Your Weekend cover
Canon Media awards-nominated illustration for Your Weekend magazine, featuring an interview with Michael Palin.
The Bookshop
A watercolour painting used on the cover of Your Weekend, to illustrate the main feature about favourite bookstores.
Road Rage
A pastiche of a famous comic cover from the 1930s, used to illustrate a Your Weekend cover story about road rage.
Booms-a-Daisy
An illustration from Booms-a-daisy, by Jill Eggleton, about a yellow-and-black dressed lady attracting the unwanted attention of a bumblebee.
: 9781927307885
Global Education Systems.
Kea: Curiouser and Curiouser
“Alistair Hughes’ illustrations steal the show on the double page spreads. We get a flash of the kea’s burnt orange-coloured under-wings on several pages. And plenty of pictures of the Kea’s cheeky playful nature.”
(KidsBooksNZ)
: 9781869665111
New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd.
Ice Breaker
One of over thirty watercolour paintings produced for Ice Breaker, a ‘New Zealand Society of Authors Heritage Award’ nominated book about Shackleton’s 1914-1917 Antarctic expedition.
“Hughes’s drawings are superb, you feel cold just looking at them – which excites and keeps young readers on the edge of their seats…”
(Canvas magazine)
: New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd.
Snapper: The Real Story
“The illustrations are clear and vibrant, with plenty of other sea creatures and plants highlighting the snapper’s habitat. My five-year-old enjoyed spotting the seahorses, jellyfish and flounder.”
(The Sapling)
:9781760793340
New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd.
The King's Medal
“The illustrations by Alistair Hughes are full of detail and realistic, with lots of emotion… (bringing) the atmosphere, environment and emotion to life with his drawings in intricate detail. Whether it is a sky full of parachutes or two lonely soldiers rowing into an inky night, Hughes does a brilliant job of transporting the reader right into the action.”
(Rebekah Lyell, NZ Booklovers)
: 9781990003349
Upstart Press Ltd
The Monarch Butterfly - New Migrant
“With factually correct information alongside impressive artwork, this book makes a great way for children to learn about the life cycle of this butterfly species and how they may have arrived in NZ.”
(Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust)
: 9781990003660
Upstart Press Ltd.
Ernest Rutherford: Just an Ordinary Boy
“Rutherford’s story is vividly brought to life by illustrator Alistair Hughes who masterfully paints a picture of the era Rutherford grew up in.”
(Rebekah Lyell, NZ Booklovers)
: 9781990003684
Upstart Press Ltd.
The New Zealand Night Sky
“The writing is within our reach and Alistair’s illustrations are pitch perfect. I feel like I am holding a patch of stars to ponder upon in the middle of the day – the dark and twinkling double-page spreads are informative, fascinating, inspiring.”
Paula Green, Poetry Box
: 9781776940110
Upstart Press Ltd.
Beatrice Hill Tinsley: Queen of the Cosmos
“Hughes’s illustrations are largely in the realistic style… but in a few instances he has created some extremely captivating images that break free of this realism. The glorious cover image is one of them…”
(Annelies Judson, The Sapling)
: 9781776940059
Upstart Press Ltd.
New Zealand Weather
A page spread from my 2025 book: New Zealand Weather.
“On his professional website, Shoreline Creative, Alistair Hughes wittily describes his work as ‘eloquently composed pictures and well-drawn words’. That is also a perfect description of New Zealand Weather.”
(Magpies magazine)
: 9781776940813
Upstart Press Ltd.
Visitations
“While his impressive portfolio speaks for itself, it is Alistair’s professionalism, his open, honest, yet respectful approach that truly sets him apart. I simply cannot recommend him and his work enough.”
(Daniela Dragas, author)
:9781836281627
Troubador Publishing
Rocket Man
An interior illustration for Rocket Man: William Pickering by Maria Gill.
:9781776891832
David Bateman Ltd.
WBD
A detail from my cover illustration for British magazine We Belong Dead #46
