Northern Illustration Prize 2019

Here's my entry for the Northern Illustration Prize 2019. The theme was ‘Monkey’ and I chose to illustrate the legend of the Hartlepool monkey. He (or she) was the sole survivor of a shipwrecked French ship during the Napoleonic Wars, and was hanged as a spy. I didn't win the competition, but I was honoured to be shortlisted.

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