Jonathan McHugh is a freelance
artist and illustrator living and working in Northern Ireland.
In the past 10 years he has illustrated extensively for
advertising, design and editorial clients in the U.K., Germany,
Japan and Ireland.
After spending several years working as a scenic artist and muralist
on various large-scale themed construction projects in Europe, Ireland and the
UK, he decided to follow his muse back to painting
and illustrating by returning home to Northern Ireland...
His work has won several awards including a gold
award at the Society of
Artists’ Agents Illustration Awards in London in 2004, and a bronze at the 2007 Publicity Association of Northern Ireland (PANI) awards in Belfast.
He also had work shortlisted at the SAA Awards in 2005 and 2006, and at the 2007 APA Creative Awards in London's
Design Museum.
His paintings and illustrations have been exhibited in Japan, London,
Dublin and Belfast, and many have even found homes there.
He lives by an old windmill on top of a hill overlooking Belfast
Lough on the East coast of Ireland and surrounds himself with scraps
of paper in an attempt to keep warm. Sometimes he scribbles on them.
Clients include:
National Trust,
easyJet,
BBC,
Allied Bakeries,
Allied Irish Bank,
First Trust Bank,
Public Prosecution Service (NI),
Hankyu (Japan),
Land's End (Germany),
Redactive Publishing (London),
Centaur Communications (London),
Personnel Publications (London),
Transport for London,
Quarto Children's Books (London),
Ulster Bank,
Bank of Ireland,
Workers Educational Association,
Northern
Ireland Voluntary Trust,
Queen's University Belfast,
Action Cancer,
Phoenix Natural Gas,
Trocaire,
Toyota,
Hennessey,
Belleek Pottery,
Marble Arch Caves,
Livestock & Meat Commission,
Department of Agriculture
and Rural Development,
and many others...
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