illustration

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

Stones zine (2025)
    inspired in part by Ithell Colquhoun’s book ‘The Living Stones’, a zine bringing together all my drawings of stones, celebrating their mystery and magic



Foraging zine (2025)
    exploring the power of deep observation, through drawing or foraging, in building meaningful relationships and connections 



Inversnaid (2025)
           contribution to ‘Taproom Tapestries’ vol. 3. a response to the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins


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” 2023
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’ 2022

“...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.



experimental monoprint illustrations for Ursula K. le Guin’s ‘A Wizard of Earthsea’ 2022




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’ 2021



The Foghorn

silent sequential narrative based on Ray Bradbury’s short story. artwork created in monoprint, digitally formatted and hand-bound with recycled paper and vellum.









©hanna matthews 2025