Jessie Bayliss

For The Telegraph's 21 November 2019 Christmas edition, I was commissioned to illustrate a twelve-page Luxury Gift Guide built around a festive nostalgic mice theme running across the whole supplement, working with art director Mark Neil.

The mice ran through the guide as a continuous cast, tying the twelve pages together as a single illustrated world. I worked the drawings in pen and ink, giving the characters the Victorian dressed-animal feel of British nursery illustration, and scaled each piece so the mouse tableaux held up as full-page openers as well as smaller spot images.

The guide ran with The Telegraph's Christmas coverage on 21 November 2019 and was distributed nationally with the paper.