Architecture, Cities and History
Retired illustrator Stephen Conlin carried out numerous commissions for the National Trust, English Heritage, Historic Environment Scotland and Historic Royal Palaces. He worked by consulting scholars and using the available documentary evidence in order to enhance the understanding and appreciation of historic buildings.
Reconstruction drawings
Reconstruction drawings can show you how these important sites, landmarks and objects would have appeared when first built: in this way you have the chance to see how their designers and architects may originally have intended them to be. These drawings evoke the atmosphere of the past and are accompanied on this website by information about the buildings and objects.
Image: detail of an artwork showing Dunfermline Abbey church during the funeral of Robert the Bruce in 1329. Commissioned by Historic Environment Scotland.
Publications
Publications featuring important British and Irish architectural and historical sites, using detailed illustrations by Stephen Conlin.
These cards are available to view and on this website. For sales, please use the contact form.
Book: 'Dublin - The Story of a City'
Book: 'Dublin - The Story of a City' with main text by Peter Harbison, and detailed drawings and extended captions by Stephen Conlin.
Dublin was founded as a Scandinavian settlement, linked by kinship to Norway; then it became a medieval town that formed part of a Norman sphere of influence across Western Europe. By the eighteenth century, it was a ‘polite’ city of the British Empire, before gaining independence and developing into a bustling, modern European capital.
Hardback: 240 pages/ Size: 280x240 mm/ ISBN: 9781847178138. For sales website click here.
How a cutaway drawing develops
The first stage is a pencil layout, working out priorities, then detail is added and inked, using a technical pen. The final stage is colouring with watercolour and pencil texture.