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Jane McGuinness
@janemcguinness.bsky.social
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Scottish illustrator and author based in Brum. (she/her)
(my handle was janelikesyou on the old birdy place)
Shy but earnest. I like trees. 💚
https://www.janemcguinness.co.uk/
Repped by the Catchpole Agency
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Describe your in person social skills with a GIF.
A GIF from the TV sitcom Frasier. Niles Crane looks apologetic, saying "She exhausts easily under the pressure to be interesting."
January 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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My most borrowed book of 23/24 was 'What's Next?' with @timothyknapman.bsky.social (Walker Books) - hooray for Baby Badger and his Dad! Glad there's still a lot of love for them out there 😊 🤍🦡🖤 #PLR
An illustration from 'What's Next?', a picture book by Timothy Knapman and Jane McGuinness. It shows Baby Badger and his Daddy snuffling in the earth for bluebell bulbs. The cover for 'What's Next?', a picture book published by Walker Books. It shows Baby Badger looking up at the moon and stars, with flowers, mushrooms and creatures around him.
January 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Spent a day or two at my partner's mum's house - Comet appreciated this tribble.
Comet, a brown and white Sheltie dog, lies on a blue carpeted floor. He has a couple of toys next to him, including a furry ball that's a not wholly dissimilar colour to himself. Comet prods the fluffy ball with his nose.
December 9, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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It's both #NationalIllustrationDay *and* #NationalTreeWeek! I've been looking back at 'Into The Forest' lately, so here's a couple of my favourite spreads from it, from the part of the book about the Amazon rainforest. 💚
An illustration from 'The Woodland Trust: Into the Forest', written by Christiane Dorion, illustrated by Jane McGuinness. It's titled 'A Noisy Place' and is set high in the trees of the Amazon rainforest. There are climbing liana vines, passionflowers, orchids and a range of animals and birds, including a sloth, toucan, macaw, hummingbirds, butterflies, a coati, a howler monkey calling, and several little poison dart frogs, living in the water pooled in an aloe plant. An illustration from 'The Woodland Trust: Into the Forest', written by Christiane Dorion, illustrated by Jane McGuinness. This spread is titled 'A Rainy Place', and shows a river and waterfall in the Amazon rainforest. Scarlet macaws fly in a rainy sky, and a jaguar lounges on a branch as kingfishers dive into the water.
November 29, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Show me your pets and what they're named after. 💖
Comet, a brown and white Sheltie dog, jumping playfully on some grass. Comet, a brown and white Sheltie dog, running around playfully in the sunshine. A 16th century illumination from The Augsburg Book of Miracles, showing Halley's Comet shining as it flies through the night sky.
November 29, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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Please share your blue art! 🩵🖼💙

[Click for full pic] This might be the most blue pic I've ever drawn 😆 Blue whale and baby in a baby-blue sea! 🐋
From 'Find Out About: Animal Babies', written by Martin Jenkins, publ by Walker Books. I love whales so much, so this was a lovely opening spread to do!
A spread from 'Find Out About: Animal Babies', written by Martin Jenkins and illustrated by Jane McGuinness. It shows a blue whale and her baby, with light coming from the sea's surface and wee fish swimming around them. The text in the image reads: 'Some animals have BIG Babies. A blue whale baby is about seven metres long and weighs two and a half tonnes when it is born - the biggest baby in the world.'
November 20, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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Snowwww!
Comet, a Shetland sheepdog, in a snowy park
November 19, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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Beach finds from a few weeks ago 🩶 #SmallBeautiesHour #SmallBeauties
An array of pieces of seawashed ceramics, arranged on a white background. Some of the ceramic pieces are plain white, some are terracotta with a cream surface, some have little pieces of pattern on them, and there are a few pieces of sea glass too.
November 18, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Intro post--
I'm Jane, and I illustrate picture books, especially ones about wildlife & nature! 💚 I really love to draw narrative non-fiction, but this year came the release of the first Funny picture book I've worked on (WE ARE THE WIBBLY by Sarah Tagholm), which was incredible fun to be part of 🐸✨
The front cover of We Are The Wibbly, a picture book by Sarah Tagholm and Jane McGuinness. It's green with bubbles/frogspawn and tadpole characters swimming all around the title. The book sits on a blue backdrop with lilypad and toy frog decorations around it. The front cover of Find Out About: Animal Camouflage, a picture book by Martin Jenkins and Jane McGuinness. It shows a snowy scene with Arctic hares and an Arctic Fox curled up asleep. The front cover of What's Next?, a picture book by Timothy Knapman and Jane McGuinness. It shows a baby badger character in front of the moon, looking up curiously, surrounded by flowers, animals and stars. A black and white photo of Jane McGuinness. She's wearing a black hat and a dress with a lace collar. She should probably take a new photo soon but this one has done the job so far.
November 17, 2024 at 5:02 PM