Derbyshire born, Suffolk bred. I’m Thomas and I now live in Oxfordshire with my wife Emma and our five cats, six chickens, three bunnies and fish. I’m a landscape artist and novelist. My two main inspirations are the work of Edward Ardizzone and Rex Whistler, and my style is somewhere between the two.
I work principally in Indian Ink and Polychromos artists’ pencils and alongside my personal projects take commissions, which have included maps and book illustration.
As a published author, books are my passion, and I am currently working on a project to “illustrate myself around the country” and create The Booklover’s Guide to Bookshops, because, books and stories and words are important, and bookshops are universally beautiful places.
The illustrations included here are all available as originals or prints along with many more at www.teshepherdart.com.