#lara hawthorne

An image of a sculptor dung beetle from my book ‘Herberto’ used in the magazine Resurgence and Ecologist. It’s a lovely article and is available to order or download here: http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/issue293-go-with-the-flow.html

Sketches for Kelsi Farrington’s Rao

A logo I designed for a Bristol based printers called Mockingbird Press! Check their website out here: http://www.mockingbirdpressbristol.co.uk/

A painting I did for Kelsi Farrington’s lovely project about a rat called Rao! 

The full illustration of the commission I did a little while back. It’s full size is A2 and includes: chickens, ferrets, horses, rats, slugs etc.  I had a mini paintbrush with like 3 hairs in it, so it took ages but was really fun to paint.

These scans are all around the time of my book launch in Slovenia. Some newspaper clippings, a flyer, a bookmark scan and a still from a mini film about my work that was filmed for Slovene national television and newspaper ‘Delo’.

This was from last August, I was artist of the month in Hamilton House. Harriet Lee Merrion did a little write up and designed it! Thank you Hattie

Farm creatures

Hello! I’ve been so out of the loop with social media recently and have been quite busy! Here is a section of a nursery painting I’ve worked on recently. Mother pigs with her piglets

Part of a mini series I’ve started working on, inspired by a folktale I read recently about wandering animals seeking refuge. 

Online Shop News! 

Click here for my online shop: https://larahawthorne.bigcartel.com/

Added stock in greetings cards: ‘Bio Bus’, ‘Arts & Music’ and ‘Bakey Cakey’ all available for £2.50 each. 

MINI BEASTS available as A3 and A4 prints! 

All the snakes from the Snake Palace!

Christmassy pale ale fairies painted for @skinnersbrewery (http://www.skinnersbrewery.com/) with lovely design by Alex Rowse from @asidestudio (http://www.a-sidestudio.co.uk/)!

Totally thrilled to show you all a project I’ve illustrated for Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. It’s called King of Christmas and will be published with Picador. It was an absolute joy to illustrate her wonderful writing, and to work with such a brilliant designer Justine Anweiler

The book is available to pre order for October 20th, for more details click here: https://www.panmacmillan.com/books/the-king-of-christmas

Section of a cat map I’ve been working on for Ann Kelley’s As I Was Going to St Ives

An illustration from a book I’m working on at the moment with writer Ann Kelley!

My book Herberto published in Korean! 

I’ve recently joined an exciting illustration agency called Studio Pony! They will represent me in Switzerland and Germany. I’m super excited to be involved with them and I love the other illustrators’ work on their website, check it all out by clicking here