Small Meanders

Six months on too…

April 6, 2024

A man and a child in Tel Aviv walk past portraits of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since 7 October. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images

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As at the start of February 2025 – at the last hostage body is home.

Heart of Darkness

April 4, 2024

Cat: Great Book, Great Film, Latest

After catching 15 minutes of the outstanding “Apocalypse Now” on the TV last week* I had to grab the Joseph Conrad book on which it is based off the shelf, again.

* Don’t worry it’s on a different shelf of DVDs – in a number of different editions!!!

Whilst looking for an image for the post I came across this treat in the Guardian. I now have a new problem as I’m now left wondering what Steve Bell would have made of Kurtz…

Feature Picture from article by Meah Peers, Screen Rant, published September 13, 2019

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in pictures

From the Guardian 26 August 2014
Conrad’s novella of colonial atrocity has inspired powerful images from entrants to a competition to illustrate the book. The winning pictures will be published in a new edition from the Folio Society later this year. Take a look at a gallery of their work

Sean McSorley won the competition.

Magdalena Szymaniec is a Polish illustrator who lives in Richmond, Virginia. She is a student at Ringling College of Art and Design. Her digital work is inspired by traditional media including watercolour painting and printmaking.

Illustration by Magdalena Szymaniec

Reto Crameri graduated in visual communication from Geneva University of Art and Design. In 2012 he was awarded a grant for book illustration by the City of Geneva.

Illustration by Reto Crameri.

Max P Häring studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste München in Munich, and has worked as an independent artist since 1983. He works in mixed media in pen, ink and acrylics then digitally adds shading.

Illustration by Max P Häring

Kit Russell is a 23-year-old Scottish designer. Having graduated from Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2013, he has spent the last year freelancing as a designer.

Illustration by Kit Russell

Bethany White is a 22-year-old artist and illustrator from Manchester. Her work aims to lift the veil on the esoteric and arcane, delving into the vast subjects of occult philosophy and ancient mythology.

Illustration by Bethany White

Sean McSorley’s work combines traditional ink drawing and printmaking with digital techniques, his subject matter often reflecting his interest in early- and mid-20th-century cinema and literature.

Illustration by Sean McSorley