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HaarShop at the HaarFest in Anstruther!
Yippee - I have been invited by Lovely Pidgeon to take part in a brand new festival called Haarfest in Anstruther, which is organised by the lovely Kenny Anderson, aka King Creosote and the Fence...
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Hi Ho, Silver - Images 34 Awards
Excitement in the Calder studio this week!I won a Silver Award at Images 34 : Best of British Illustration Awards in London!My work for Garden Detectives for National Museums of Scotland was selected...
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"Delete This at Your Peril : The Bob Servant Emails" by Neil Forsyth
Exciting times indeed! It's not often that I illustrate a pair of book covers where the main character is a 64 year old Dundonian cheeseburger van owner, who is then played by a top Hollywood actor...
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Working Drawings Conference // Sheffield, December 3rd 2010
I seem to be the last person to post about this...it must be the bad weather affecting me! Thank you to everyone else who has blogged about this in any way!Anyway, I am heading down to Sheffield on...
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Luerzers 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide OUT NOW!
Folks, I am delighted to be selected for this lovely, gorgeous publication! Here's the blurb from the Luerzers website: "There were no fewer than 6,075 submissions received for the 4th edition of 200...
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I am a Guest at Gray's...
Just to let you know that on Thursday 21st April I have been invited to give a guest lecture at Gray's School of Art in Oil City itself: Aberdeen!Here's a bit about this lecture programme that has been...
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Contact 27 is out NOW!
Just to say that Contact 27 landed on my doorstep last week (with a slightly smaller thud than last year)The beautiful cover image was done by my friend and fellow lettersmith, Sarah Coleman AKA...
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Being interviewed by Vasilisa Baruskova...
Vasilisa Barsukova, a Graphic Design student at Lamar Dodd School of Art at University of Georgia in the USA interviews me for her Illustration class!It was a great interview and I thought I might...
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V&A Illustration Awards 2011
I am very chuffed indeed to have my work shortlisted for the 2011 V&A Illustration AwardsThis is for my book cover illustration and lettering on "Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee" by Neil Forsyth, a...
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Treat Yourself...new Pop-Up shop!
I am delighted to be one of the 30 artists and makers who have been invited to take part in "Treat"– Fife Contemporary Art & Craft’s very first pop-up shop! If you fancy a Jill Calder signed print...
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Central Illustration Agency and Me...
Big Announcement, folks!I am delighted and truly thrilled to be invited to be part of the mighty Central Illustration Agency, based in London, who will now represent my illustration and lettering work...
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Gary MacKean's Beasties
I just wanted to promote a great exhibition by illustrator Gary MacKean, currently a MFA student at Edinburgh College of Art, which opens tomorrow!Gary's work is dark and quirky and well worth going to...
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Guardian Work cover : The Happiness Business
Been meaning to post this job for ages, especially as I was asked to do this by my Facebook page fans/likers/you know who you are!Sarah Habershon asked me to illustrate the theme of happiness at work,...
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All The Things I Should Have Blogged About But Didn't
No blog post since August is pretty shoddy, I'll admit - but there have been a few good reasons for my focus to be elsewhere. First and foremost is that my sister very nearly popped her clogs in...
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The Theatre/Theater, dahling!
New York City? Iconic skyline? Wooden water towers? Flyers swirling in the Midtown breeze? Girl in cute little ankle boots picking one up? Yes, all elements in a new illustration I was commissioned to...
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NEW PRINTS!
Amongst all the jobs and workshop planning, I have been trying to get some new prints done. I sell my work through two galleries, Funky Scottish and The Outbye Gallery, as well as during East Neuk Open...
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2012 East Neuk Open Studios
East Neuk Open Studios - June 16-17 and 23-24. 10.30am to 6.30pmI have done tonnes of new work especially for ENOS this year! The above print, "Lion Food" is a new member of my popular "Not Cute"...
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Queen Kook: Portrait of a Bohemian Blue-Blood
Kook is the latest portrait in my on-going series of glamorous illustrations which I rather bizarrely entitle "The Hair Girls". This series, which also includes Frisco and USAville, is inspired by my...
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Have a Cosy Christmas!
Hello lovely people! Here's hoping you have all (unlike me) done your shopping, wrapped your presents, hummed a carol, stashed your mince pies and cracked open the sherry already. No? Well, you still...
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Slàinte mhath! • [ slanj'-uh va' ]
...or, Benromach Single Malt Whisky ( no"e") and MeNeil, David and Richard Urquhart of Gordon & MacPhail toasting Keith and Mike!On a cold winter's day last year I was contacted by renaissance man...
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Little Black Book of Seafood
This was a dream illustration and lettering job that first landed on my desk almost a year ago, took a while to get going, then BAM! - it's everywhere now! Here's the story: The lovely and sassy team...
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Sunday Times Magazine - Art on Sunday
The Sunday Times Magazine has a had a wee bit of a make-over recently and they have a new feature called Art On Sunday. It's a pretty tiny spot but it does *ping* out of a page of Witter interviews and...
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East Neuk Open Studios in June
"Jungle Bus" by Jill Calder © 2013It's that Open Studios time of year again! Yes, I'll be flinging open my doors in Cellardyke on June 8-9th and June 15-16th as part of East Neuk Open Studios, so...
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My Illustration Workshop on Iona - Inkery on the Island!
It's true, I have years of experience as a lecturer (Edinburgh College of Art and several other educational establishments too) but I have never hosted a residential Illustration workshop! Well, it's...
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*Winner!* Communication Arts 4th Typography Competition
These days, there are quite a few competitions in the design world for us illustrators and hand letterers to enter and showcase our work and be judged by industry peers - some of them being serious...
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