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Vivian French
Co-founder of www.picturehooks.org.uk (a project supporting illustrators) also illustration tutor and mentor. Instagram: french.vivian
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Vivian French
@vivianfrench75
Old, but still writing. Co-founder of www.picturehooks.org.uk, illustration tutor and mentor. Loves chatting over coffee!
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Unravelling
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Writerly Distractions: the compromised Web
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Every woman should know how to use an ironing board.
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Wishes Three
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There. That’s the manufactured non-issue sorted.
My new favorite restroom sign
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I’ll be doing this in north London on 14th June, please come!
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What we learn by heart no one can take from us.
Here’s George Steiner on “Learning by Heart”
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“Kids can’t relate to adult characters.”
Setting aside how wrong this statement is (which shockingly comes from people working at publishing houses), how about we start a good, long thread of beloved children’s books titles with adult main characters.
When they were published is not relevant. Great books are great books.
Here are two:
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MOM! The celebration of caregivers continues. 3.30.27
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The colours of Bologna! They look so much warmer in my photos than my drawings… need to try to remedy that
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App-mare
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Burning Down the House
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May 2
Five alarm fire
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Apr 25
Goodbye to all That
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Does anyone else spend the ‘someone will let you in when the meeting starts’ phase stressing they’ve got the wrong time, the wrong day, the wrong link?? Or is it just me?
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It never gets old, seeing your new book for the first time! So excited to share this one with you all. May 12th!
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Blossom
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I drew this on a 1.5 hour phone call with my sweet grandmother.
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Apr 4
A gentler world is possible
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Consider giving the bees your undivided attention.
Your Attention Is Worth More Than You Think
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Work hard, celebrate hard! So thrilled the bookshop I quit my job four years ago to found is now London’s independent bookshop of the year
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So little to reunite us 😉❤️✌🏻😍🥰
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This is today at 12 if you want to come along!
Scrape this, AI!
I made a banner for a demo tomorrow against the helter skelter arrival of AI in our lives, trained unrestrained on the copyright work of living, breathing human creatives. Follow Against the Box for lots of updates on the fight to retain copyright
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Mar 7
Forget -we-not
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Dec 20
So you want to be a picture book illustrator?
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First part of 2026
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THIS IS GREAT: Sir Ian McKellen destroys Trump on Colbert last night by performing a Shakespeare monologue from Sir Thomas More. Fits the historical moment exactly. Make sure this gets around!
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I made a pigeon appreciation post.. ❣️🐦
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Bearing Up
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Jan 11
January diary comics week one
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I realised I forgot to share yesterday’s Daily Drawing. Sorry! Meet Elodie!
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Got married this morning. I hope we can bring a little light to your day. 💗
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I am so pleased by the response I’ve had to the idea of a monthly creativity meet up. I’m going to call this Be More Human as in pledging to create every month, and hopefully encourage others to do the same, it’s my small way of resisting Ai. I don’t want to read anything written by Ai - I don’t care how much some people claim it helps with editing or drafting. I only want to read stuff written entirely by humans. I want to read the feelings, and experience the perfect imperfections of the hum…
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I made these - they’ve taken fucking ages - ping pong ball head angels- (not for sale obviously) haha -
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Dec 20
The turning year
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