Blog | david-mcconochie

Summer Salon Exhibition

I'm proud to be part of the upcoming Summer Salon at the Palm Tree Gallery later this month. Cheers to Bridgeman Gallery for asking me to...

Artists & Illustrators Interview

A big thank-you to Artists and Illustrators Magazine for featuring me in there June issue! There's a nice little interview about my paint...

Fractured Landscapes

I've been working on quite a few new landscapes which are a mostly a combination of remembered places and observations from photographs. ...

New Collage Work

This is a slightly different direction for me. I started these as an exercise really - something almost purely to do with colour and text...

FT Fiction Review - The Underground Railroad

This is an illustration for Financial Times Life and Arts fiction review of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. The book re-ima...

Fading Technicolour Dreams...

I've been working on a few new images based on vintage postcards (often Americana such as gas stations and and Vegas hotels). I love the ...

V&A Illustration Awards Winner!

Slightly late to my own party here but I was named earlier this week as the recipient of the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Award ...

Shortlisted for V&A Illustration Awards 2016

The annual V&A Awards will take place later this month and I'm rather happy to be shortlisted for the Book Cover Award. The selected wor...

Trans Siberia

An page from my sketchbook ... This came from reading an article about the Trans Siberian Railway

Tom Thumbs Arch

Slightly messy sketchbook page of a chimney and wasteland

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