Finding out information on an Illustrator?

Question

I'm trying to track down more information on a uk illustrator called Alun Hood. I've got a black and white illustrated poster from 1968, based on the Beatles lyrics 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', with his name on the bottom of it. Google only drags up some details on his past work, so I was trying to find any reference sites on modern day illustrators / artists?

Answer 1

Hey Ben,
Here are some of his recent works, as recent as 1996. See the second web site.

HOOD, ALUN
_ Strange Bedfellows by Herbert Burkholz (Headline, Jan ’89)
_ Urn Burial by Robert Westall (Puffin Plus, Jan ’89)
_ Arthur C. Clarke’s Chronicles of the Strange and Mysterious by John Fairley & Simon Welfare (Grafton, Apr ’89)
_ A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones (Teens, Apr ’89)
_ Masques Two ed. by J. N. Williamson (Futura, Jun ’89)
_ The Bewitching of Alison Allbright by Alan Davidson (Puffin, Nov ’89)
_ Mystery by Peter Straub (Grafton Overseas, 1990)
_ Mystery by Peter Straub (Grafton, Feb ’90)
_ The Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl (Grafton, Apr ’90)
_ Escape by Deluge by Edel Wignell (The Bodley Head, May ’90)
_ Mystery by Peter Straub (Grafton Overseas, Jun ’90)
_ The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (Penguin/Puffin, Feb ’91)
_ Mystery by Peter Straub (Grafton, Apr ’91)
* Brain Damage by Herbert Burkholz (Headline, Feb ’92)
_ The Haunting by Margaret Mahy (Puffin, Nov ’92)
_ Urn Burial by Robert Westall (Puffin, May ’95)
_ The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy (Puffin, Jan ’96)

I did a search on Family Search.com to see if he has deceased, the good news is he is not on that site. So, he probably is just an illustrator that does not like to expound on his work with his personal web site.

There were 173 A. Hoods found in the white pages, they won't let me specify the whole first name.

Answer 2

This poster was included as an insert in the catalogue to the Sunday Mirror ( a British newspaper) exhibition Children's Art '68. Alun Hood was then 16 and listed as coming from Wymondham in Norfolk. His work was 'Highly Commended.' We were taken to see the exhibition on a school art trip to London. I loved his drawing and kept it on my wall for a long time. I still have my copy. It's nice to know that such a promising boy became a professional artist. (submitted 2015)