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Maisie Paradise Shearring
Illustrator
Picture Books
Maisie Paradise Shearring is an illustrator and author based in Hull. She loves making books, drawing from observation, and inventing characters in…
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Stacie Swift
Illustrator
Non-Fiction
Stacie is an illustrator, writer, coffee drinker and mum of three. Her work focuses on positivity, self-care and mental wellbeing. She loves to…
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Megan Brewis
Illustrator
Picture Books
Megan Brewis grew up in South Africa, where she worked as a textile designer before moving to England. She enrolled on the MA in Children’s Book…
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Salomey Doku
Author
Illustrator
Children’s
Picture Books
Salomey Doku is a self-taught author-illustrator from Leeds, England. Originally trained in architecture, in which she worked for over 3 years, she…
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David Barrow
Illustrator
Picture Books
David has been a shelf-stacker, a library assistant, a call-centre worker, a civil servant and a printer, so obviously it was only a matter of time…
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Rachel Suzanne
Illustrator
Picture Books
Rachel Suzanne graduated from Birmingham City University with a First Class Honours degree in Illustration. She loves exploring texture in her…
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Ana María Ardila
Illustrator
Picture Books
Ana María is a Designer and Illustrator born in Bogotá, Colombia. She developed an early fascination with art and creativity within the vibrant…
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Rose Blake
Illustrator
Picture Books
Rose Blake is an illustrator and artist making drawings and pictures from a railway arch by a canal in London. She studied at Kingston University…
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Jovilee Burton
Illustrator
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Jovilee Burton is a digital artist based in Central London. Passionate about female empowerment, her work depicts women of colour in their day to…
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Sketchy Muma
Illustrator
Non-Fiction
Anna Lewis is an illustrator and artist living by the sea in Cornwall with her husband Ray and her three-year-old daughter Poppy. After Poppy’s…
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Sarah Coomer
Illustrator
Unpublished
Children’s
Originally from Yorkshire, Sarah is a largely self taught illustrator with a long standing love of books and reading. After studying an English…
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Rachel Seago
Illustrator
Picture Books
After studying translation and interpretation of French and Spanish at university, Rachel found a job in a translation office but quickly decided…
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Chantelle and Burgen Thorne
Illustrator
Picture Books
Multi-award-winning illustration team Chantelle and Burgen Thorne are eclectic bookworms who delight in the magic of stories. In the rolling green…
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Tijana Lukovic
Illustrator
Children’s
Tijana`s paintings and illustrations are inspired by the magical and metaphysical realms, they contain traces of folklore, fairy tale, and…
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Mojca Novak
Illustrator
Children’s
Picture Books
Mojca is a Slovene artist whose pseudonym is Mocculere for her artwork and writing. Although Mojca now works full-time as a freelance illustrator,…
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Hrefna Bragadottir
Illustrator
Picture Books
Hrefna was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, and has been drawing pictures ever since she was old enough to pick up a pencil. She graduated in 2004 from…
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Em Cosh
Author
Illustrator
Picture Books
Em Cosh (they/them) is an illustrator and writer living in Margate, UK. They grew up on a small farm in Shropshire which inspired a love of nature…
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Tom Tinn-Disbury
Author
Illustrator
Children’s
Picture Books
When Tom studied animation at university, he realised that the best part of the process was writing stories and drawing characters and not…
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You Jung Byun
Illustrator
Picture Books
You Jung Byun is a Korean artist, award-winning illustrator and an author. Born in Queens, New York, she grew up in America, Korea and Japan. She…
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Rochelle Falconer
Illustrator
Picture Books
Rochelle was born in Jamaica but grew up in Birmingham, the oldest of six kids, raised by her single mum. As a teenager her head was always in a…
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Matt Spink
Illustrator
Picture Books
Matt’s first picture book, Some Birds, is a joyful, colourful and stylish celebration of birds of all shapes and sizes. With its rhythmic text…
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Victoria Crossman
Illustrator
Children’s
After working in film costume for a number of years on projects ranging from Harry Potter and Finding Neverland to Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and…
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Navya Raju
Illustrator
Picture Books
Navya Raju is Illustrator-Storyteller based in Hyderabad, a multicultural city in India, with an academic background in Architecture. After her…
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Sophie Green
Illustrator
Unpublished
Non-Fiction
Children’s
Picture Books
Sophie Green is a multi-award-winning wildlife & conservation artist and illustrator, who specialises in capturing the photorealistic details…
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Alan O’Rourke
Illustrator
Picture Books
Alan has worked as a designer, creative director and marketer for over 15 years winning many awards including a BAFTA nomination. He is now making…
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Clare Fennell
Author
Illustrator
Picture Books
Having left university with an illustration degree, Clare worked as a designer and studio manager in the greetings card industry for fifteen years.…
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Kevin Waldron
Illustrator
Picture Books
Kevin Waldron first studied in Dublin at D.I.T and then did a Masters at Kingston University in London. He worked on his first book, Mr Peek &…
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Julian Beresford
Illustrator
Picture Books
Julian Beresford is a freelance illustrator and writer based in South Yorkshire, England. He grew up in the southwest of London, where he spent…
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Julian Charlton
Illustrator
Children’s
Picture Books
Julian was an avid doodler during his younger years but never really continued as he got older. That said, a few years ago he picked up a pencil…
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Alex Latimer
Illustrator
Picture Books
Alex is a South African writer and illustrator living in Cape Town. He has a degree in English and Philosophy and has written and illustrated for…
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Barry Falls
Illustrator
Picture Books
Barry Falls is an award-winning author and illustrator living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Since graduating from Ulster University in 2005, his…
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DOM&INK
Illustrator
Non-Fiction
Picture Books
DOM&INK (Dominic Evans) is a freelance illustrator and merperson based in London, from not-so-sunny Bolton, via Narnia. Growing up with a love…
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Sara Rhys
Illustrator
Children’s
Picture Books
Sara Rhys is a mixed media artist and published illustrator of several children’s books, living and working in the Scottish Borders. She explores…
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Nicola Kinnear
Illustrator
Picture Books
Originally from Dartford, Nicola studied for her BA in Illustration and Animation at Kingston University, graduating with her exquisitely drawn and…
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Georgia Cowley
Author
Illustrator
Unpublished
Picture Books
Having previously studied Child Development, Georgia takes inspiration from her work supporting children and young people struggling with learning…
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The Sinclair Brothers
Illustrator
Unpublished
Picture Books
As brothers we’ve been creating characters and stories together for over 30 years. It started as a means to entertain ourselves, then, as we got…
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Mr Bingo
Illustrator
Non-Fiction
Mr Bingo loves post. In April 2011 he launched a service on his website, where, for a small payment, he would send his customer a vintage postcard…
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Kate Winter
Illustrator
Picture Books
Kate worked as a stop-frame animator for 10 years, making music videos and commercials with a hand-made aesthetic for clients including Sigur Ros,…
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Julia Woolf
Illustrator
Picture Books
Before enrolling at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge where she completed and got a distinction in her MA in Children’s Book Illustration,…
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Emily Schofield
Author
Illustrator
Picture Books
Emily Schofield is an illustrator based in Manchester who loves all things nature. While her use of collage dominates her practice, she loves to…
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Katie Mai
Illustrator
Unpublished
Children’s
Picture Books
Katie Mai is an Illustrator based in Philadelphia, PA. After graduating from Rutgers University in 2021 with degrees in Visual Arts and Psychology,…
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Jo Williamson
Illustrator
Picture Books
Jo graduated with a distinction from the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art in 2014. Her first picture book How To Be…
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Morag Hood
Illustrator
Picture Books
Morag grew up in Edinburgh writing stories, splashing paint around and dreaming of having a pet duck. Following a degree in Costume Design from…
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Habiba Nabisubi
Illustrator
Picture Books
Habiba Nabisubi is a British Ugandan multimedia artist based in South London. Having lived in both Kampala, Uganda as well as the UK she draws huge…
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Paul Delaney
Illustrator
Picture Books
Paul Delaney likes to draw pictures, scribble ideas for stories, make stuff look nice on a page and brighten people’s day. Luckily he gets to do…
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Jools Bentley
Illustrator
Picture Books
All Jools wanted to do when she was little was to draw and show off on stage. Now that she’s (mostly) a grown-up, she’s found a way to combine…
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Toby Rampton
Illustrator
Picture Books
Toby Rampton is a British illustrator based in Cambridge, UK. He graduated with a Masters in Children’s Book Illustration from Cambridge School…
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Anuska Allepuz
Illustrator
Picture Books
Anuska grew up in Spain where she studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca. She has enjoyed drawing and writing stories for as long as she…
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Bethan Woollvin
Illustrator
Picture Books
Originally from Chelmsford in Essex, Bethan graduated from the BA Illustration course at the Cambridge School of Art. Bethan’s distinctive,…
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Bethany Christou
Illustrator
Picture Books
Bethany Christou graduated from Cambridge School of Art with a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Illustration. In her final year she wrote and…
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Dorcas Magbadelo
Illustrator
Non-Fiction
Children’s
Dorcas Magbadelo is an illustrator and product designer of DorcasCreates, draws inspiration from the Black women she encounters in her daily life.…
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Victoria Turnbull
Illustrator
Picture Books
After studying Graphic Design at Staffordshire University, Vic Turnbull went on to take up a place on the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at…
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Charley Rabbit
Illustrator
Picture Books
By day Charley has worked as a make-up artist, a window dresser, a coffee maker, a fetcher of lunch and a shampooer of hair, but by night Charley…
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Sophie Ambrose
Illustrator
Picture Books
Sophie worked in advertising and design before studying for an Illustration & Animation BA at Kingston University. Her final project, The…
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Will Mabbitt
Author
Illustrator
Children’s
Picture Books
Will Mabbitt likes to write. He writes on the train, in the corner of cafes, and sometimes he writes in his head when his laptop runs out of power.…
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Yokococo
Illustrator
Picture Books
Yokococo was born in Osaka, Japan. She studied English Literature in Kyoto and later came to England to study Illustration at Cambridge School of…
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Oliver Jeffers
Illustrator
Picture Books
Oliver Jeffers makes art.From figurative painting and installation to illustration and picture-book making, Jeffers’ work takes many forms. His…
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Jessica Meserve
Illustrator
Picture Books
Jessica is an illustrator and author of children’s books. She loves drawing children, animals and lyrical landscapes. She is inspired by her two…
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Ella Okstad
Illustrator
Picture Books
Ella is an illustrator based in Norway, living in her native city of Trondheim. However, Ella studied in the UK and graduated from Kent Institute…
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Iona Campbell
Author
Illustrator
Picture Books
Having grown up in The Netherlands, Iona is a Scottish-born London-based author and illustrator who is greatly inspired by the magic of everyday…
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Denzell Dankwah
Illustrator
Children’s
Denzell Dankwah is a British-born Ghanaian based in Northampton and is a 21 year old illustrator and recent graduate. Denzell’s art is heavily…
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April Howlett
Illustrator
Children’s
Picture Books
April is a mixed media illustrator and storyteller based in the Lake District, UK. She loves to be out in nature and draws inspiration from the…
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Rosie Thwaites
Illustrator
Picture Books
Rosie Thwaites is an English writer and illustrator (although her parents are from the other side of the world). She lives in London with her…
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Faye Bradley
Illustrator
Picture Books
Faye Bradley is an author and illustrator of stories for children. After studying illustration at University College Falmouth, Faye fell in love…
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Chantal Valerie
Illustrator
Picture Books
Chantal Valerie hails from a small village in Germany which, growing up, she thought she’d never leave. Yet, life had other plans and at 17, she…
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Forest Xiao
Author
Illustrator
Children’s
Picture Books
Forest Xiao is an image maker, storyteller, treasure finder, and new mother. She has lived in China, Germany, USA, UK, and Malaysia, which…
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Sam Winston
Illustrator
Picture Books
Sam Winston has been making art and books for twenty years. Initially known for his typography and artist’s books he employs a variety of…
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Bia Melo
Author
Illustrator
Picture Books
Bia is a Brazilian-born illustrator and author based in East London. She was the recipient of the prestigious The Queen Elizabeth Trust scholarship…
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Thiago de Moraes
Illustrator
Children’s
Picture Books
Thiago de Moraes spends most of his time in a tiny shed at the bottom of his garden, writing and illustrating books, comics and bits of old…
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Vicky Woodgate
Illustrator
Picture Books
Vicky Woodgate has been drawing since a toddler. This passion for scribbling lead her to a career in commercial art for 25 + years. After…
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Jo Empson
Illustrator
Picture Books
Jo Empson graduated from Cambridge School of Art with an MA in Children’s Book Illustration. During the course, she created her first picture…
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Claudia Boldt
Illustrator
Claudia Boldt’s work features recognisable bold layouts and a muted colour palette, which is complimented by engaging characters and narratives.…
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Bethan Stevens
Illustrator
Picture Books
Bethan could never decide which she loved more – words or pictures. So she chose a career that squashed the two together. After studying for a BA…
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