Shortlisted for Best Artwork by the ‘TOLKIEN SOCIETY AWARDS’ for ‘Days of the King’
Delighted to have been Shortlisted for Best Artwork by the [...]
Turin, Italy – Sentieri Tolkieniani 2023!
Jay Johnstone was guest guests of Sentieri Tolkieniani 2023! He [...]
Oxonmoot 2022 St Annes, Oxford
Oxonmoot – what a hoot. Just got to say what [...]
The Art of Jay Johnstone, Part Two
What happens when Tolkien’s Middle-earth cycle becomes a holy script? [...]
The Athens Tolkien Symposium May 2022
The Athens Tolkien Symposium May 2022 The Athens Tolkien Symposium [...]
The Art of Jay Johnstone, Part One
What happens when a Tolkien artist paints from inside Middle-earth? [...]
Long awaited publication of Osric the Extraordinary Owl by Brian Sibley and Pauline Baynes
Osric the Extraordinary Owl resulted from the collaboration of two friends: artist and illustrator Pauline Baynes and writer, dramatist and broadcaster Brian Sibley. It was a friendship spanning more than two-and-a-half decades, with many shared interests, among them the work of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis famously illustrated by Pauline and the subject of acclaimed dramatisations by Brian.
‘Ut pictura tractatio – Some Thoughts on Jay Johnstone’s Isildur’s Bane’
I first met Jay Johnstone surrounded by his artwork at the Return of the Ring conference in Loughborough in August 2012 – and was struck by two things.
