Jon klassen

Since October of 2004, Nucleus has strived to be a welcoming gathering place for the art loving community by offering quality art, art-related goods, and rarities. Focusing primarily on gallery exhibits, we have also had benefit auctions, product signings, music events, and artist lectures. Having exhibited both local artists and artists from abroad, and catering to an international customer base, we offer an extensive collection of original contemporary, illustrated, graphic, commercial…

“Here is the cover for "The Skull". It's a 115 pages, told in five parts, and it's about a girl named Otilla who runs away from home and finds a house in the woods with a skull living in it. It comes out July 2023 from @Candlewick and I am pretty excited about it 💀”

Jon Klassen is an amazing illustrator. He creates beautifully moving and yet quietly mesmerising work that is quite different to anything I’ve seen before. I love how his work is both simplis…

The relative plausibility of impossible beings tells you a lot about how the mind works.

No children responded to my essay on the “adult problem” with kids books, somewhat proving the point. Adults aplenty chimed in, many of them people who work in children’s lit and …

“drew some skull stuff last year & just made a folder for them.”

I'm shy. Posting about myself and promoting my work wasn’t something I was comfortable doing, so I usually take the less public route.