Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone Mini-Gallery
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Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone Mini-Gallery
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- The Elf King’s Banquet
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- Cats sketch from the Johnstone twins archives
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- Painting idea for a frontispiece for ‘I Capture the Castle’ by Dodie Smith (unused)
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- Chinese Dragon
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- The American Quilt
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- Sir Lancelot
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- Two Scottish Children
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- Beauty the Beast
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- Angel Children (endpaper design)
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- Red-headed Angel detail
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- The Woodcutter
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- The Unicorn
13 Comments
Kadie · 3 September 2024 at 1:31 am
I have a large foil framed “Mr Mole Proposes to Thumbelina”. It is in great condition and has the signature in the bottom right. Just wondered if this would be worth anything? It came from my nan and grandad.
Daisy · 8 September 2024 at 8:33 am
Hi Kadie – your best bet for current value is to check eBay. There were a lot of these foiled prints made available at the time, but they did not hold up well when exposed to sunlight, so the good condition will help. Best of luck!
Sunil · 16 April 2024 at 3:22 pm
Hi Everyone,
I grew up in the Caribbean in very rural and poor circumstances in the 1980. There were kids in school who were fortunate enough to have the books of fairy tales and nursery rhymes and I would peek over their shoulders in awe of the illustrations by the Johnstone twins. A kindergarten teacher brought in the book of nursery rhymes once and I think she noticed my delight and made a point to show me the book during recess time while all the other kids were outside playing. Talk about lasting core memories. Anyway, moved to Canada at the age of 13 and grew up to become a successful children’s therapist in Toronto. Those illustrations made such an impression on me, I began searching them out about 15yrs ago. I now own about 40 original illustrations from the twins, including the Beauty and the Beast one above! One day I will take the time to post them on a website or maybe create a small gallery display for interested people to visit! Love seeing this community here. Wishing you all well.
Daisy · 10 June 2024 at 7:58 am
Thanks for sharing such a lovely story. I can’t wait to see the artwork on your website and the gallery idea sounds wonderful ❤️
Catherine Parker · 14 January 2023 at 3:22 am
I have a large framed painting by the two sisters of Hans Christian Andersen’ s Dreams done on foil effect. Do you know the date of the original painting? Many thanks.
Nichole Smith · 2 January 2023 at 6:22 am
I have 2 Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone pieces, Im wondering how do I find out if they’re originals? Thank you!
Olivia Wright · 19 November 2022 at 9:30 pm
I am clearing up my Mum’s house and discovered myths from many lands by Roger Lancelyn Green …. Illustrated by the Grahame Johnstone twins
Transported straight back to fairy land X
What amazing illustrators ❤️
Daisy · 21 November 2022 at 9:20 am
What a delightful discovery ❤️
Sammy · 9 October 2022 at 5:09 am
I would love to know how many of their pieces were dufex printed – I’ve had ‘Mr Mole proposes to Thumbelina’ and ‘The Arrival of the Snow Queen’ since they were new (and in fact they were presents for my arrival in the world!) in the mid 80s.
shelley wilkinson · 22 December 2020 at 5:04 am
Hello
I have been very lucky to purchase – on ebay, of all places, an original painting by Anne Grahame Johnstone. It is of a Fifer. Just a lone figure with no back ground. No history was known about this painting, just the date of when it was painted, 1974.
I would be interested to know if it is an illustration from one of her books, I only have a few and cannot see it in any of these.
My father used to trace the twins illustrations for me to colour when I was a child so i’m thrilled to own it!
Could I supply a photo somehow?
Thank you for your time, I hope you safe and well under the current circumstances.
Regards
Shelley
Daisy · 22 December 2020 at 5:45 am
Oh, how wonderful! I’ll shoot you an email so you can send through a photo and I’ll see if I can help 🙂
Anne Craig · 4 March 2021 at 12:45 am
I received a lovely Anne Grahame Johnstone painting today, from eBay. Its titled “Mary finds the Secret Garden”. I’ve been collecting Grahame Johnstone books since the 1970’s. I was impressed by your database of all the books. You had one I’ve never seen, the “Tales from Animal Land”, and I’ve been looking out for the Olympic book, on and off for years! I have a few of their paintings, including the Woodcutter one, and some Bill and Ben pics.
Daisy · 3 April 2021 at 7:24 pm
Hi Anne! Apologies for the late response – there was an issue with my website alerting me to new comments. Your book and painting collection sounds wonderful – it’s so lovely to “meet” another collector! I could email you some scans from the Olympic book if you’d like? (I have only ever seen it in a library, I don’t have a copy myself either.) The images are in b&w, but it’s always so exciting to find new work! Someone posted on here that they were sure they had seen a Robin Hood book printed from the Finding Out magazines, but I’ve never seen that – have you? Warmest wishes, Dx