Things that have escaped my drawing board…

Published Illustrations

Calamites (watercolour) Reconstruction of the fossil plant Calamites, used in an exhibition about Carboniferous plants, especially found at Brymbo in north Wales. The exhibition is called “the Swamp Forest” and is scheduled to run for 1 year from May 2019 at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales.

T-shirt design for Hidden Earth Conference 2018 (Adobe Illustrator) Inspired by photograph by Chris Howes

  • Guardians of Sekudu – Singapore (watercolour)Illustration in article about our project in Singapore in Geoscientist Magazine Vol 27 No 10 2017 https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/~/media/shared/documents/Geoscientist/2017/Geoscientist_Nov2017_Lr.pdf
  • Carboniferous Fossil Plants (11 watercolour and 26 pen and ink drawings). Pamphlet made for the South Wales Geologists Association in 2016 to help students visualise the fossils they were fining at various events, through reconstructions.
  • Carboniferous plants Images from above leaflet used in article Hastings & District Geological Society Journal, Vol. 22, December 2016
  • Charnia masoni  (graphite)
    • Reconstruction of Ediacaran fauna, created for a permanent exhibition at the Lapworth Museum, Birmingham, in 2016.
  • Ediacaran faunas (graphite)
    • Created for a permanent exhibition at the Lapworth Museum, Birmingham, in 2016. Drawing representing various faunas to be seen on a slab donated by the British Geological Survey.

Karst Great Britain (KGB) Logo (pen and ink and Adobe Illustrator)

  • Logo created for a conference and used on conference program and printed on bags and badges. The conference was held in 2015 in Birmingham University.
  • Fertile rhyniophyta (watercolour)
    • Reconstruction created for a book that I edited: Harlow, D. 2014. The Beacons Way. South Wales Geologists Association
  • Crinoid diagram (pen and ink)
    • Diagram created for a book that I edited: Harlow, D. 2014. The Beacons Way. South Wales Geologists Association
  • Doline diagram (Adobe Illustrator)
    • Diagram created for a book that I edited: Harlow, D. 2014. The Beacons Way. South Wales Geologists Association
  • Jawless fish (graphite)
    • Reconstruction created for a book that I edited: Harlow, D. 2014. The Beacons Way. South Wales Geologists Association
  • The evolution of a waterfall (pen and ink and Adobe Illustrator)
    • Illustration of how a waterfall erodes the streambed and migrates upstream. For the Henrhyd Falls – Fforest Fawr Geopark Trail guide. 2010
  • Features of caves and limestone (watercolour)
    • Diagram for a book – Sparrow A., 2010. The Complete Caving Manual (book)
  • Effects of Flooding (Adobe Illustrator)
    • Diagram for a book – Sparrow A., 2010. The Complete Caving Manual (book)
  • A Cave Dig (coloured pencil)
    • Diagram for a book – Sparrow A., 2010. The Complete Caving Manual (book)
  • Cave fish x60 (pen and ink)
    • Around 60 illustrations for a book and later a website about cave fish. Proudlove, G. 2006. Subterranean Fishes of the World (book). International Society for Subterranean Biology and https://cavefishes.org.uk
  • T-shirt design for Hidden Earth Conference 2004
  • A cave map (Adobe Illustrator)
    • Illustration of a cave survey in a book. Howes, C. 2002. Radical Sports – Caving
  • Vignettes x15 (pen and ink)
    • Series of 15 vignettes, used as Chapter Headings in Essential Sources in Cave Science published by British Cave Research Association
  • Inspired by Lascaux (pen and ink)
    • Illustration for a book of poetry by members of the International Society of Speleaological Art
  • Old bones (pen and ink)
    • Illustration for a book of poetry by members of the International Society of Speleaological Art
  • Tackle bag ISSA Poetry Book (pen and ink)
    • Illustration for a book of poetry by members of the International Society of Speleaological Art
  • Heron (pen and ink)
    • Plaque on Transh yr hebog reen, Cardiff. C. 1995
  • Welsh Wildlife in 25 images (pen and ink)
    • Illustrations for a book of wildlife walks published by the Cardiff Naturalist Society in  1995. Wildlife around Cardiff: six further wildlife walks.

Prizes Received:

  • 2018. Hidden Earth. Merit for t-shirt design
  • 2016. Hidden Earth. St Cuthberts Mill. Watercolour on paper. Swamp creek.
  • 2015. Hidden Earth. St Cuthberts Mill. Watercolour on paper. Found my marbles.
  • 2013. Hidden Earth. St Cuthberts Mill. Coloured pencil on paper. Breveritas Entrance.
  • 2008. Hidden Earth. St Cuthberts Mill. Coloured pencil on paper. Illustration for Complete caving manual.
  • 2006. Hidden Earth. St Cuthberts Mill. Graphite on paper. What is this life…
  • 2004. Hidden Earth. St Cuthberts Mill. Graphite on paper. Catching my breath
  • 2002. Hidden Earth. Second Prize. The Bridge. Watercolour on paper

Wells Museum Exhibitions:

  • 2004 (Beneath the Hills)
  • 2007 (Artists in the Underworld)

Other Exhibitions

  • 2009 (Kents Cavern. 2002 Where darkness shines)

Other Features

  • Featured on “Paint it black” a Womans hour program for the BBC Radio 4 about International Society of Speleaological Artists (ISSA). 2002.

Demonstrations:

  • Shapwick school 2008. Scientific Illustration.