Recent works | Charlie Johnson

My work for Patrician Press... Every so often I get a request for a cover illustration from Patrician Press. It may be very specific eg. ‘Link 9/11 to 1930s Berlin’, which was difficult): https://patricianpress.com/book/darkness/ or an illustration to suggest the depredations of war in both India and Britain: https://patricianpress.com/book/war-changes-everything/ https://patricianpress.com/book/midnight-legacy/ (this was easier as I was able to find or create images for a collage which suggest the range of these topics.) The most recent request was for well- known Italian writer of detective fiction, Valerio Varesi, whose stories are usually set in and around the River Po, and the people who live and work there. This is an area we are very familiar with. When we met the author it was suggested that I could do the cover illustration. I did some research looking at Po illustrations bridges, floods weather etc. My first idea was to try and...