After taking a week’s break at Easter, Meet An Illustrator is back with Kate Milner, our 13th guest in the weekend feature. Do visit the backpages to read the responses from the first dozen guests. Kate Milner was winner of the 2016 V&A student illustration award for her book My Name Is Not Refugee, which went […]
ACHUKA is delighted to bring you Tom Knight as the 12th guest in our weekly (every Saturday) Meet An Illustrator feature. Do visit the backpages of this feature to discover who the first eleven guests were. When choosing the chapter book Good Knight, Bad Knight And The Flying Machine as her Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week in […]
Marie Voigt is the 11th guest in our weekly (every Saturday) Meet An Illustrator feature. Do visit the backpages of this feature to discover who the first ten guests were. Let’s begin by allowing Marie to introduce herself. In this short video she explains what inspired her—despite already having a successful career in TV, branding and graphic […]
We are already at the 10th guest in our weekly (every Saturday) Meet An Illustrator and we’re very pleased to welcome Ian Beck. [Visit the backpages of this feature.] Ian is now in his seventies and still hard at work creating. His best-known work is probably the album cover for Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Here is a […]
ACHUKA’s 9th guest in our weekly (every Saturday) Meet An Illustrator slot is Mini Grey. All previous features in this series are being archived week by week on this page: https://www.achuka.co.uk/blog/meet-an-illustrator/ Mini Grey won the 2007 Kate Greenaway Medal for The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon (2006) having won the Horn Book Award (in America) in 2005 for […]
ACHUKA’s 8th guest in our weekly (every Saturday) Meet An Illustrator slot is Armin Greder. All previous features in this series are being archived week by week on this page: https://www.achuka.co.uk/blog/meet-an-illustrator/ Born in Switzerland, but living and working in Australia after 1970 and for the last ten years in Peru, Greder is an uncompromising picture book artist […]
We welcome our seventh guest to ACHUKA’s Meet An Illustrator slot—Jenny Løvlie. All previous features in this series are being archived week by week on this page: https://www.achuka.co.uk/blog/meet-an-illustrator/ Now based in Cardiff, Jenny grew up in northern Norway, in Ekkerøy, a tiny village with a population of under 50 and where she was the first child to […]
The sixth guest in ACHUKA’s new Meet An Illustrator feature is Emily Gravett. If you missed the earlier ones, don’t worry, they are being archived week by week on this page: https://www.achuka.co.uk/blog/meet-an-illustrator/ Emily Gravett was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal for her debut picture book, Wolves, and ACHUKA has been a fan ever since. She […]
The fifth guest in ACHUKA’s new Meet An Illustrator feature is Keith Robinson. If you missed the earlier ones, don’t worry, they are collected week by week on this page: https://www.achuka.co.uk/blog/meet-an-illustrator/ Keith is based near Lyme Regis and has been a freelance illustrator since 2001. After graduating in graphics and illustration in 1992, he worked […]
We’re delighted to have Dapo Adeola as the fourth guest in ACHUKA’s new Meet An Illustrator feature. Did you miss the earlier ones? Don’t fret, they are being collected week by week on this page: https://www.achuka.co.uk/blog/meet-an-illustrator/ Dapo has campaigned on behalf of illustrators to ensure their work is properly acknowledged whenever titles in which they have […]
We’re delighted to have Debi Gliori as the third guest in ACHUKA’s new Meet An Illustrator feature. Did you miss the first one with Jim Field? The second one with James Mayhew? I daren’t count them all, but Debi must have published nearly 100 picture books, both by herself (the Mr Bear series has sold […]
We’re delighted to have James Mayhew as the second guest in ACHUKA’s new Meet An Illustrator feature, which launched last week with Jim Field. James is an amazing ambassador of art and music for children, and he has a huge number of adult followers on Twitter who appreciate his #BookIllustrationOfTheDay hashtag posts. He is probably […]
We’re delighted to have Jim Field as the first subject of our new Meet An Illustrator feature. Jim’s first picture book was Cats Ahoy written by Peter Bently, which won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2011. He has become known for drawing frogs on logs since the picture book Oi Frog! written by Kes Gray […]