IN THE NEWS: Congratulations to Sterling Hundley, the overall winner of the V&A Illustration Awards. Hundely took home the award for best book
illustration for his artwork in the Folio Society’s edition of Treasure Island. Judges described his work as “richly coloured, atmospheric and stylistically consistent’,‘appropriately sinister’ and‘bold, brave and powerful”. (Read the entire press release here.) The awards ceremony took place on May 18 at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Learn more about this American artist and his method – my profile on Hundely, appeared on the Fine Books & Collections Blog in January.