Illustrator Storyteller Writer
Newyddion / News
Brand new book of Illustrated Welsh Folk Tales published by the History Press , available now.
Y Cwilt / The Quilt, Gorffenaf 19 July, @ Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum. Illustration by Valeriane Leblond
Upcoming gigs
19 July, Y Cwilt, at Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum, for Aberystwyth Music Fest. 7.30
26 July Machynlleth Library, 2pm Crankie workshop
17 Aug North Wales Africa Society, National Library of Wales, all day
26 Sept Narberth Museum, crankie stories and workshop, details tba​
10 Oct, Crankie exhibition at Love Hope Gallery, Fayetteville, West Virginia, with Valeriane Leblond,
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Illustrations from Y Dilyw / The Flood, book and storytelling commissioned by Portalis, for the Closing Celebration on 18 July
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Chwedl Dŵr / Fairytale of Water, commissioned by WOW, Wales One World Film Festival
And here's an interview for Buzzmag
Crankie for the launch of Siani Pob Man / Shani Chickens, with Valériane Leblond
Boggarts, Trolls & Tylwyth Teg,
Folk Tales of Hidden People and Lost Lands
History Press, published October 2021
Short promo film for Boggarts, Trolls & Tylwyth Teg, filmed by Rhys Thwaites Jones back in the cold of February
Ysbrydoli / Inspire. An article on the Borders Projects for Beyond the Border, Wales' International Storytelling Festival
Illustration from Surprise for Bear, Sunshine Books, Auckland 2021
Poster for Abertoir Horror Festival 2021
Uisce Dŵr Water Flights, Fibs and Fairies: A Folk History of Flight from Fishguard, for Ports Past and Present
Article here:
Still and clip from the film Fairytale of Aberystwyth, commissioned by Beyond the Border, Wales' International Storytelling Festival 2021. With Ailsa Mair Hughes and a crankie of the Swan Girl
Storytelling in Stokes Valley marae in December 2019, with Moira Wairama and Tony Hopkins
Abertoir poster 2020
Margaret Jones and the Art of Visual Storytelling, A talk at the National Library of Wales
Article here
Uisce Dŵr Water
The Mermaid and the Shoemaker, for Ports Past and Present.
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Conversation with film makers Terry S Jones (Seneca Nation - Wolf Clan) and Jacob Whittaker at Native Spirit Festival 16 Nov 2021
Book launch for The Moon-eyed People, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Bookshop, 2019
Three Skeleton Keys.
A still from an animated film commissioned by Abertoir 2021
Chwedlau, Cwiltiau a Chranci / Stories, Quilts and a Crankie
Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwth, Hydfef 31 Oct 2019 - Ionawr 4 January 2020
Wolf-girl comes to Wales,
Folk tales from Appalachia and Wales.
A crankie / concertina book, published 2019, to tie in with the exhibition Curers, Charms and Curses, at Monongalia Arts Center, West Virginia, May 2019.
The Moon-eyed People, Folk Tales from Welsh America, History Press 2019
Lockdown Legends, by Fiona Collins, published for The Old Vicarage Nursing Home, Llangollen, 2020
With writer Joy Cowley. the Nation's Grandmother of New Zealand, for whom I've illustrated many books over the years, including My Sloppy Tiger. You can read about it here at
Crankie workshop at Tenby Museum, with stories created by Brandon, Evie, Menna, Mya and Tilly from the storytelling club founded by Phil Okwedy, 12 March 2022
Cd cover illustration for Midwinter Moon by Ailsa Mair Fox and Badger Brown