New illustration! For the cover of the Magazine "Sonah Magazin", summer 2025 issue

My first illustration on prehistory (and on the cover)!  A landscape from the prehistoric Carboniferous period (360-300 millions years ago), when the world was dominated by immense forests of giant ferns and horsetails. Oxygen levels were extremely high, and the swamps were traveled by enormous insects and amphibians.

Shown here are two giant Meganeura dragonflies (as large as modern hawks) and a huge two-meter long proterogyrinus like amphibian.

I am so grateful to Anika Meyer for allowing me to illustrate the cover of her beautiful magazine Sonah  https://sonah-verlag.de/

The original watercolor and gouache painting on the work table next to the Magazines

Some illustrations among those published in various issues of the beautiful Swiss Magazine "Lebenslust Emmental Magazin"

The illustration published in the new issue of the Magazine "Lebenslust Emmental" number 65, autumn 2024.

The illustration is for Sandra Rutschi's beautiful new short story "Die Baeume wachsen nicht in den Himmel" ("The trees don't grow into the sky").

The Magazine is always beautiful with wonderful photos: it is impossible not to want to immerse yourself in the wonderful landscapes, villages and woods of the Bernese Emmental!

           A  Bernese Mountain Dog and some illustrations of botanical essences and flowers

Illustration of wildflowers (poppy, dandelion, red clover, plantain, bromes ... among others)

Semolina pudding (Griessbrei), with recipe and ingredients (cinnamon!), for the short story by Sandra Rutschi

The original paintings for the illustrations (always painted in watercolor and gouache on Arches paper) next to the Magazine

Some photos taken in the field looking for the wildflowers for the illustration

New! Floral illustrations for the Publisher Sonah Verlag

   First illustration: wild mallow, cuckoo flower and elderflower (and butterflies)

Second illustration: lily of the valley, forget-me-not, a couple of field herbs (e.g. wild oats), common daisy (and a new couple of butterflies)

Third illustration: field poppy, tansy and marguerite (instead of butterflies, or butterfly and moth, this time a bumblebee). 

An original watercolour illustration alongside the three greeting cards

Here are the new floral-themed  illustrations for the publisher Sonah Verlag. Many thanks as always to Ms. Anika Meyer for her valuable advice and Art Direction!

The illustrations are published on wonderful greeting cards and  represent local floral essences, accompanied by refined captions with their names in the dialect of the Saarland region, and a series of information - on the back of the cards - on each botanical species.

You can see and find them here, on the Sonah website Sonah Verlag and Magazine and Blumengrüße auf Saarländisch – Gruß-/Glückwunschkarte

If I can afford some advice and opinion to friends who live in Germany, I'd say run and buy the Magazine "Sonah Magazin", it's wonderful, don't miss it! ;-) 

New illustration for "Lebenslust Emmental Magazin", issue summer 2022

Partially two-page illustration for Sandra Rutschi's new short story "Wer einen Sumpf trockenlegen will, darf nicht die Froesche fragen".

The wonderful cover of "Lebenslust Emmental", which reflects the beautiful landscapes of this enchanting region.

On the new spring issue of the magazine "Lebenslust Emmental"

Illustration for the new story by Sandra Rutschi: "Kleinvieh macht auch Mist"

                                                           

The Autumn Issue of "Sonah" Magazine (with my illustration of Trier in roman age)

The wonderful Magazine "Sonah. Das Saarland und die Region neu entdecken"

                           My illustration with the city of Trier at the end of the 3rd century AD
 

New illustrations for the new "Lebenslust Emmental" magazine: Beavers in Switzerland (and more)

 

       

                

Explanatory illustration of a Beaver's Lodge, with its interior, the various entrances under the water surface, the surrounding environment. Published in "Lebenslust Emmental" of March 2021 with an article on European beavers in Switzerland and the Emmental.

The cover of the spring issue of the magazine and, next to it, the small illustration published to accompany the novel of the Author Sandra Rutschi (I am happy to have also been able to collaborate with the new direction of the Magazine!).

Lebenslust Emmental Magazin

Issue 50 of "Lebenslust Emmental" with my new illustrations

Bullfinch and sea buckthorn in a winter landscape

                                                                                                                      

The painted artworks and the "Lebenslust Emmental" Magazine. 

The December issue of "Lebenslust Emmental" Magazine with the article on the thousand virtues of sea buckthorn.

 

New illustrations! Published in the September issue of Lebenslust Emmental Magazine

 

Cornelian Cherry - Kornelkirsche

Detail of the illustration with dormouse and cornelian cherries

Charlotte with cornelian cherry jam

The December issue of "Lebenslust Emmental" (with my illustations)!

Juniper

European Badger among the Junipers 

Artwork and Magazine side by side

The new issue of "Lebenslust Emmental" with my illustrations

  The September issue of "Lebenslust Emmental", 
 dedicated to lingonberry, next to my illustrations on the drawing board

The lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Preiselbeere)

The western Capercaillie

A typical recipe for lingonberry, jam

New illustrations published in "Lebenslust Emmental"

The cover of the Magazine, March 2019

New illustrations: a hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), a hazel branch (and other), published in the Swiss magazine "Lebenslust Emmental", dedicated to the beautiful valley near Bern.
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Venetian Handgunner vs Early Landsknecht; Battle of Calliano (1487)

Venetian Handgunner

Early Landsknecht






The two illustrations are in "Clausewitz" Magazine

Roman Soldiers, Celts and Germans

Roman Legionary, 60 AD

Roman "Imagifer", Auxilia Palatina, 286-300 AD

Here the Magazine "Miroque" with the illustrations of Roman Soldiers:

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Britannic Warrior, 1st century AD

Germanic Warrior, 2nd century AD