About

I'm an author/illustrator by day (based in London, UK). By night and tea-break I build and play instruments.
I’ve been tinkering with instruments in one way or another since I was 12 years old. Even younger if you go by the photographic evidence.


I have, by now, just about worked out which way round to hold them, and these days I mostly play Nyckelharpa and banjo.


Recently I started to take the building of banjos more seriously than the couple of kits and restorations that I had done over the years.
Follow my progress over on the blog.

Contact me via joel(at)joelstewart(dot)co(dot)uk

If you want more info about my work as an author and illustrator (and sometimes director of animation) -you can find out about that stuff on my Illustrator/Author blog).