Gillian Eilidh O’Mara | Artist & Writer 🎨 ✏️ ✨
@lightonthesea_
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Scottish author and illustrator, big thinker, daydreamer, co-creator, community lover. Rep'd by Jennifer Laughran at @Andreabrownlit .
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It's a massive week for
@08macbry
and I, because 'The Night Whale' is releasing on Thursday 6th June with
@BIGPictureBooks
!
If you had planned to get a copy, this week would be an amazing time to do so. So grateful.💕
cc: the best team
@PauliinaPopcorn
and
@JuliaThompsonA
💕💕
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Out of office, into the stories ✨
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The Light on the Sea....✨
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Just got the amazing news that I’ve been APPROVED for funding to start a literacy and storytelling initiative in my local area, based around co-creating books together in schools and the community and starting a wee book festival to get families reading together. Yaaaay! 🥳
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Made this wee poster to be my constant reminder for 2023 ✨✨✨
Happy Hogmanay pals!
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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We are sunflower seeds. Marking one year of war in Ukraine. Come peace, come healing.
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One of the standout
#inaugurationcoats
on Ella Emhoff....
#livedoodling
#ellaemhoff
#InaugurationDay
#Inauguration
#inaugurationcoats
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What is your favourite thing or memory about libraries?
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‘We are Sunflower Seeds’. Still lying awake thinking of all those sheltering, hiding, running and seeking safety.
#ukraine
#StandWithUkraine
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#peace
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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Happy Winter Solstice! May the shortest day and the quiet of the dark be our teacher, so that we are ready to welcome the return of the light ✨✨✨
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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A massive new year rainbow stretched over my whole house today and it felt exactly like my illustration for January in my calendar. I hope it's a sign of magic to come this year.
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Illustrating a couple of very lyrical picture book texts lately (writing some too!) and absolutely loving it. Feel free to send me more of those, publishing gods, especially those ones that are all sadness, hope & joy wrapped up in a big ball of expressive art. I'm here for it✨
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I’m really quite pleased tonight as I can now say that I‘m represented by Jennifer Laughran at Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
@literaticat
🎉 An exciting step towards some author-illustrator dreams. Jenn is happy to take enquiries on my work. ♥️
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For my granny, who is still here but whose mind is mostly elsewhere. I hope her thoughts are in beautiful places✨❤️
#dementia
#granny
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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Eid Mubarak to all who are celebrating ✨
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Enjoyable experiments laying hand-painted repeat patterns into illustrations so the characters can ‘wear’ them
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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The air is colder but there’s still a magical light on the sea ✨ (Just how I like it, actually)
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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Had to turn down a beautiful picture book with a VERY favourite author earlier this year due to timing and it HURT to say no but as fate would have it, it’s been rescheduled for later and I just said yes 🥳 💃🏻
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I wanna read more picture books set in obviously working class areas like the council tenements I grew up in that aren't only about being poor. I work with schools now in similar places and know the kids need to see themselves in books. I know, I know.... go and write them. 😊
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May we all evolve to the stage where whether a woman chooses to cover her hair fully, partially or not at all is her own freedom, so that she may walk through the world safe from violence or ridicule, in all her radiance and full humanity.
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I seem to draw a lot of sleeping people and I was wondering if there was a deeper reason but pretty sure it’s just that I love naps.
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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I know it's going to sound pure trite... but I still get regularly overwhelmed by just how bonnie the world is and just how miraculous it is that we have breath. There aren't many days left, I might even be past the halfway point of it all but my goodness, there is still beauty.
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Personal post & NOT self-pity, but my first year of ‘making it’ in picture books is also the year I became a solo parent, got covid x 3, broke a leg & more. Been juggling a lot on my own but the book I just finished illustrating makes it all worthwhile. Hold onto dreams ❤️✨
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DELIGHTED to officially reveal the cover of ‘ The Night Whale’, written by genius debut author Bryher Mackenzie
@08macbry
with illustrations from me. It will be published by
@BIGPictureBooks
on 6th June in the UK and 4th December by
@Candlewick
in the US! 🐋✨🔭
#worldwhaleday
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Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan
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I think I want to make some quiet picture books, the kind that somehow feel like ’belonging’ in an unassuming way. Hmmmm, searching for the words. ✨
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Is there a modern book comparable to 1982's 'Miss Rumphius', PB about a lifelong independent, bike-riding, traveling woman who beautifies the world by planting lupines? I discovered her thanks to my agent comparing the author and my work and love this character.
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Today I began a cool role as an artist-in-residence with a primary school. The kids and I are going to be co-creating books, paper theatre and more and I'll be continuing my research into early years literacy and imagination. Pencils and glue sticks at the ready!
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This week has been absolutely rubbish and there’s no easy answers so here’s a pretty birdy instead.🕊
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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A sketch of my neighbour Peter who, at the age of 80, is buying a field with his wife as a gift for the community and planting seeds of social impact they may or may not see. What a profound thing to witness. 🌱🌿🌳
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Just had a cheese & jam sandwich because my granny, whose house I lived in as much as my own, use to give me one with a really milky wee cup of tea. She’s still here but her mind has been away for a while now and she lives 200 miles north- quietly missing her on all the levels.🍞
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My 6 year old proclaimed with amazing comedic timing, "A boy in school was bullying me so I just said 'Your mother gave you life and THIS is how you choose to use it?'". 100% she must have heard it somewhere but now I too am haunted by her question 😶☺
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The Girl Who Heard Colours
Quite chuffed with my little study this morning ❤️
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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Book Twitter! A thread…I’ve long been working on the idea of setting up a very fun literacy centre in my northern town to help people discover the joy of reading and also of making books. I can SEE the yellow front door in my mind and today I found the perfect spot….
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Absolutely crying this afternoon after receiving some fan mail and having an actual conversation with one of my idols, India Arie. (I based the colours of this painting on one of her gigs). The world is upside down, my entire life is made. Ahhhh!
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It's
#NationalIllustrationDay
today, so do permit me a few more posts than usual. Finally, a holiday for us doodlers! Thank you
@qbcentre
for organising!
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At least once a month, I think of an idea or two for a picture book for adults; poetic visual tales for big humans who‘ve been through life experiences and still see beauty and synchronicity and wonder. Someone lend me the publishing paper to print such stories ❤️
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Have you ever felt like a fish out of water? I felt that way for most of my life, didn't know how to fit in. Now I don't mind though, I just look for those other flying fish like me, who really get me. We are so pretty in the sky together.
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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Was described this week by someone I didn’t really know as having ‘too many ideas’ and it made me laugh, cringe & remember similar notes in school report cards. Probably not a bad thing to have in the realm of story-making as it turns out, as if I could turn it off anyway. 🤷🏽♀️
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Some nights I’m like a DJ taking drawing requests from my children. We have a whale of a time.
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Hello across all this darkness, friends- hold onto the inner light if you can. One day at a time, ok? One day at a time. ✨❤️
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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Deeply enamoured with this colour palette right now after an art and writing residency on the Isle of Mull. If I did interior decor, I'd call it 'Hebridean Sunrise'. 🐋🎨☀️
#kidlit
#Kidlitart
#mull
@CalMacFerries
@VisitMull_Iona
@HWDT_org
@VisitScotland
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I set a goal to find ways to work together with scientists & conservationists to try and use my art to inspire people's thinking about our planet & cosmos. Had some very exciting chats with scientists and musicians this month and can't wait to see where it all goes. ✨🐋🌍
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Is there an illustration job that is a bit like making a magical realism style travel guide to Scotland/the UK? If so…🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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Got the ‘rona so off to hide in my teapot for a week. Send cheesy dad jokes because being trapped indoors alone and ill with small people running amok is already very loud 🥰
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Painting experiments all leaning a bit colourist lately 🎨
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Praying for Peace 🕊️
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Tentatively exploring sensitive ways to illustrate stories about adverse childhood experiences
#kidlit
#kidlitart
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Every day, I wake up so grateful that there is a job for an overly-idealist, big-feeling, non-linear thinking, sensitive soul and that job is ‘children’s books’. Let’s go 🎨✏️✨
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