Illustration – francescaross.co.uk

Chocolate bar commission

I was asked to fulfil a commission for the installation of Bishop Helen-Ann of Newcastle. She had asked NCEA Dukes secondary school to design a customised wrapper for the Tony’s Chocolonely bars to be distributed during the service. The design represents Bishop Helen-Ann’s journey so far starting from Coldingham where she was baptised and features a koru, the Maori word for an unfurling fern which represents new life, because of +Helen-Ann’s time spent in New Zealand, and a Celtic motif to represent +Helen-Ann’s new episcopal area in the Diocese of Newcastle. I took the original design, brightened the colours and adjusted the text layout so that the design was ready to send to the Tony’s Chocolonely website.

Northumbrian Rose

I was asked to design the artwork by Judith, the owner of Fine Fettle
Fibres, for her newly commissioned yarn, Northumbrian Rose, which is a beautifully soft blend of Blue Faced Leicester wool from Hexam, alpaca from Old Felton, and 40% rose fibres. The label also includes the black and white Northumbrian tartan, and picked up on the colours of all eight yarns in the original range.

It can be seen at https://www.finefettlefibres.uk/yarn/fine-fettle-fibres-northumbrian-rose

Celtic Daily Prayer

I was commissioned to design and draw the illustrations for the section dividers for Books 1 and 2 of Celtic Daily Prayer published by HarperCollins in September 2015. This is an example of one of the dividers.

I also designed and drew the artwork for the covers.

Parish Pump

I contribute to a website, ParishPump.co.uk, that provides articles and illustrations for people across the world who produce parish magazines (including England, Scotland and Ireland, the UK, Kentucky, Tenerife, Brazil, the Outer Hebrides, Ypres, Rome, Bern, Ankara, Kowloon, Gibraltar, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Borneo and China).

The editor of the website wrote ‘Our artist Francesca is outstanding, and her
front covers each month are incredibly popular’.