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Emma Lewis is a London-based illustrator and designer working across narrative and commercial illustration. She writes and illustrates picture books while also taking on editorial and branded work. Her style is shaped by folk and naive art, the picture-books of the mid-20th century, and her travels. She studied illustration at […]
Peter Utton — British illustrator and author of children’s books. He discovered his love of drawing early: as a child, he would constantly ask his mother what to draw next — birds of paradise, jam pies, cowboys, and more cowboys. At fifteen, he began attending classes at the Southend School […]
Edmund Dulac (1882–1953) was a leading illustrator and artist in France and Britain during the early 20th century. Born in Toulouse, France, he showed an early interest in art. His father worked as a restorer of old paintings, and his uncle collected and studied Eastern art, including Japanese prints and […]
Paul Goble (1933-2017) was an English writer and illustrator of children’s books. He is best known for his stories about Native Americans. His book The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses won the Caldecott Medal in 1979. Paul Goble spent his childhood in Oxford, his father made harpsichords, his mother was […]
Charles William James Keeping (1924-1988) was a British illustrator and author of children’s books. He was born and spent his childhood in London; during World War II he served in the Royal Navy. After the war, he studied illustration and lithography at Regent Street Polytechnic. In the early 1950s, he […]
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is a famous English book illustrator. He was born in London to a large family. At the age of 18, he began working as a clerk in the Westminster Fire Office and began attending painting and drawing courses at the Lambeth School of Art. In 1892, he […]
Anthony Browne (born 1946) is a British writer and illustrator of children’s books. Anthony Browne was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire. His parents ran a small pub, where Anthony and his older brother Michael actually grew up. Anthony became interested in drawing at an early age. In 1967, he graduated from […]
Angela Barrett (born 1955) is an English illustrator who lives and works in London. After studying at Maidstone School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art, she went on to teach at the Cambridge College of Technology and Drawing and at the Chelsea College of Art. Barrett […]
Brian Wildsmith (1930-2016) was an English artist and book illustrator. He earned a reputation as one of the most colourful and original children’s artists of his time. Along with Quentin Blake and John Burningham, he influenced a generation of illustrators and publishers of the 1960s, when the technical capabilities of […]