"[2] Hearld created artwork for the sets of the 2010 film Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.
[5][6] In 2021, a Christmas card by Hearld featuring a "hand-coloured winter thrush" was included in the exhibition Christmas Greetings by Modern British Artists at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester; over one hundred cards were displayed there, including from John Piper, Edward Bawden, John Craxton, and Ben Nicholson.
[8] In 2023, Hearld collaborated with the fashion house Moynat and the British brand A State of Nature.
[2] In 2012, Hearld received the British Design Award for his Harvest Hare wallpaper; readers of The Daily Telegraph and Elle Decoration chose him and five other designers from a shortlist of 30 artworks created over the past year.
[9] Hearld's house in York is full of items he has collected, "feathered from cellar to rafters with a lifetime's happy, haphazard accumulation.