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Jonathan Chapman
@illustrationbyjonathan.com
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Freelance artist & Illustrator. I create colourful figurative artwork from real life places.

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Not sure there's any local people here on 🦋? But i'm opening up the studio a couple of times before the end of the year... illustrationbyjonathan.co.uk/2025/10/wint...
Flyer for Winter Open Studios at 4 Couch Green, Martyr Worthy. Artwork featuring a snowy Notre Dame Cathedral painted by artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman.
November 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Important cake commission for child 2 😆🎂
Amount Us characters in line up, created from fondant Ben’s turning 8… seems pretty sus! Amount Us themed cake decoration.
November 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Calendars finally arrived! 🎉
Notre Dame Cathedral in the snow. Illustrated travel calendar artwork page for December. Patagonia in a riot of colour. Illustrated travel calendar artwork page for October. Mother Ukraine in Kyiv under pastel skies. Illustrated travel calendar artwork page for January. Cover for my Illustrated travel calendar, featuring details from outline sketches of the 12 artworks featured for 2026.
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Saturday Cocktails 🍸
Ampersand cocktail. Autumn coloured gin and brandy martini.
October 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Travel Series Challenge No. 10 🖼 🎨 🌍 www.illustrationbyjonathan.co.uk/challenge #art #illustration #painting #travel
Monument recreated with acrylic and ink against a pastel sky. Monument recreated with acrylic and ink against a pastel sky. Painting on canvas presented in a white floater frame. Monument recreated with acrylic and ink against a pastel sky. Painting on canvas presented in a white floater frame. Monument recreated with acrylic and ink against a pastel sky. Painting on canvas presented in a white floater frame.
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Palette cleaning day… was probably overdue 😬😆🎨
Crusted paint palette (ceramic plate) full of dried acrylic paint. Partially cleaned palette, acrylic paint peeled away to reveal the white ceramic plate.
October 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Lovely stomp around @nationaltrust.org.uk Petworth today. Lots of geese passing through in formation. Kids even allowed us a quick peek inside the house 😊

#Petworth #NationalTrust
Grand Stairs at Petworth House, painted by Louis Laguerre with the story of Pandora and Prometheus. Porpoise! (For the Horrible History fans 😆) Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger at Petworth House. The Lake, Petworth, Sunset, a Stag Drinking. Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851) The grounds of Petworth, late afternoon Sun streaking across the gardens and through the autumnal trees.
October 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Happy Bookshop Day @pgwells.bsky.social!

🥳📕📚📕📘📙📗📖📚📓

www.pgwells.co.uk

#booksky #bookshop #winchester
My illustration of P&G Wells, independent booksellers and stationers in Winchester.
October 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Mushroom! 🍄‍🟫
Playing will angles; Mushroom spotting in Micheldever Woods, Hampshire. A toadstool viewed from the ground. Surrounded by green canopy.
October 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Shroom spotting in Micheldever Woods this afternoon. Autumn delights 🍄‍🟫🍂🍁
Crimson capped mushroom surrounded by a carpet of brown autumn leaves. Blue/Green mushroom surrounded by a carpet of brown autumn leaves. Frilly delicate mushroom surrounded by a carpet of brown autumn leaves. Decorated bell top of a delicate mushroom found in a woodpile.
October 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Travel Series Challenge No. 1 🖼 🎨 🌍 www.illustrationbyjonathan.co.uk/challenge #art #illustration #painting #travel
Monte Fitz Roy is a mountain in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is located in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, near El Chaltén village and Viedma Lake. It was first climbed in 1952 by French alpinists Lionel Terray and Guido Magnone. This is my original acrylic and ink painting of the Fitz Roy peak, completed on a 30 x 30 cm canvas and presented in a floater frame. I enjoyed creating contrast between the soft pastel colours of the sky with the strong earthy reds and oranges. The painting became a little abstract with the additional pen detail... drawn over the paint surface to create definition and shape.
October 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Added some lighting up the garden path… preparation for the darker evenings and a couple of open studio days in Nov and Dec.
Glowing string lights leading up a brick path through a mossy lawn towards my studio at the top of the garden.
October 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Mountains 🎨🏔️ #art #illustration #painting
Mountains in progress, original acrylic and ink painting featuring a glowing mountain scene with hints of pink and purple.
October 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Travel Series Challenge No. 5 🖼 🎨 🌍 www.illustrationbyjonathan.co.uk/challenge #art #illustration #painting #travel
Blue acrylic and ink painting on canvas created by artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman. Inspired by Icelandic architecture. Blue acrylic and ink painting on canvas created by artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman. Inspired by Icelandic architecture. Blue acrylic and ink painting on canvas created by artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman. Inspired by Icelandic architecture. Blue acrylic and ink painting on canvas created by artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman. Inspired by Icelandic architecture.
September 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Travel Series Challenge No. 9 🖼 🎨 🌍 www.illustrationbyjonathan.co.uk/challenge #art #illustration #painting #travel
Prayer flags flying over a temple in Kathmandu, original acrylic and ink painting on canvas created by artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman The canvas is thin profile, but presented within a black floater frame. Expressive brushwork, mixed with graphic line detail. Abstract shapes of joyous colour against a blue sky, tumbling down from the golden temple spire.
September 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Travel Series Challenge No. 6 🖼 🎨 🌍 www.illustrationbyjonathan.co.uk/challenge #art #illustration #painting #travel
Clock tower at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne. Travel illustration created by artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman with acrylic and ink. Flinders Street Station, Melbourne. Travel illustration created by artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman with acrylic and ink. Main entrance to Flinders Street Station, Melbourne. Travel illustration created by artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman with acrylic and ink.
September 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Nice looking palette. I’ve never been technical with colour… all on feels. But I love the weird jazz number that is traditional paint.
#art #illustration #painting #artist
Crusted paint palette
September 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Kids are back to school today… so proper studio time must happen. Lights and music are on, which definitely counts as working.
Artist and illustrator Jonathan Chapman pretending to work in his garden studio. Dab dab, scritch-scratch… etc etc
September 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Been away from the studio for a spell… back and finding my feet again. Hampshire looking good from the air yesterday ✈️
View to the ground through small patches of cloud, taken from a plane flying over Hampshire, UK
August 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Travel Series Challenge No. 3 🖼 🎨 🌍
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#art #illustration #painting #travel
August 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Ooo new print delivery today. Fresh greeting cards for my online shop.🤞🏻 available in local retailers soon #Winchester #stationery #illustration ✉️
July 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Florence Rooftops (2025) 🖼️ #art #illustration #painting #Italy #Florence
July 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Rooftops in progress 🎨
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Terracotta rooftops, work in progress painting with acrylic and ink…
July 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Hampshire is hosting numerous events in 2025 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. So this year has been rich in Austen inspired projects, like this illustrated map featuring some of the key real life locations for the Austen family. #janeausten #map #illustration #art
Jane Austen's Hampshire Map, illustrated map of Hampshire featuring some of the key real life locations for the Austen family. Including Winchester, Chawton, Southampton and Steventon. Jane Austen's Hampshire Map, illustrated map of Hampshire featuring some of the key real life locations for the Austen family. Including Winchester, Chawton, Southampton and Steventon. Jane Austen's Hampshire Map, illustrated map of Hampshire featuring some of the key real life locations for the Austen family. Including Winchester, Chawton, Southampton and Steventon. Jane Austen's Hampshire Map, illustrated map of Hampshire featuring some of the key real life locations for the Austen family. Including Winchester, Chawton, Southampton and Steventon.
July 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Evita (2025) another theatrical diorama to celebrate this limited run at the London Palladium. Art prints, embellished with hand drawn inks and cut with a scalpel. Fiddly but satisfying work! Commissioned by LW Theatres 🖼

#evita #london #theatre #paperdiorama #illustration #art
Art prints cut by hand and raised from the backing paper in layers... Presented within a white box frame Through the layers different parts of the illustrated building are revealed, depending on the angle at which you are viewing. Created for LW Theatres in celebrate the limited run at the London Palladium.
July 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM