Oliver Jeffers

On World Refugee Day, the cover I made for @neilhimself s poem about how the smallest acts of kindness can make the most vulnerable safe, whoever we are, wherever we are from.

Today on Juneteenth, a salute to Frederick Douglass -a man who escaped slavery and went on to champion the cause of emancipation of enslaved people in the USA.They recently erected a statue as tribute to him in Belfast, my hometown. He travelled to Ireland in the 1800s, in part to flee recapture...

I neednt explain my love for books, I neednt explain why libraries are good for a healthy societyI grew up going to libraries. My kids grew up going to Brooklyn Public Library. But maybe I do need to explain their importance as suddenly NYC libraries are facing a staggering $58M budget cut How i...

Some new (and newly found in the bottom drawer) drawings for sale via @praise.shadows.art

Considering that planet earth is the only place in the cosmos where people live, it really is my standout favourite place of all. So for World Environment Day I have created this t-shirt for Greenpeace who are fighting to protect it and ensuring it can still bethe favourite place for future gener...

My collaboration with @carandache is now available. Link in bio to get your set, and get access to a tutorial on how I use them. When i was asked to select 8 colours for a special set of luminance pencils, it was easy. I just picked the 8 pencils I replaced most frequently, and therefore-I deduc...

EXCITING NEWS! @carandache and @oliverjeffers have teamed up for an exciting collaboration, creating a very special Luminance 6901 Creative Set that fuses Oliver Jeffers artistic vision with Caran dAches colourful craftsmanship.The set includes: Oliver Jeffers 8 favourite Luminance 6901 shades 1 ...

An accurate scale model of the Earth and the moon last night at the @cfr_org in New York, where we put on a temporary installation of this and some of my other works reflecting on the state of the world.I spoke about disunity being our greatest obstacle, about the importance of community, and the...

I heard it on the News.Well then it must be true!

Back in September of last year, I had the opportunity join a group of young people who are seeking asylum in Northern Ireland, and create an art exhibition together. We called it Seen. Illuminating the lives between the margins, Seen declares that no child should be forgotten. Facilitated by th...

Bit of a reunion with old friends in the studio today.These 4 full body portraits were commissioned by @michaeldeane61 for his Belfast Restaurant Deanes and painted almost 20 years ago.The premise of this small collection was a double first for me when I painted them in 2006, it was the first tim...