John Shelley - Illustrator
@studionib.bsky.social
Illustrator and author for children's publishing and the wider design business. #KidLitUK #illustration https://linktr.ee/studionib
Hi Bluesky friends! What's the best alternative to Google as a web browser? I'm really getting fed up of seeing 2 or 3 pages of sponsored ads appearing before proper results, plus all the unwarranted AI guesswork.
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hi Bluesky friends! What's the best alternative to Google as a web browser? I'm really getting fed up of seeing 2 or 3 pages of sponsored ads appearing before proper results, plus all the unwarranted AI guesswork.
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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
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These blue and white delft tiles are more than decoration: they’re snapshots of 17th- and 18th-century taste, trade, and storytelling. Imported from the Netherlands, delftware tiles were popular for their gleaming tin-glazed surfaces and crisp cobalt designs.
October 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
These blue and white delft tiles are more than decoration: they’re snapshots of 17th- and 18th-century taste, trade, and storytelling. Imported from the Netherlands, delftware tiles were popular for their gleaming tin-glazed surfaces and crisp cobalt designs.
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If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
October 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
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every good scholar needs: a desk; some ink; a demon monkey hovering menacingly above, clutching his own book; and a quill
September 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
every good scholar needs: a desk; some ink; a demon monkey hovering menacingly above, clutching his own book; and a quill
Quote with your yellow art! 💛
The mermaid's dance, from the #HansAndersen story 'The Little Mermaid' 'Ningyohime' 人形姫 (Hyoronsha Publishing, Tokyo)
#kidlitart #kidlitUK #illustration
The mermaid's dance, from the #HansAndersen story 'The Little Mermaid' 'Ningyohime' 人形姫 (Hyoronsha Publishing, Tokyo)
#kidlitart #kidlitUK #illustration
September 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Quote with your yellow art! 💛
The mermaid's dance, from the #HansAndersen story 'The Little Mermaid' 'Ningyohime' 人形姫 (Hyoronsha Publishing, Tokyo)
#kidlitart #kidlitUK #illustration
The mermaid's dance, from the #HansAndersen story 'The Little Mermaid' 'Ningyohime' 人形姫 (Hyoronsha Publishing, Tokyo)
#kidlitart #kidlitUK #illustration
What a great interview with Jeff Mills on #BBC6music with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social I met him in Tokyo back in the day in Maniac Love, such a humble genius.
September 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
What a great interview with Jeff Mills on #BBC6music with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social I met him in Tokyo back in the day in Maniac Love, such a humble genius.
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It is a truth too often unacknowledged, that a populist in possession of the public's rage must be in perpetual want of an enemy.
September 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It is a truth too often unacknowledged, that a populist in possession of the public's rage must be in perpetual want of an enemy.
Some more recent scribbles on the train to London - clouds, pylons, people. #sketchbook #trainsketching
September 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Some more recent scribbles on the train to London - clouds, pylons, people. #sketchbook #trainsketching
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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How do we fix this mess?
September 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
How do we fix this mess?
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I’ve signed this. Authors, illustrators & educators can still sign:
statement-on-palestine.org
We call on the Government to recognise the genocide, meet legal obligations to act accordingly, end complicity in war crimes & arms sales, respect the human right to protest, de-proscribe Palestine Action.
statement-on-palestine.org
We call on the Government to recognise the genocide, meet legal obligations to act accordingly, end complicity in war crimes & arms sales, respect the human right to protest, de-proscribe Palestine Action.
Children’s authors, illustrators, <br/>and educators' statement <br/>on Palestine
statement-on-palestine.org
September 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I’ve signed this. Authors, illustrators & educators can still sign:
statement-on-palestine.org
We call on the Government to recognise the genocide, meet legal obligations to act accordingly, end complicity in war crimes & arms sales, respect the human right to protest, de-proscribe Palestine Action.
statement-on-palestine.org
We call on the Government to recognise the genocide, meet legal obligations to act accordingly, end complicity in war crimes & arms sales, respect the human right to protest, de-proscribe Palestine Action.
Well Done @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - great to hear him defending the corner on BBCRadio4 The Moral Maze this evening. #bbc #radio4
September 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Well Done @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - great to hear him defending the corner on BBCRadio4 The Moral Maze this evening. #bbc #radio4
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You'll probably have to blow it up or look at this on a big screen, but here is how anyone can make a little 8 page zine that they can use to write a story, write about their favorite things, a personal experience or make a mini comic. Fold some paper and get your thoughts out there!!
August 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
You'll probably have to blow it up or look at this on a big screen, but here is how anyone can make a little 8 page zine that they can use to write a story, write about their favorite things, a personal experience or make a mini comic. Fold some paper and get your thoughts out there!!
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'Female Ghost with Sword' from 'The Complete Works of Chikamatsu' - Uemura Shoen, 1923.
#GhostMonth #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt
#GhostMonth #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt
August 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
'Female Ghost with Sword' from 'The Complete Works of Chikamatsu' - Uemura Shoen, 1923.
#GhostMonth #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt
#GhostMonth #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt
This summer, Châteraisé Hotel in Nirasaki #Japan hosted a Field Ballet open-air production of #Cinderella. To accompany the season, illustrations from my PB retelling (published in 1996) were chosen to adorn the rooms and locations in the hotel. A new audience for older work!
#kidlitART #KidkitUK
#kidlitART #KidkitUK
August 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This summer, Châteraisé Hotel in Nirasaki #Japan hosted a Field Ballet open-air production of #Cinderella. To accompany the season, illustrations from my PB retelling (published in 1996) were chosen to adorn the rooms and locations in the hotel. A new audience for older work!
#kidlitART #KidkitUK
#kidlitART #KidkitUK
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Artists have always loved to sketch!
Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.
Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!
MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.
Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!
MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
August 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Artists have always loved to sketch!
Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.
Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!
MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.
Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!
MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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Simon Tisdall highlights the dangers posed by the proliferation of lower-yield, tactical warheads which supposedly allows “limited” nuclear war. Crossing that red line could lead to an unstoppable chain reaction, with horrific consequences. The campaign against nuclear weapons must get much louder👇
As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall
The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold war, says Simon Tisdall, a Guardian foreign affairs commen...
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Simon Tisdall highlights the dangers posed by the proliferation of lower-yield, tactical warheads which supposedly allows “limited” nuclear war. Crossing that red line could lead to an unstoppable chain reaction, with horrific consequences. The campaign against nuclear weapons must get much louder👇
The #TimeForChange is now! Please join me in pledging to take part in the government consultation to #EndHunting @LeagueACS
takeaction.league.org.uk/page/172854/...
takeaction.league.org.uk/page/172854/...
Help me end hunting with dogs
Hunting with dogs was supposed to be banned 20 years ago, but in reality it never stopped. Hunts have continued to chase and kill wild animals as if the law never changed.
takeaction.league.org.uk
August 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The #TimeForChange is now! Please join me in pledging to take part in the government consultation to #EndHunting @LeagueACS
takeaction.league.org.uk/page/172854/...
takeaction.league.org.uk/page/172854/...
'No More Hiroshimas' event taking place in Norwich tomorrow. cnduk.org/events/no-mo... #Norwich #hiroshima #CND
No More Hiroshimas: Norwich - CND
9 Aug 2025 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am - Join Norwich and District CND to mark the 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We will be meeting at the Breath sculpture for peace in...
cnduk.org
August 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
'No More Hiroshimas' event taking place in Norwich tomorrow. cnduk.org/events/no-mo... #Norwich #hiroshima #CND
Sketch through a train window - near Attleborough, sunset.
#sketchbook #norfolk #attleborough #kidlitART
#sketchbook #norfolk #attleborough #kidlitART
August 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Sketch through a train window - near Attleborough, sunset.
#sketchbook #norfolk #attleborough #kidlitART
#sketchbook #norfolk #attleborough #kidlitART
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The hidden magnetic chaos within the Whirlpool Galaxy!
(Credit: NASA, the SOFIA science team, A. Borlaff; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))
(Credit: NASA, the SOFIA science team, A. Borlaff; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))
July 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The hidden magnetic chaos within the Whirlpool Galaxy!
(Credit: NASA, the SOFIA science team, A. Borlaff; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))
(Credit: NASA, the SOFIA science team, A. Borlaff; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))
So sad to learn of the passing of Allan Ahlberg, a giant of UK picture books, so many titles to love, especially his collaborations with late wife Janet on Each Pear Plum and others. Beloved indeed. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... #KidlitUK #Kidlit
Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87
Working first with his wife Janet, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more than 150 books
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
So sad to learn of the passing of Allan Ahlberg, a giant of UK picture books, so many titles to love, especially his collaborations with late wife Janet on Each Pear Plum and others. Beloved indeed. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... #KidlitUK #Kidlit
I've not posted doodles for a while, here's some recent train journey sketches. #kidlitART #sketchbook #kidlitUK #drawing
July 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I've not posted doodles for a while, here's some recent train journey sketches. #kidlitART #sketchbook #kidlitUK #drawing