After many attempts at a career in random fields, David eventually earned his MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art in 2015. Upon graduation, he won the Sebastian Walker Award for most promising new children's illustrator. His first book, Have You Seen Elephant?, was published whilst attending the course and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and won the Zilveren Penseel in Holland.
Since then, he has produced many books for several publishers and has been published internationally, with most recent publications being Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho’s Budgie (for which he did the illustrations) and his follow-up to Have You Seen Elephant? Have You Seen Dinosaur?
David now teaches on the MA, the place where it all began, at the Cambridge School of Art, as well running the Picture book Illustration Meet-up for the AOI and is proud to be the ambassador for the Northamptonshire contingent of the Federation of Children’s Book Groups.
