…”
    The Wakhi people tell of mergichan – shape-shifting spirits – which venture down from the mountains to visit them in the form of snow leopards.




experimental monoprint illustrations for Ursula K. le Guin’s ‘A Wizard of Earthsea’




chapter 4  “there was a pomegranate tree near the entrance to the cemetary”


chapter 7  “the look of the lamb”

chapter 18  “waiting”


chapter 25  “for you, a thousand times over”

folio-style illustrations for Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’





©hanna matthews 2025