Combined Publishing portfolios by Advocate Art

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About Advocate Art

Kate Johnson

Atlanta Japp

Natasha Harding

Ghislaine Gayyo

Amanda Hendon

Yasmin Reynell

Bhavisha Vadgama

Sam Groff

Sophie Youle

Advocate Art was founded in 1992, with a group of illustrators who liked the idea of having an agent but not the other things that often came with that. We call our ethos four “F.A.C.T.s”: Fairness, Ability, Creativity and Trust. It’s about doing the right thing and being with the right people. We think our principles set us apart from conventional agencies, sticking to them has meant we have attracted the most creative illustrators and artists who in turn attract (with a little help) the best clients. The people we represent are perfectly able to conduct their own affairs but like working with Advocate Art because we offer value to them in the services we provide. Clients are assured that we represent artists that are like-minded professionals, pre-vetted and able not only to get the job done without fuss, but also to surpass expectations. It’s their choice to be with us, we have a high retention rate - with the most popular artists in our group being with us from the start! We were one of the first Agencies to give direct client contact with our illustrators, allowing creativity to flow without being diluted in translation. We were one of the first to offer re-sales as an important secondary income to artists. Now we have gone beyond that too, with the development of an on-line portal - ARTicle which enables artists to have transparency into the back office functions of the business, such as royalty management and credit control, amongst other things. Business is all about relationships, which is why we have a very high artist to agent ratio, clients often use us as artistic advisors, project managers as well a trend forward resource for pre-qualified talent. It is for these reasons that Advocate Art has become the largest illustration agency around and I’d like to think one of the most respected but- we understand we didn’t get that way by acting like the biggest. Come and find out for yourself…

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About Advocate Art

Kate Johnson

Atlanta Japp

Natasha Harding

Ghislaine Gayyo

Amanda Hendon

Yasmin Reynell

Bhavisha Vadgama

Sam Groff

Sophie Youle

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ANGELIKA SCUDAMORE

Angelika is based in South London. She always loved drawing and her earliest memory is drawing with her dad. She was obsessed with Beatrix Potter with her beautiful illustrations of cute fluffy bunnies and animals as a child. Ever since Angelika can remember herself, she always wanted to have the exact studio Beatrix had with her bunny sitting on her desk! Everywhere she goes she carries around a sketchbook and jots down every idea that comes to her head. Before she became an illustrator she taught yoga to young children, making up innovative stories through yoga. This was what later inspired Angelika to illustrate childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books. She loves the hustle and bustle of the city and stopping off at small coffee shops, where she gathers most inspiration from the people and atmosphere. Angelika loves creating cute, fun characters.

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AMY CARTWRIGHT

Amy Cartwright was born in England and now lives in the USA. She is sure that the small toy polar bear she had in her childhood led her to her artistic career. Amy studied Illustration at Central Saint Martins in London and would describe her style as whimsical, fun and cute. She enjoys working with a 0.3mm propelling pencil, paper at first, then she digitalises it, which means she can work anywhere as long as she has her computer. Her favourite piece at the moment is a little dog with a sad face. She likes listening to NPR, BBC World and Tycho (for really crazy deadlines!) In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, travelling and making stuff. If she werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an illustrator, she would be on a beach or a mountain. She canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t decide whether she loves the city or the countryside more; she loves them both!

AMY CARTWRIGHT

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Amy grew up in the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. She studied fine art in university but realised a career as an award winning fine artist was far too serious for her. So, she has decided to try and make it as an award winning illustrator instead!

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ANNABEL SPENCELEY

Annabel’s career began with a degree in Fashion, followed by a Masters in illustration (she hated sewing!). Her first job was in a publisher’s studio doing colouring books and encyclopaedias, which was good for general knowledge. Then she went freelance with children’s books. She accidentally got into greetings cards by agreeing to cover maternity leave for a friend and she loved it. Now she’s getting back into book illustration again. She loves doing figures and animals, but does not love drawing bicycles. She prefers to work by being left alone with her pencils and paints and she likes the feel of actual paint and paper, incorporating the accidental into her work. For her, inspiration can come from anywhere, magazine snippings, TV, random animals, random things in general, cat videos.

ANNABEL SPENCELEY

CARLO BERANEK

Carlo Beranek is a freelance illustrator based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He studied animation at a creative college in Rotterdam but soon discovered that his true passion was for illustration, particularly the creation of whimsical characters that bring people, children especially, joy. His work is bold, bright and colourful, and often invested with strong messages that carry forward Carloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belief in artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability not only to entertain but also to educate and inspire. If Carlo werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an illustrator he would have been a chef. He loves reading, listening to music, going to the cinema, and would jump at the chance to move to a big city like

CARLO BERANEK

CEE BISCOE

Cee grew up surrounded by paintings and sculptures and was encouraged to draw from an early age. After school, she studied Graphic Design and began a tentative illustration career whilst at college, designing punk record covers and gothic stationery! Then she had other jobs for many years, which were totally unrelated to art. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until 2000 that she focused on drawing again and once she had some commissions she left her office job to concentrate on illustration, starting with greeting cards and craft designs. In 2008, she attained her MA in Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book Illustration and since then she has illustrated several picture books and board books. She finds inspiration in nature and has a fondness for creepy crawlies, which means they often turn up in her pictures! She paints in watercolour and acrylics and loves getting messy in her studio (a converted shed in the garden), where she watches the birds from her window.

CEE BISCOE

CHRISTINE SHELDON

Christine was born in Manchester, grew up in Kent then Leicester and now lives in Earls Barton village, Northampton. She loved the illustrations in books she read as a child, which were classic fairytales. She has always been a fan of Hanna-Barbera and Luney Tunes cartoons, and has an ongoing love for Ray Harryhausen stop motion creatures. She still loves Disney characters and the work of disney artist Mary Blair. She trained as a graphic designer in Leicester and Northampton, and in her first job as a junior designer her employer bought a small greeting card company and she immediately loved it, designed/ illustrated entire ranges, art directed photography/ freelance illustrators. She worked in several design studios over 20 years before freelancing. She is a digital illustrator and describes her work as quirky, whimsical, and contemporary, she also has a more traditional soft and cute character style too. She keeps a very keen eye on current illustration trends and has a broad taste in art and design, with a love of stationery, cards and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books.

CHRISTINE SHELDON

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Christos Skaltsas was born and raised in Athens, Greece, and received his BFA in Animation from the School of Visual Arts. He worked as a freelancer on animated films and TV series for several years, working in association with Sony pictures, Paramount pictures and many more. Over the past fifteen years, he has worked as a freelance illustrator for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books publishers, specializing in educational schoolbooks and pre-school activity books. As a result of his experience in animation, he can produce a wide range of styles, using dynamic poses, with a taste for film directing and mixing techniques. His inspirations include Alain Gree, Shag and the greatest (in Christosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; opinion) story teller in animation, Hayao Miyazaki. In his free time, he loves playing with his son, collecting vinyl records and travelling around the world.

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CLAIRE KEAY

Claireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustrating style has always suited childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books and she naturally gravitates towards the kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s section in book stores, always preferring their lovely rich magical images rather than looking at those grown up books. She began with a pen and watercolour style which she still loves but is increasingly spending more time working digitally and always enjoys exploring new ways to create her art. Claire is based in an old market town in the south of England and when not illustrating you can find her pottering around in her garden or cheering on Arsenal from her seat at the Emirates!

CLAIRE KEAY

DANIELA MASSIRONI

Daniela was born in 1984 in a small town near Milan, Italy. She has always loved drawing. Since she was very small, her favourite pastime has always been sketching and doodling, giving life to the fantasy stories in her head. She studied Graphic Design in Milan and in London, where she lived for four years. There she had the chance to work as a Children’s Book designer at Egmont UK. This experience gave her the chance to get in touch with amazing and inspiring illustrators and to see her dream of becoming an illustrator come true. Now she is back in Italy, where she works as a freelance Children’s Book illustrator. She loves her job, especially when thinking of all the children that she makes happy with her drawings! Daniela‘s favourite illustrators and greatest inspirations are Mary Blair, Marc Boutavant and Joey Chou.

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11 DEAN GRAY

Dean was born in Roehampton and is currently based in South London. He studied Graphic Design, which means that conceptual thinking plays a huge part in his idea process. He takes a lot of inspiration from watching films, animations, browsing the Internet, collecting vinyl toys, kawaii culture and science fiction. He has a character driven approach to his work and he is passionate about story telling. Creating a character that someone can have an emotional connection with is what he find most exciting.

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DIEGO VAISBERG

Diego Vaisberg, 35 years old, DGPH art director, working as designer and illustrator. Also working in product and design department for Ink-co kids accessories brand, and professor since 2014 at Editorial design and Illustration at the Palermo University, Buenos Aires.

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13 ED MYER

Ed was born in Manchester in an artistic household; nearly everyone in his immediate family works in creative industries. He went on to get a degree in Ceramics at a university, but realised that it was drawing that really mattered for him. He is now based in London, and when not working on commission, he enjoys travelling, playing computer games and walking his little Jack Russell Ted.

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ELLIE O’SHEA

Ellie is a coffee addict, an avid snowboarder and bad joke teller. She completed her degree in Illustration in Plymouth and now lives in Worcester with her (equally bad joke-telling) boyfriend. They love lazy Sundays watching cartoons all day, her biggest inspiration for drawing! She has always loved watching cartoons and when she was around 8 she decided, “Hey, I want to draw like that!” So she picked up her pencil, and here she is. She loves writing and illustrating children’s books. Starting with scribbles before drawing and colouring up in Illustrator and Photoshop. When she’s not doodling or drinking coffee, you will usually find her shopping for makeup, binge-watching cartoons or watching pug videos on Youtube. Yes, she is an adult, why do you ask?

ELLIE O’SHEA

FRANCESCO ZITO

Francesco was born in a little town in Italy with only a bell tower and lots of narrow stone streets. He has been drawing since he was a child but never on his own books! Beatrix Potter and Richard Scarry have been his own precious sources of inspiration. It was through their books and illustrations that he learned he wanted to become a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustrator. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and some of his works were selected over the years for some important Italian competitions. He likes many different media like colored pencils, acrylic paints and his trusty Cintiq tablet. Now he lives in Rome with some friends, spending his time in bookstores in search of new childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books to collect and eating gelato too! He dreams of having a dog.

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GABI MURPHY

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According to Gabi her career in art was built on the enthusiasm of a bubbly, eccentric art teacher who claimed with exuberant arm waving: ‘Darling, you must do art!’ So she did – a foundation course at Hornsey and then a BA(Hons) in graphics at Middlesex. Followed by a PGCert (art and design)….at which point, having spent as many years as is polite in education, she realised she ought to get a job! Gabi has been a freelance artist for over 35yrs and has spent happy hours creating lots of cutesy, fluffy, ahh type characters – which is strange as she’s about as far away from being cutesy and fluffy as a hyena is from that little puppy used to advertise certain loo rolls! Her words, not ours! She has recently studied acrylic and oil painting at ISoA and have also discovered an interest in digital art. Everything and anything can trigger a scribble session, but colour is her greatest inspiration, the more colours on her palette the happier she is – which is where she differs from ‘proper’ artists as they will usually work with a chosen few colours. “Perhaps I’m just greedy: think ‘child in a sweet shop’.” Actually, Gabi likes sweets too.

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GABI MURPHY

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GAIL YERRILL

Gail Yerrill lives in a village in Bedfordshire, England. After gaining her BA (Hons) in 2D design in 1998 she became a freelance illustrator and designer of greeting cards and giftwrap for a major British supermarket chain, and has also illustrated items for other significant British institutions. She has illustrated many books for well known publishers, several of which are translated into many languages. Gail is well known for her soft, whimsical style which is well loved by children and adults alike.

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GARETH WILLIAMS

Gareth was born in Hillingdon, West London, but ventured (when he was two) to the green valleys of South Wales. At an early age he loved to draw. He quickly realised that his dream of becoming the first Welsh astronaut would be sidelined for his creative abilities and talents. He still wants to fulfill his dream. He studied general illustration at Swansea Metropolitan. Having worked with leading stationery and greeting cards companies, he now finds himself looking to develop his freelance career. His work has a strong illustrative influence, with lots of textures and layers to create a hand drawn style. He loves letterpress and screen printing something that is often prevalent in his work. He frequently visits art exhibitions and finds himself wondering around a gallery with his sketchbook then getting back to his computer, putting his playlist on shuffle, opening up his sketchbook and exploring new techniques and ideas. Gareth has always had a passion for design and apart from his burning desire to be an astronaut, being creative and doing what he loves has always been a fundamental rule his life.

GARETH WILLIAMS

GINA MALDONADO

Gina comes from Bogota, Colombia, and studied Architecture in Mexico. Since then she has travelled and lived all around the world! In Italy, she carried out a Masters in Interior Design and discovered her love for illustration (and gelato!). Since then, she has been illustrating, freelancing, and trying to avoid big crowds in the bustling city of Hong Kong. When it comes to inspiration, it’s her justification for traveling and watching cute animal videos on loop. While she works, she listens to all kinds of music, though at the moment she loves ‘Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’. This music is quirky and gets her in a good mood. The best muses are without a doubt her two sweet cats, Nocciola and Cereza, who come by for cuddles whenever she works! She’d describe her work as cute, sweet and fun. She loves colours and flowery details! She also likes her illustrations to have their own textures, so she makes different textures from acrylics, gouache, pastels, and coloured pencils, to name a few. When she’s not working, she channels her creative energy into painting her nails with colourful designs, making sock creatures and of course, taking cute cat photos. She is very passionate about her work and can’t think of anything else in the world she’d rather be doing that could give her as much happiness.

GINA MALDONADO

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Hannah is from England but grew up in the Netherlands and Norway. She returned to England to study politics and history at university, until the moment she finally saw the light and, after a spell as a graphic designer, followed her first love â&#x20AC;&#x201C; illustration. Hannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustration styles and techniques are always evolving. She lives in a little quaint village in the middle of England with two cats and an ever-growing collection of 1950s ephemera and cook books.

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JAYNE SCHOFIELD

Jayne Schofield was born in Morecambe, by the sea in Lancashire, and after many years of travelling she came back to this area to raise her family. Her grandad was an artist and she spent most of her younger days sitting with him learning to draw and paint. She spent every available moment immersed in her sketchbooks! She gained a degree in Illustration and Design at Staffordshire University and from there she went to work within the gift and fashion industries. She now works as a freelance illustrator/designer from her studio at the back of our home. She produces her illustrations using a combination of traditional and digital collage techniques and likes to mix textures, type and imagery to create playful and fun art. Her husband tells everyone that she draws fairies for a living, she tells them that she has the best job in the world!

JAYNE SCHOFIELD

JENNIE BRADLEY

Jennie is an illustration addict, colour-er-innerer extraordinaire, serial picture book purchaser and wild lama juggler*. She has always loved to draw, but it was whilst studying for her degree that she discovered drawing in a digital form and she has never looked back. She graduated in 2007 and has been doodling professionally ever since (freelance since 2011). She works from home in her little studio (in either her pj’s or her onesie!) surrounded by hundreds of picture books (did we mention she is completely obsessed with children’s books!?!) Quick-fire facts: Her son Rocky is a mini walking/talking/giggling bundle of inspiration, she is a massive Rammstein fan (ROCK!!), documentaries of choice: all things science and space, World geography is her specialist subject, she is scared of oil rigs and airships (don’t ask!), she was (very) nearly eaten by a lion in Botswana and chocolate is her nemesis. *Stories of lamas and juggling skills have been fabricated.

JENNIE BRADLEY

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Jo left art school in the early 90’s after five years of study, specialising in illustration and design. She is lucky enough to have been a full time illustrator ever since working primarily in the areas of magazine editorial and print initially, then later children’s books and greetings cards. Her work has expanded into areas such as fine art prints, games and puzzles, social stationary and calendars, as well as giftware, homewares and several aspects of design such as logos, business stationary and print publications. In 2016 she had her first self-penned children’s book published, Sleep Little Pup, working with Collaborate. She has written a further six books which will be ready for Advocate to appraise in the near future. When she‘s not busy illustrating for her agents, she is also an art teacher for children and a private art tutor, and has developed two ranges of tourist giftware for her local area which has hit the shelves this year and is selling well! Jo feels very blessed to have such an exciting career, one she wishes to continue for years to come. “The ideas keep coming!” Spending the day being creative and also having the chance to pass on those skills to the next generation is a privilege and an honour, says Jo. Outside of creative pursuits she is a keen runner and swimmer. Other interests include cooking and nutrition, reading (especially art history), antiques and collectables with an emphasis on anything related to the Arts & Crafts movement and attending sport and other cultural events.

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24 JULIA SEAL

When Julia was five, she decided she was either going to work in a shoe shop or draw pictures for a living and luckily, many years later, she graduated from University with a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration. After working in the Greetings Card Industry and getting covered in glitter everyday, she moved onto her dream job illustrating childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books. She now lives in a small village near Bath with her husband and two children, surrounded by books and inspiration.

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LAURA GONZALEZ

It was the year of 1984, in the industrial city of Monterrey, MĂŠxico, when Laura was born. Drawing was one of her favourite amusements when she was a child, so her parents took her into drawing classes, at the age of 8. It was a short time, but enough to give her the confidence to study the career of Graphic Design some years later. Sometimes Laura wonders what it would be of her life if she had dedicated to any of her other interests: music, photography, plants, etc. But at the end of the day, she is pretty sure she would have been wondering exactly the same about illustration and it is always a joy to think how lucky she is to have such a lovely profession. And how does she cope with all that illustration hard work? Well, her feline helpers are the key to keep this ship from sinking.

LAURA GONZALEZ

LISA ALDERSON

Lisa was born in Lancashire, but now lives and works in a lovely village near York. After gaining her degree in Scientific and Natural History Illustration at Blackpool college she went straight into freelance work as one of Advocates artists, and has stayed there ever since. Over 20 years later she‘s still doing her first love – creating artworks. It feels a privilege to her, to be part of Advocate and do something that she‘s loved for as long as she could remember. Her inspirations come from anything and everything that’s aesthetically pleasing, especially the beauty of nature and all pretty things. It’s been an obsession she’s had since childhood, studying early 20th century children‘s book illustrations, spending time in the company of Peter Rabbit, Jemima, flower fairies and the characters from Lady bird books. When she‘s not working she can be found spending time with her twins and their new puppy Hobbes, busy getting sore fingers building Lego, trampolining and going on adventures in rabbit holes.

LISA ALDERSON

27 LIZA LEWIS

Liza is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. Originally from Belgium, she now lives in Southampton, England, and works from her home studio, where she creates fun, quirky illustrations and unusual children’s designs. She gets lots of inspiration from her pets, family, animals, toys, music, art, fabrics and plants - anything really! She has a particular interest in children’s illustration and enjoys creating new and exciting children’s characters that she likes to incorporate into her designs. Liza’s illustration style incorporates lots of colour, texture and detail. She likes to draw a rough initial illustration by hand and then take it to the computer where she adds lots of colour, detailed texture and bits and pieces. This is where the illustrations come to life and where the magic happens.

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LOUISE ANGLICAS

Louise Anglicas hails from Manchester, but now lives just down the road in the heart of the Potteries, Staffordshire with her partner and 2 young children. She graduated with a degree in Ceramics and Surface pattern, and started her career as an in-house designer at a tableware manufacturer, designing patterns for high street clients as well as for cruiseliners for the hotelware division. After picking up lots of commercial design awareness, she then ventured into the freelance world... and now 14 years later has had the privilege of working on many diverse products from childrens books, to wall art, to greeting cards, to jigsaws and stationery to name but a few! She loves surface pattern design, and illustrating characters are her passion. Always striving to keep an eye on the constantly changing trends and incorporate them into her designs. She feels very lucky to be able to illustrate and design for a living...12 years and counting being represented with Advocate Art, and still loving the diversity of work... the adventure continues!!

LOUISE ANGLICAS

LUCY BARNARD

Lucy Barnard is from Cheltenham but now lives in Manchester with her husband and two children. After completing her art foundation course in Cheltenham and her Illustration degree in Exeter, she worked at various publishing companies in London before joining Advocate and becoming a freelance illustrator. Her portfolio originally consisted of greeting card and print designs but she subsequently moved into childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book illustration. Lucy now works digitally but often still utilises hand rendered textures. As well as illustrating for others she also writes and illustrates her own stories, quite often inspired by herown children!

LUCY BARNARD

MAGALI MANSILLA

Magalí Mansilla is a freelance illustrator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires, and has been freelancing since 2004. Magalí uses a variety of techniques to create her illustrations, but whichever medium she chooses her priority is capturing the magic of childhood in dreamlike forms and colours. In her free time, Magalí enjoys practicing yoga, playing guitar and ukulele, discovering new music, and watching Buster Keaton films.

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31 MARIA REYES

Maria Reyes Guijarro is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Madrid. She trained as an illustrator at the School of Art #10 in Madrid and, since the completion of her studies in 2009, the focus of her work is in graphic design and illustration for the publishing sector, public institutions and NGOs. She is available for illustration, branding, print design/layout and poster design. Some of her clients are L’Institut français, ONCE Foundation, Caja Madrid Foundation, Save the Children, Santillana, Edicións Xerais (Grupo Anaya) or Hiperión. In 2010 she received a Special Mention from the jury at the V International Illustrated Album Award Gran Canaria / Editorial Group Luis Vives and, in 2017, her work has been included in the honour list by the OEPLY, the spanish chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People - IBBY, a selection of the best children books of the year.

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MARTINA HOGAN

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From an early age Martina has always loved to draw. Her favourite pastime was taking left over rolls of wallpaper and drawing on the back. She would start at one end and her friend at the other and together they would create their very own imaginary magical worlds of castles, princesses and underwater scenes. It would keep them quiet for quite a long time. Martina started her career as a children‘s wear designer. This helped her to gain the commercial awareness plus the understanding and importance of trends that is needed in the design business. She then moved on to the homeware and gifting side of the business as a design manager. She found this extremely rewarding. Being able to start from a mood board to then turn that one trend into a commercial range to suit the clients customer base, making sure that products cost in and met all technical requirements and working closely with the factories was a challenge that she loved. From this Martina naturally progressed to designing children‘s toys, and she was in her element! This really took her back to her childhood and the imaginary play worlds she would create. This made her realise that something was missing. It was her roll of wallpaper and pot of pencils. So after ten years of management she decided to take the big leap into the world of freelance, armed with her roll of wallpaper or rather her Mac. She‘s now drawing all day long with just one aim…. to make all her customers happy and smiley!

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MARTINA HOGAN

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MELANIE MITCHELL

Melanie has always loved drawing - ever since she can remember! So studying art was an obvious choice for her. After college, she studied illustration at the North Wales school of Art and Design, where she gained a degree. She has been working as an illustrator for 15 years now and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been lucky enough to work on a variety of illustration projects, from packaging and greeting cards to childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books (which she enjoys illustrating the most). Melanie lives in Mid Wales with her two children, who are always a source of inspiration, and her partner Paul Nicholls, who is also an Advocate artist.

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MICHAEL BUXTON

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Michael Buxton is a designer with over ten years’ experience in the greetings card industry, producing best-selling ranges for clients like Clintons, Paperchase and Recycled Paper Greetings. Since becoming freelance, he’s branched out into producing designs for t-shirts, homeware and books. In this time, he’s had work selected for Threadless, Junique, Hot Topic and Disney, among many others. He produces quirky, fun designs with an emphasis on humour and while his work is mainly digital, he likes to keep a loose, hand-drawn feel. He loves to create characters and will take any chance he gets to draw monsters, cats or monster cats. Very recently, Michael had the opportunity to illustrate a children’s book for Five Mile Press and has his fingers crossed that it will be the first of many.

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MICHAEL BUXTON

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MICHAEL EMMERSON

Born in 1974, Michael has been drawing pictures ever since he could pick up a Burnt Sienna crayon and scribble all over the new wallpaper. Nowadays, he tends to use a Mac, pencils and paper. He lives in Surrey, with his lovely wife Alice and crazy children. When heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not drawing colourful fun pictures or solving mysteries, he also designs Toys and Chocolates. Yum.

MICHAEL EMMERSON

PAUL NICHOLLS

Paul is a freelance artist producing illustrations for a wide variety of commissions. He graduated with a BA Hons Degree from the North Wales School of art and design in 2000. Paul is represented by the Advocate Art agency which he joined in 2001. Since then he has worked for a wide variety of clients producing illustrations for the Advertising, Editorial, Fine art, Greetings and Publishing sectors. Paul lives on the coast of mid Wales where he shares a studio with his partner and fellow illustrator Melanie Mitchell, they have two children. In his spare time he enjoys Mountain Biking, a bit of Golf and chasing the kids around the beach. Paul currently works digitally through a wacom tablet and the latest adobe cc software. Clients include; BBC, Usborne Publishing, Lion Hudson, Ladybird, Oxford Uni Press, Pearson, Hallmark.

PAUL NICHOLLS

PAULINE SIEWERT

Pauline grew up in lots of places; Tanzania for the first eight years of my life and then Brighton, London and Surrey. After doing a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art, she studied Graphics and illustration at Kingston Polytechnic. She worked for a display company and was the visualiser for a small design group in central London. Pauline had always wanted to illustrate childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books though and in 1998, became freelance to do just that. She is married and now lives in Farnham, Surrey. When not illustrating she loves to travel, read and walk in the Surrey and Dorset countryside.

PAULINE SIEWERT

SIMON ABBOTT

Artist and designer Simon Abbott has been illustrating childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books, games and stationery for over 15 years. He specialises in bold colours and delightful characters of all kinds and describes his work as fun, fresh and happy. His easy style has instant appeal and helps to communicate complex ideas and concepts in a flash. Whether he is drawing playground fun, astronauts, dinosaurs or monkeys swinging through trees, his art is always engaging and is guaranteed to make children smile. Simon lives and works in Suffolk, UK, with his partner and their 3 boys. When he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t got a pen or paintbrush in his hand, he enjoys music, festivals, running and ice-cream.

SIMON ABBOTT

STEVEN WOOD

Steven lives in North London and works from a little studio in his house. While most of his time is spent spying on the neighbourhood cats and trying to lure them into his house, he does love to doodle. When drawing, Steven‘s main focus is always the cast of characters that brings life and movement to the picture. He loves to emphasise subtle humour, taking influence from the adventure stories he loved as a child. Whether that’s tales of pirates and sunken treasure, cowboys, knights and dragons, or classic murder mystery stories, they all shape the pictures he loves to draw. When not working, Steven‘s favourite hobby is stealing biscuits from his girlfriend and blaming the ‘house mouse’. “I promise there really is a mouse in our house that has an unstoppable biscuit addiction… I’m trying to get him help.” Steven loves sports too. “Yay, sports-ball!”

STEVEN WOOD

VALERIA ISSA

Valeria Issa was born in Rome in 1988 but lived in a tiny village nearby for most of her childhood. She studied Character Animation and Digital Illustration at Nemo NT Academy of Digital Arts in Florence. Straight after graduating she moved to London and realized she wanted to pursue her interest in illustration. After all, she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay away from her pencils and sketchbooks! She loves portraying children and animals in humorous situations and using bright and captivating colors. She takes inspiration from everything and everywhere around her, in that unconventional way that defines her style and creativeness. She loves chocolate and cats, messy doodles and when it rains at night. When she is not working she can be found writing short stories, watching movies and trying new recipes in the kitchen.

VALERIA ISSA

XENIA PAVLOVA

Xenia was born in Riga (Latvia, Baltic sea region), in a family of artists. Now she lives and illustrates her own books in Moscow. She had been studying oil painting for a while in Fine Arts Academy, then she desired to start her career as a children‘s books illustrator. Xenia likes to watch the surrounding world through the eyes of children. Animals and nature fascinate her as well. But her first and foremost inspiration are good books! Xenia has been working non-stop with Russian publishers for many years, but now, being a part of Advocate‘s team, she could illustrate children‘s books all around the world. It proves that Art has no boundaries, whatsoever. Xenia is proud to feel part of other countries’ cultures backgrounds which makes her immensely happy.

XENIA PAVLOVA

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ALEXANDRE AFFONSO

Alex is a full-time freelance illustrator and infographic artist currently working between SĂŁo Paulo (Brazil) and Porto (Portugal), with more than 20 years of experience in the creative industry. After graduating with a degree in Advertising, he was selected for a program for young talents to work for a leading newspaper in Brazil, where he stayed for 8 years and learned the secrets of visual journalism. In the last 10 years, Alex has been working exclusively as a freelancer and in this period he has expanded his field of work from journalism to cover advertising and textbooks. He aims to create a graphic work where visual elements replace texts, communicating ideas quickly and engagingly, translating a complex piece of information into something comprehensible even for a child. To achieve this selfmotivated goal, he uses vectors for 90% of his drawings, trying to be minimalist whenever it is possible, and uses a limited colour palette and basic geometric shapes.

ALEXANDRE AFFONSO

AMANDA SHUFFLEBOTHAM

Amanda Shufflebotham is a designer and illustrator based in the historic Welsh/English border town of Chepstow, where she lives with her partner and two sons. She was born near Oxford and attended Swindon School of Art and Design in the late 1980s, which led to a career in publishing, design and advertising. In 2004, while her sons were very young, Amanda branched out into freelance work and it was at that point that her approach became more illustrative. Amanda’s background in graphics is evident in her design style: bold colours and geometric shapes take centre stage. Her designs have been used for greeting ware in the UK and the US, and in the tourism sector. Amanda now works from her home studio, and when she’s not illustrating and designing she is spending time with her family and enjoying her garden. In fact, if Amanda hadn’t gone into design she would have like to be a landscape gardener as the shapes and textures of foliage have always enchanted her.

AMANDA SHUFFLEBOTHAM

CELESTE AIRES

Celeste was born in San Juan, Argentina, a town by the Andeans. She grew up in a house with a big garden, two dogs and a little sister. She always loved drawing, painting, sculpting, writing, and she always had a big imagination. Because of this she decided she wanted to be an artist for a living. She studied hard to get a place at a good high school where you could choose a specialty after the second year. Of course, she chose art and design. After high school, she went to Art collage for a little while, but then she dropped out and became a trekking guide. She spent several years working in the mountains and climbing around the world. In 2011, she moved to Buenos Aires to study Animation Direction and she became a professional illustrator a year after that. She loves mid-century modern styles, geometrical shapes, adventure tales, chocolate, mountains, being outdoors, animals and plants. She also loves learning new things, so sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always doing workshops and courses, such as silkscreen, letterpress, poster design, and character design, among others. She thinks her work is a bit nostalgic, simple and funny. She wants to evolve as an artist and explore and mix all medias and techniques that she can. By the way, her name means Light Blue Air!

CELESTE AIRES

04 JENNY WREN

Jenny Wren has created illustrations for various book publishers including Usborne publishing, Caterpillar books, Igloo books and Lake press. She loves to illustrate maps, busy scenes, and animals of all shapes and sizes. As well as producing artwork for book projects, Jenny also loves to design greetings cards, featuring fun characters, decorative florals or trend led icons.

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KAY COENEN

Kay Coenen, is an Infographicmaker based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He works for various Dutch media, magazines and newspapers. Kay gives guest lectures about his work and also infographics at Art Academies and Universities in the Netherlands. What he likes about producing infographics is that every question a client may have is like a new challenge. He likes to dive into new subjects and learn something every day. For any new project he always chooses a style that fits the client identity and tries to make a product that fits the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs the best. In his opinion, this challenge is what makes work so interesting! In his spare time he likes to work on his Comics stories (watch some on www. funkyrobot.nl) with robots, rockets and other futuristic subjects. He also likes to work on classic cars and motorbikes which can also influence his work.

KAY COENEN

LILA KALOGERI

Lila Kalogeri is a freelance illustrator, comic artist and painter. She graduated from the UCE, Birmingham, with an MA in Visual Communication in 2002 and has since been working for book publishers, magazines and agencies. She has been commissioned for various painting projects and her work has been displayed in numerous exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Most of her work is computer generated, but she also enjoys working with traditional media. In 2015, she received a merit at the EBGE illustration and graphic design awards for her illustration of “Vres poios eimai” first readers book. She recently launched “My lovely Crete”, a collection of illustrated souvenirs about the island of Crete, where she grew up and is currently based.

LILA KALOGERI

07 LIRIOS BOU

Lirios Bou was born in 1988 in a small city between mountains called Alcoi (Alicante, Spain). She isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t one of those people who always knew they wanted to be an illustrator, actually she wanted to be many things: teacher, journalist, photographer, writer... but finally, drawing was the most fun option! She studied Illustration, Fine Arts and also a Master Degree in Arts Education. She started drawing professionally in 2014 and since then, her drawings have been used mainly in educational books, magazines, and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books. Her style is clean and simple, always using plain colours and rounded shapes, and she works mostly with digital tools. Nowadays, she lives in Valencia, and shares her studio with Blai, her adorable/crazy dog. Sometimes she manages to have some free time; when that happens, she starts inventing stories and writing tales that turn into picture books for all kinds of readers.

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MARC ETIENNE PEINTRE

Marc-Etienne was born in Troyes, France. He then moved to Lyon where he studied Illustration at Emile Cohl school, Marc now lives in Paris where he works as a freelance illustrator. He thinks that sitting too close to the TV watching Cartoon network when he was a boy, is what got him into drawing. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his teenage skaboarding years that really drew him into illustration, enjoying the work of people such as Jeremy Fish and Evan Hecox. He likes to draw colorful and humourous scenes with playful characters. He worked for several advertisement campaigns but he really likes magazine related work as well as childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books illustrations because they allow him to have a more offbeat approach and funnier results. In the world we live in, working with computer graphics is a must, but Marc also enjoys a more hands on approach for his personal work. For example he really likes watercolour but he also uses linocut because of its raw and simplistic result.

MARC ETIENNE PEINTRE

TERESA BELLON

Teresa Bellon was born in Albacete, Spain in 1987. She spent a few years wandering around in life, she was studying different things and doing drawings just for Mom and Dad; until she finally accepted her fate and completed an Illustration Course in Madrid. As a result, she began working for national and international clients and she has had several exhibitions. Their references are mainly Portuguese and Nordic illustrators of children’s books. Her drawings have a touch of naivety, reduced ranges of colours and simple compositions. Finally, Teresa didn’t stay at home waiting for inspiration, she set out to find it. Therefore, she’s been travelling, buying illustrated books and walking a lot for Madrid.

TERESA BELLON

CARLO MOLINARI

Carlo Molinari was born in Santeramo, Italy, where he grew up and now lives. All his life, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had a passion for comics, especially those drawn realistically in a personal style. He began his education at the Liceo Artistico and went on to study painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bari. He is inspired by the work of comic authors, like Sergio Toppi, Dino Battaglia and Attilio Micheluzzi, and by that of painters like Paul Gauguin, David Hockney and Lucien Freud. He likes to experiment with new media and with drawing the human figure. As far as working on the computer goes, he likes the different possibilities that each item of software has. He has worked with airbrush, acrylic colours, oil painting, pastel and other media. He likes to experiment and to play and does so with new digital media. In his spare time, he dances Argentine Tango. If he werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an artist, he would be a handyman, actor or dancer. Alternatively, he would be a character from a Moebius or Micheluzzi comic strip. He likes to listen to jazz, rock and classical while he works and taught himself English purely by using computer software!

CARLO MOLINARI

FIONA OSBALDSTONE

Born and bred in Kent, Fiona loved painting as a kid and used to paint her versions of the Disney Characters. She always wanted to do something with art and went to the Kent Institute of Art & Design to see what the possibilities were. David Shepherd and Norman Rockwell are great inspirations for her because of their detail and vastly different styles. She usually works in watercolour but can also do pencil or acrylics depending on what is required. Her style is realistic, but not photo realistic, she just likes it to look as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meant to be. Her work includes natural history, botanical, people and scenes. Outside of the artistic field, although not too far removed, she loves pottery and making and selling her own pieces. She enjoys photography as well as cycling but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not too good at that and invariably ends up in a ditch.

FIONA OSBALDSTONE

JEREMY PYKE

Jeremy began his illustrating career in Bath, England, in 1988, as an airbrush artist, creating artwork for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books. He built up a large commercial client base working for many major companies producing packaging and advertising artwork. Over the years, he moved onto other styles and media: watercolour, oils and so on. He now also uses computers for a variety of illustration projects, for example, instruction manuals, 3D models of buildings and 3D animation. Jeremy considers himself to be a versatile artist, able to deal with any number of subjects and styles.

JEREMY PYKE

JUAN CALLE

A former biologist turned science illustrator, trained at the Science Illustration program at UC Monterrey Bay. He worked early on his illustrator career for field guides of plants and animals of his country of origin, Colombia, and now owns and works in his art Studio, LIBERUM DONUM, doing concept art, storyboarding and his passion: comic books.

JUAN CALLE

MAT EDWARDS

Sponge-like, commercial artist Mat Edwards draws inspiration from the things he sees in daily life. Immersed in his art with his brain “always ticking over”, in his words, or “away with the fairies”, according to his wife, he can create everything from the thoroughly modern to would-have-sworn-it-was-vintage style designs, with the power of precision and repetition as key to the appeal of his works. From the Potteries, he has been passionate about art since childhood, and counts artists such as Chris Foss, Tim White and Rodney Mathews amongst his early inspirations. Such was Mat’s talent at school that he won a four-year apprenticeship with Johnson Mattheys, where he learned at the feet of some tremendously skilled artists such as map makers and engravers. While his talent and eye for detail is a constant, his technique has evolved from using purely traditional materials such as pencils, gouache, stretching paper to using almost all-digital methods – creating works just as before, but without, he says, the clutter ….. after all it is all just “well arranged blobs of paint or pixels.”

MAT EDWARDS

MARC PATTENDEN

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Marc is a self-taught illustrator from Lewes, East Sussex. As a child he drew endlessly, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until his son was born that he rediscovered his love of drawing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both as a way to entertain his son, and as a source of entertainment for himself! Marc now works full time as an illustrator and loves the challenge of bringing to life a range of varied and interesting projects, from space scenes to landscapes and animals. Marc works digitally with the aim of creating colourful engaging work, full of texture and atmosphere. He finds inspiration in gallery shows, museums, books, and from listening to the often wild and wacky stories his children make up! Marc always finds the process of illustration a totally joyful experience and is very glad to have made a career out of it. He hopes to be drawing for years to come.

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MARC PATTENDEN

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NIGEL CHILVERS

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Nigel was born and raised in Aintree, which is just outside Liverpool. After completing an Art Foundation at Hugh Baird College, he went on to study Illustration at Wolverhampton University. He originally trained as a paper based artist until switching over to digital work in 1997. Since then, he has worked for many years freelancing in licensing before arriving at Advocate. Whist working in licensing, he got to work on many character based books for Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the builder, Noddy and much more. Nigel worked for many different publishers in that time and now, under Advocateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guidance, has branched out into many new and different styles

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NIGEL CHILVERS

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OKAN BULBUL

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Okan Bülbül was born in Turkey in 1979. Since childhood, he has loved drawing and painting. He was encouraged by his teachers to attend an art school, but because he was also good at science his parents convinced him that being an engineer would make a better career. He attended a science high school before entering Mechanical Engineering department. After graduating, he started working as an engineer, but he never gave up on art. He became a self-taught illustrator and has taken many freelance jobs. He has illustrated children’s books, fantasy books, and painted portraits and sceneries, game cards etc. He is married and has an adorable 2 and a half year old daughter. Frank Frazetta and Bobby Chiu (quite different styles, yeah :)) are his biggest idols in art. He usually illustrates digitally, but he loves to use traditional media, too. Apart from portraits of his daughter and his wife, he loves drawing cute animals the most.

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OKAN BULBUL

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SARAH GOODREAU

Sarah Goodreau received a B.F.A in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Now based in London, she works with various publications illustrating. Her passion is storytelling through imagery and hopes to continue on with this in many different forms. Sarahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work is a mix of the whimsical and the strange, focusing on humor and beauty. In her down time she takes her dog Battleship Potemkin, on nice dog adventures and is learning how to brew beer. She also art directs for Wizard Fingers, a small animation project she works on with her partner.

SARAH GOODREAU

SIMON MENDEZ

Simon Mendez was born in York and has always loved to draw. He combined his love of the natural world and his meticulous mind when he gained a BA degree in Scientific and Natural History Illustration at Fylde College in Blackpool. Although the majority of his work still concentrates on portraits and aspects of nature, he enjoys illustrating many different subjects and developing different skills and styles in all media as well as recreating vintage and classic styles to help illuminate his interpretations in a visual explanation. Simon spends his spare time away from the drawing board with his kids colouring in and building stuff!

SIMON MENDEZ

SUE DOWNING

Sue lives and works in a little eco house in Newcastle upon Tyne with her husband and two children. She loves to draw, design and make things. Since leaving Edinburgh College of art in the late 1990â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, she has worked in house, on a freelance basis, as an illustrator, product/licensed character developer, a designer/maker for jewellery, greetings cards and wrapping paper......never a dull moment! Her inspirations are many - from knitted toys, Japanese design, and Scandinavian Chic to Modernism, Dick Bruna and Info graphics. She is drawn to anything that is quirky, humorous and minimal in design, and she hopes that is reflected in her illustration. Working with Advocate, and the exciting projects they find for her, means that she is constantly developing and evolving my work, which makes her vey happy, especially when sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s telling stories through illustration.

SUE DOWNING

VAL WALERCZUK

Val is primarily an illustrator, but he also likes to dabble in graphic design, photography and fine art; he feels these all inform his process. He additionally has years of experience in designing and advertising as well as working for publishing houses in Poland and abroad. Although Val has technical skill in his work, he also likes to explore the creativity and concept of an image, after all without creativity art isn’t much fun! He is always on the hunt for new inspiration and ways to improve his craft; recently he has taken a lot of inspiration from nature and photography. Val’s goal is to create work that is visually impossible in the natural world and fill in gaps that mediums like photography can’t.

VAL WALERCZUK

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ADAM HORSEPOOL

Adam is a self taught illustrator and concept designer, who loves Animation and Visual Development. His work is influenced by his illustration heroes, Dice Tsutsumi, Robert Kondo and Jeff Turley. When it comes to film, he definitely looks to Wes Anderson who really pushes artistic boundaries in all of his films. He has tons of “The Art of….” books that are just so inspiring and motivate him to develop his work. He is committed to bring quality illustration and concept art to a wide range of audiences through a variety of different ways and styles. He concentrates on light and colour and make that the driving force of his artwork. Creating images with a lot of texture that enhances the look and feel of his work. He really enjoys the outdoors; days walking with his pooch and a sketchbook in hand can be some of the most enjoyable. He is an incredibly grounded guy who loves the simple life and food. He truly has the best and most chilled job; there aren’t a lot of people who can say they have a hobby as a career!

ADAM HORSEPOOL

ADELE DAFFLON

Adele was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, in 1985. In 2012, she graduated in illustration at Ecole Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc Liège, in Belgium. The same year, she begun to draw birth announcement cards. Slowly but surely she was recognized for what she did. As a result, Adele had been contacted to contribute to different individual and collective projects. Since January 2018, she shares a studio with four great people. She loves drawing anything with regards to nature, animals, insects, always in a very colorful style and genuine humour. Besides her artistic life, Adele is also the co-owner of a famous café in Fribourg. Her days are always different which gives her a lot of energy and motivation.

ADELE DAFFLON

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ADRIANA SANTOS

Adriana Santos was born in Seville, a beautiful city in the South of Spain, and she currently lives in a small town nearby. She studied Fine Arts at Seville University and after working as a graphic designer for almost twelve years she decided to pursue her interest in illustration. It made sense because she had spent most of her time between books and crayons since she was a child. It was a great decision! She loves saturating her work with good moods, playful banter, hidden details, vibrant colours and a little bit of tenderness. She usually likes to mix the warm feeling of the pencils and pen with the bright and intense colours of digital in her work and to add warm textures. In her free time, she reads books and hangs out with her children: two big sources of inspiration for her work. She simply adores what she does and she always says that there is never a dull moment.

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ADRIANA SANTOS

ALAN BROWN

Alan is a freelance artist who started out as a storyboard artist for a London agency, before returning back to his roots in the North East to pursue a career in graphic design. As much as he loved working in design for large blue chip clients, Alanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love has always been illustration, so 13 years on, via a stint as a tattoo artist he arrived at Advocateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s door. Since Joining Advocate Art a year and a half ago Alan has been fortunate to work on a variety of jobs including Ben 10 Omniverse graphic novels for Viz Media, as well as childrens book illustrations for the likes of Harper Collins and Watts. He can turn his hand to many styles to suit the client, but with a keen interest in the comic book world he is at home working on bold graphic pieces and strip work. Working from an attic studio along with his trusty side kick, Ollie the miniature schnauzer (miniature in size, giant in personality and appetite), and his two sons Wilf and Teddy.

ALAN BROWN

ALESSANDRA FUSI

Alessandra Fusi was born in Rome in 1984, where she attended the IED Institute of Art and Design, graduating in Illustration and Multimedia Animation in 2006. Since then, she has worked as an illustrator of children’s books, puzzle games and stationery products. As a painter, she has exhibited her work in various solo and collective art shows accross Italy, Europe and the United States. She has a true passion for animation and loves all things illustration, so she’s always learning new things, as well as teaching them, through the courses and workshops that she organizes for her cultural association “Imagoblu”, based in Bologna. Currently, she lives and works in Bologna, with her two loved ones: her boyfriend and her chubby ginger cat, Rino. She loves fairytales, tea, music, swing dancing, and cats (of course).

ALESSANDRA FUSI

ALESSANDRO VALDRIGHI

Alessandro was born in February 1980 in a beautiful little place called Castiglione della Pescaia, just by the sea. He studied in Florence and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from prestigious “Accademia delle Belle Arti” as a set designer. Before going to university, as a child, Alessandro started drawing by copying comics and illustrations from books. He believes that’s the main reason he is able to tackle multiple styles and enjoys the challenge each respective style brings. He worked as a cartoonist, illustrator and concept artist (his favourite), with traditional and digital media. Alessandro also won a prize for his comic called “Lagrimas en la lluvia”, featured as the best comic book publication published in Spain in 2011.

ALESSANDRO VALDRIGHI

ALFREDO BELLI

Alfredo Belli lives and works in Rome. He illustrates childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books and school books on behalf of various publishers, spanning age ranges from preschool through teen. He also contributes to advertising, graphic and web design agencies. He uses a wide-range of styles and techniques as digital or traditional as pencils, inks, watercolours, acrylics and mixed media

ALFREDO BELLI

ALIDA MASSARI

Alida Massari is an Italian artist specializing in illustration for children, including picture books and stationery products. Alida was born in Rome, where she qualified in art at the high school and then went on to specialise in illustration at the European Institute of Design. She has always loved art from a young age. She finds inspiration for her work from the architectural details of the ancient buildings, from the folk traditions and ancient art. She likes travelling and sketching everything that catches her eye in her countless sketch books! She loves fairy tales, ancient myths, folk stories, Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories and everyday life! She has illustrated many books, collaborating with Italian, English, German, Australian and American publishers. Her books have been translated in numerous countries. She has taken part in many collective illustration exhibitions in Italy and elsewhere in Europe.

ALIDA MASSARI

AMERIGO PINELLI

Amerigo Pinelli lives in the heart of the city of Naples, Italy, among narrow streets and old churches. A long time ago, when he was a child, he met a pencil, and from that moment on he started to play, joke, fight, and make peace with it. He studied in the Art School of Naples and the Comic School of his hometown. After this he specialised in illustration at the International School of Illustration S. ZavĹ&#x2122;el. He worked for animation and for publishing. He thinks making a living from doing the thing he enjoys the most is a great gift and he considers himself very lucky. He works digital but always does a pencil drawing first. Sometimes he misses the feeling of getting his hands dirty with watercolors, tempera, acrylic or inks, so he prefer to use all the tools depending on the job. Also he feels mixing techniques is always fun! His two daughters Chiara and Teresa made his life full of color and joy. They are really unpredictable! For him and his wife Giulia itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to get bored.

AMERIGO PINELLI

ANDREA ROSSETTO

Andrea was born and currently works in Vincenza. He graduated with a Discipline of the arts, music and entertainment from the University of Bologna. Since 2004, he has been working as an illustrator and cartoonist for several publishers. His interest in arts began with cartoons and comics, which led him to his three-dimensional style that is in some cases realistic and in others more cartoon. Over the years he realised his style was more suitable for illustration for children, especially the young sector. He prefers this because it gives him the opportunity to create humorous characters and use bright colours inspired by his favourite cartoons. He loves drawing nature and he loves his job because it is very varied and gives him the chance to experiment. He REALLY loves his job because it allows him to communicate in an essential way through colour and line. He loves his family and walks in the mountain forests with clouds passing by, and Enyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music while he works. Oh and he also loves good beer.

ANDREA ROSSETTO

12 BASIA TRAN

Basia Tran is always an illustrator, often a designer, and sometimes an animator. Born and raised in Cracow, Poland, brought up in a Vietnamese household, she completed her studies at Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida. Consistently inconsistent, partially thanks to her upbringing, with a deep passion for variety and diversity in the world she pursues that in her life and work, hoping to beautifully share the truths she sees even if sometimes sad or bittersweet. Not always consistently inconsistent, the constants she treasures deeply are her dear family, her dear friends, and the constant urge to make jokes and understand more of the world, as long as chemistry, biology, and physics are not involved. In her free time she successfully makes playlists inspired by her favorite movies, and dances a little less successfully to them.

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BEATRIZ CASTRO

Beatriz Castro was born on September 19, 1985, in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain.When she was a little girl, she was always drawing and was writing fantastic stories. She studied at the school of arts in her native town, Logroño. After graduating in Illustration at the School of arts in Logroño from 2004 to 2008, she embarked on a career as a professional illustrator. Her books have been published by many international publishing houses: Anaya (Spain), Ediciones SM (Spain), Oxford University Press (Spain and England), Usborne (England), Harper Collins (England), Auzou (France), Rovio (Finland)... Beatriz’s illustrations appear in text books, illustrated books and covers. She loves to make colored illustrations and funny character designs. She likes animals and books, classic stories and fairy tales and listens to rock and punk music.

BEATRIZ CASTRO

CARLO MOLINARI

CAROLINA DELAVY CHAGAS

Carolina is a Brazilian illustrator that started her artistic journey at the age of 5 by drawing her momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen over and over again. She studied graphic design at the Federal University of Santa Maria but has always been passionate about illustration and took this time to develop her style. She also passed by Dublin Institute of Technology during a sandwich graduation program when she traveled all around Europe and discovered many different cultures. She loves mixing up textures on her work, trying out new colour schemes and drawing silly dogs! But above all, she hopes to inspire people all ages with bright and funny characters.

CAROLINA DELAVY CHAGAS

CAROLINE ROMANET

After graduating Emile Cohl Arts School in Lyon quite a while ago, Caroline Romanet became a 3D artist for a French Videogame Company. Although the job was interesting, she didn’t enjoy herself that much and was feeling like a bird in a cage! She then thought she’d be happier trying to become a children’s book illustrator. Most fortunately, it worked ! A couple of years later, she had the craziest desire to become an « international » illustrator, especially to get published in the United Kingdom as she’s deeply attached to this country. She started to look for an illustrator agency and had the pleasure to be accepted by Advocate Art. Since then she has been working everywhere around the world. She is now thinking of writing her own stories. Who knows, that could work too! She also teaches digital illustration and charcoal drawings at Emile Cohl’s School of Arts in Lyon.

CAROLINE ROMANET

CESAR SAMANIEGO

Cesar was born in Barcelona in 1975. He grew up smelling his father’s oils, reading his comic books and trying to paint over his illustrations (he was so happy to see the way he could improve his father’s work). But until he met his wife he didn’t realize that he wanted to be an illustrator. So he went to Llotja Arts and crafts school and graduated with honors in 2010. Since then, he has published many books and app-books, worked in textbooks for schools and as a layout artist for animation. Also, with his wife they have their own children’s clothes trademark. Now he lives in Canet de Mar, a small town on the coast of Barcelona with his wife, his daughter, five cats and a crazy dog.

CESAR SAMANIEGO

CHELLIE CARROLL

Ever since being able to hold chunky crayons and deface her bedroom walls with them, Chellie has loved to draw. After studying Applied Arts at the University of Derby and a brief spell working as a designer within the retail industry, Chellie turned to Illustration and hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t looked back. Chellie enjoys experimenting with mixed media and is increasingly rediscovering pens, pencils and paint and incorporating these with her detailed computer-based vector line work. She enjoys creating intricate patterns and striking compositions with elegant, flowing lines. Chellie now lives in the Peak District with her partner and two children, working from her home studio, where she is surrounded by the beautiful, inspirational countryside and a plentiful supply of tea and biscuits.

CHELLIE CARROLL

CHRISTIAN CORNIA

Christian Cornia is a Character Designer, Illustrator and Comic Artist from Modena (Italy). When he was 4 years old, reading a comic book, he decided that he would be a comic artist and not an astronaut like other children. He is currently teaching character design at the Scuola Internazionale di Comics of Reggio Emilia. In addition, he is part of the Italian community of Urban Sketchers. He works digitally but remains a secret lover of the pencil and he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move without a sketchbook in his bag. He has created artwork and characters for publishers, advertising, video games and role-playing games, working as a colorist for the French market and as an inker for Marvel USA. He is currently one of the artists for Scooby Doo in Italy for Piemme Edizioni and he works on several books with Warner Bros Characters, including Scooby Doo.

CHRISTIAN CORNIA

CHRISTOPHER ABLES

Christopher Ables is a digital illustrator and graphic artist based out of Los Angeles, CA. A self taught and natural artist, Christopher has been drawing since he was a child. After relocating from San Antonio, TX to Los Angeles to pursue an education in the arts, he went on to work within the film and television industry after receiving degrees in Studio Arts and Digital Filmmaking. Heavily influenced by Disney animation and his role model Tim Burton, Christopherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work can best be described as a whimsical love letter to pop culture. Currently Christopher holds the position of Senior Motion Graphics Designer for the visual effects company, Ingenuity Studios. Outside of work, he is developing an animated series and self publishing a graphic novel. In his free time, he can be found drawing, sensing incoming intense weather patterns, quoting lines from 30 ROCK and The Golden Girls, carrying on conversations about Dinosaurs, finishing off an entire cake with little to no shame and falling in love with every dog he sees.

CHRISTOPHER ABLES

DAMIAN ZAIN

Damian Zain was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1974, he still lives there. From a very young age he wanted to be a artist, he grew up admiring great cartoonist like Quino, Roberto Fontanarrosa, Guillermo Divitio, Alberto Uderzo, Carlos Nine ... and many, many more !!! He learned a lot from Ruben Albarracín, a plastic artist, also from Buenos Aires (his uncle) who guided him in the first steps. Then, at age 14, he took comic classes with Oswal at Carlos Garaycochea’s drawing school. He worked for a children’s audience and he loved adding big doses of humor. He colours digitally but he prefers the traditional pencil and paper for the first sketch. He usually draws while listening to music and his dog Dorothy leaves him alone if he starts singing. He supposes that she does not have good musical taste.

DAMIAN ZAIN

DIANE LE FEYER

Diane was born and raised in France, and started drawing at a very young age. It’s always been clear to her that she would make a living drawing, and so she oriented her studies after High School toward Art. She can work from home, but she has an office where she is very productive, and that she shares with fellow artists. She doesn’t feel like she’s in a cave solo working! She loves Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian illustration and finds lots of inspiration there, both in styles and mood. France has a lot of castles and stories to be inspired from, and she loves to look for the proper dress/style/castle. She has two kids, and her daughter who’s 5 and an half is already showing amazing drawing skills. She’s so proud! Maybe she’ll be an illustrator too, who knows?

DIANE LE FEYER

EMILIANO MIGLIARDO

Emilano Migliardo is a cartoon illustrator represented by Advocate Art. He has always wanted to be a cartoonist, ever since watching them as a child. His favourite shows were The Pink Panther, The Three Stooges and The Simpsons, along with others. Along with cartoons he was and still is inspired by the drawings of Robert Crumb, Matt Groening, Shultz and Don Martin. Emiliano feels that his style generally reflects his personality in some ways; his work tends to be neat, well defined, fun and colorful. He worked for many publishers; Igloo books, Bloomsbury, QED publishing, Editions Caramel, Klutz, Pearson Australia, etc. He lives in Buenos Aires, but he will move next year to Spain along with his family.

EMILIANO MIGLIARDO

EUGENIA NOBATI

Eugenia Nobati was born in 1968, Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she still lives with her family, two cats and a dog. Started as a Graphic Designer in 1990, but in 1997, she decided to dedicate her time exclusively to illustration, mostly to children’s books. Eugenia has worked with all kinds of stuff, from postage stamps to packaging to character designs for animation, always in her own style. Over the years, her work has been published in nine countries and more than forty books. She was selected among 16 illustrators, representing Argentina in Bratislava’s Bienal 2012. In 2014, she was recognised by ALIJA, Argentina’s section of IBBY, for the best illustrated book.

EUGENIA NOBATI

EVA MORALES

Eva was born and raised in Matarรณ, 30km from Barcelona in Spain, where she currently lives. She has been drawing since she can remember. She has two older sisters; one is a painter and the other one is a musician. Arts and crafts were very normal in her childhood home. In the nineties, when she watched a local TV series issued by Akira Toriyama, she knew she wanted to work in the animation world. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, but she taught herself digital painting. Her personal motivation is to experiment and improve her digital art, and be able to publish her work with great illustrators like Jason Chan or Paul Bonner. Her inspirations are Studio Ghibli: Castle in the Sky, her neighbour Totoro, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Ponyo and animators and cartoonists like Chris Sanders, Don Bluth and Glen Keane.

EVA MORALES

EVELT YANAIT

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Evelt Yanait is a a freelance childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artist from Barcelona, where she grew up drawing and reading wonderful illustrated books. After graduating in Communication and receiving her postgraduate degrees in Graphic design and Creativity & Advertising (ElisavaUPF), she worked as a graphic designer for many years, while studying illustration, attending many art courses, workshops and life-drawing classes, until she could focus on illustration only, working for board games, books editorials and some NGOs. In her illustrations, she intends to capture not only the funny-joyful-carefree side of life, but also the tenderness and sensibility. In order to do so she uses soft colours as well as careful lighting while intending to make expressive faces with which people can emotionally empathize. She works using digital techniques. She loves to write, read and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an enthusiast of documentaries, especially of history, human sciences and education.

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EVELT YANAIT

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GABRIELLE ESPOSITO

Gabrielle Esposito is an illustrator whose work is characterized by lively kids, animal characters, and scenes rich with detail. She strives to capture the feelings that make everyday moments special and memorable. Her art portrays characters and scenes with a depth of emotion, whether fun and whimsical or more dramatic. Gabrielle resides in the city of Chicago and graduated with a BFA in Illustration from the American Academy of Art. She got her first illustration job her senior year of high school, creating artwork for the children’s book “The Story of Snowy Bear and the Lost Scarf,” and has wanted to work in illustration ever since. When not drawing and painting, she can be found spending time outdoors, kayaking and hiking, gardening, and visiting zoos and museums. Her constant source of inspiration is her orange and white cat who also serves

GABRIELLE ESPOSITO

JACQUI DAVIS

Jacqui, also known as the Logic Fairy if you’ve ever tried to watch TV with her, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved to the UK as a child. She currently lives and works in Lytham-St-Annes, which is great for walks through the woods, or ambles along the estuary. She’s been producing art for children’s books and board games since 2012, after studying Animation at Staffordshire University. She enjoys painting everything from adorable animals to villainous wizards, bringing life to characters is something she’s always been passionate about in her work. As long as there’s a good audiobook or movie on in the background she’s happy, and when she’s not painting she enjoys keeping the creative mojo going by doing a spot of writing.

JACQUI DAVIS

JENNIFER DAVISON

Jennifer Davison is an illustrator from Northern Ireland. She works at home, in her little studio packed full of children’s books and toys. Jennifer has worked in the animation industry but she recently left to pursue her passion in children’s picture books. She loves the playfulness of producing work for children. It takes her back to being a child herself, spending hours creating imaginary worlds and characters. When illustrating for children, she tries to look again at the world through the eyes of a child. Although, she doesn’t think she has ever actually ‘grown up’ so it doesn’t take much for her to regress to childhood again! Jennifer’s childhood is a constant source of inspiration for her work. The things that she learned and experienced when she was younger have shaped who she is today. It’s wonderful to have the opportunity to inspire children. She was fortunate enough to grow up in a house were creativity was encouraged. Her mum is an artist, so creating art has always been part of her life.

JENNIFER DAVISON

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A former biologist turned science illustrator, trained at the Science Illustration program at UC Monterrey Bay. He worked early on hisillustrator career for field guides of plants and animals of hiscountry of origin, Colombia, and now owns and works in his art Studio, LIBERUM DONUM, doing concept art, storyboarding and his passion: comic books.

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A former biologist turned science illustrator, trained at the Science Illustration program at UC Monterrey Bay. He worked early on hisillustrator career for field guides of plants and animals of hiscountry of origin, Colombia, and now owns and works in his art Studio, LIBERUM DONUM, doing concept art, storyboarding and his passion: comic books.

JUDIT FRIGOLA

Born in Figueres, in the north of Catalonia, on a full moon night of 1985, it was difficult for Judit to choose between becoming a judge or a chemist, so she opted for her great passion–drawing–and with it, illustration. Trained in graphic design at Eina Escola of Art and Design in Barcelona, Judit later specialized in illustration at La Llotj, where everything became clear to her. Or almost everything. She uses a cunning, crafted and colorful style that mutates and adapts. Among other things, she has illustrated children’s stories, magazines, textbooks and any other interesting proposals that have crossed her path, especially when it has to do with children or youth. She currently lives and works in her native Empordà. When somebody calls her to head up a new project, she jumps up and dances in a way you’ve never seen. Every time. Her cat looks at her in a funny way. When she is not at the studio, you can find Judit dancing Lindy hop or reading and labeling books in her bookstore. She knows, it sounds great.

JUDIT FRIGOLA

LAURA TOLTON

Laura has always enjoyed drawing and has always felt her life would involve the arts, be it drawing, painting, acting or costume design. The English countryside, where she lives, provides inspiration and solace for her to work. Laura graduated from the University of East London in 2009 with a degree in Graphic Arts and Illustration. Her work includes books such as Robin Hood, Alice in Wonderland, American GirlÂŽ and Boudicca.

LAURA TOLTON

LUDOVIC SALLE

With a degree in visual communication, Ludovic imagines how illustrations appear to many customers. He likes to make them travel in time with colorful and attractive pictures, installing them in scenes that include aesthetic, funny or offbeat characters. His style varies according to demand, from cartoon to more realistic. It forms a creative universe under many influences, which makes it very unique. Ludovic likes challenges and thinks outside the box, so do not hesitate to use his creativity for your projects!

LUDOVIC SALLE

MARIA LIA MALANDRINO

Maria Lia is an illustrator and concept artist from Italy. Originally a self-taught artist, she grew up with Disney movies, Italian comic books (W.I.T.C.H., Corto Maltese, Dylan Dog) and Japanese anime (the work of mangaka Rumiko Takahashi and the inspiring imagination of Hayao Miyazaki), the mix of which helped develop her own style. She spent most of her formative years in England, gaining her BA in Magazine Publishing from the University of the Arts London, and then working and travelling in Asia. She has worked in several industry fields as a graphic designer, animator and concept artist, always feeling compelled to tell stories through pictures, be it in the form of a short movie or a videogame. She is now based in Turin, where she lives with Muta, a small raccoon dog from China, and works as a concept and story artist in animation and gaming

MARIA LIA MALANDRINO

MARTIN BUSTAMANTE

Martin Bustamante is an illustrator and painter from Argentina. At the age of 3 he was able to draw a horse â&#x20AC;&#x153;starting by the tailâ&#x20AC;?, as his mother always says. As a teenager, he found movies like Star Wars and books from Prince Valiant to Harold Foster, new and fascinating worlds full of colors, shapes and atmospheres that became his inspiration for drawing. Since that moment, drawing and painting have been his passions. He started working as a professional illustrator and has worked for several editorials and magazines, from Argentina to the USA to Europe.

MARTIN BUSTAMANTE

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MAURIZIO CAMPIDELLI

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Maurizio is an illustrator because he was in a… crash! When he was a baby, he had his right leg broken in an accident! The following months he spent in bed, reading comics. This took place around 1966. During that time, he started to love these worlds of amazing adventure, humour, action and fantasy. This was the main reason that he became an illustrator. In that time, his “teachers” were the Marvel Comics‘ team from the 70’s! This was around 1986. Then he worked mainly with advertising agencies, publishers, graphic design studios… Thanks to Advocate Art he had his debut outside Italy in 2010. Maurizio doesn‘t have time for much outside of work! He lives in Rimini, a famous tourist city on the East Coast of Italy. In the summer, he loves to spend his time on the beach, running, biking on the boardwalk. Or in full relax mode with a drink, watching the sunset! But if it’s raining, cinema and TV series are his salvation!

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MAURIZIO CAMPIDELLI

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MICHELLE SIMPSON

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Michelle Simpson is Canadian born and grew up in the forests of Niagara Falls Ontario. She is heavily inspired by nature and mythical folktales. Michelle uses a combination of digital and traditional media for her art. Michelle graduated from Sheridan Collage with a BAA in Illustration, she is now a full-time freelancer and works with KeyFrame Digital Productions; where she creates artwork for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s television shows such as: Tee and Mo, and Season 2 of Ollie: The Boy Who Became What He Ate. She also wrote and illustrated the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book Monsters In My House, and illustrated Hanukkah Harvie Vs. Santa Claus by David Michael Slater & Published by Library Tales Publishing. In her spare time, Michelle likes to garden, go for forest walks, and annoy her cats Sushi and Mr.Pounce with endless amounts of love.

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MICHELLE SIMPSON

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MIGUEL RIVAS

Miguel was born in a small town in the south of Spain, called Cabra. At the age of 18 he moved to Seville to study Media and Communications. He learned how to use the audioviusal language to tell stories and how the media field works. When he finished college he moved to the UK. He lived in London for almost two years and studied Illustration at the Central Saint Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Art. After that he moved to Madrid, where he lives now, and studied Illustration and Animation at E.S.D.I.P. Nowadays Miguel works as a freelance artist for educational books publishing and contributes to advertising agencies, making illustrations and animations. He mainly does cartoon illustrations, but likes to try different things. He also makes limited animations with after effects and drawing comics. He loves trying new things and challenging himself.

MIGUEL RIVAS

MONICA ARMINO

Monica Armiño is a Spanish freelance illustrator. She graduated in Fine Arts and is based in Madrid, with an extensive knowledge of both digital and traditional techniques. She is able to draw in many different styles and she loves to experiment with light, color and textures. She has always been interested in focusing her career on children illustration and cartoons, and she has published several books with various publishers and agencies in Europe and USA. She also works for the animation industry as a character designer, background artist and color and texture artist, for feature films and pre-school TV series, like the winning-award “Puffin Rock” (Cartoon Saloon/ Dog Ears/ Penguin books) and the popular Spanish cartoon “Pocoyo” (Zinkia Entertainment).

MONICA ARMINO

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Pablo Pino was born in August 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He grew up watching cartoons, playing football and drawing a lot. These days, he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t watch as much TV and he only plays football once a week, but Pablo still has the joy of painting every day. Why? Because, for the last 10 years, he has been working as a professional illustrator for different print media. What he enjoys the most is illustrating books for children and teenagers. Besides the 40 published books he has illustrated, among novels and tales he also does characters designs, board games and collaborate on designs for schoolbooks and magazines with various worldwide publishing companies. Pablo is self- taught and his illustrations are mostly computer drawn but he always adds textures that he makes with pencils, crayons, acrylics and pretty much any material that letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s him get messy like he was when he was a child.

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PACO SORDO

Paco Sordo is a Spanish freelance illustrator with more of a decade of experience working in comics, animation, advertising and picture books. His clients include Nickelodeon, Rovio, Cartoon Network and Hallmark among others. He lives in Madrid and is passionate about science fiction novels, comic-books and cinema. The legend tells that no one can beat him playing Tetris.

PACO SORDO

PAPPY ONWUAGBU

Pappy Onwuagbu lives in a small town by the sea in the Western Cape of South Africa. He has a need to make and create things and the best way he knows how is through art. His influences range from experiences as small as watching a child smile, to funny stories, puns, seeing other art influences like cartoons, other artist’s work…the list is really endless. Pappy’s work is very diverse, the reason being that the clients he has worked with request various art styles per project, so it’s up to him to deliver their vision. He’s been lucky enough to have been published in books, top ranking games and movies. When he’s not busy doing anything visual art related, he plays the guitar or plays around with making music digitally.

PAPPY ONWUAGBU

PARWINDER SINGH SONI

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Born and brought up in the Steel City, Jamshedpur, drawing has been Parwinderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hobby and passion since childhood (so he took it as his career). Parwinder spent the early years of his career in classical 2D animation but eventually he was fascinated by various styles of illustrations and was driven to the beautiful world of Children Books. Parwinder works on and creates many different styles of illustrations for numerous books with his Wacom pen. Drawing and coloring for almost 14 years with different Art Studios and Companies, he finally decided to go at it alone. Freelancing has given Parwinder the chance he always wanted â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he is able to explore more styles and travel to different places. Parwinder loves to work Digitally

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PARWINDER SINGH SONI

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PIPI SPOSITO

Pipi was born in Buenos Aires in the fabulous 60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and has always drawn. As a little child, he used to make plasticine figures too. He took them along to school as a hobby and at the age of 19 he found out he could earn a living by drawing. Pipi started designing humor magazines and was surrounded by the original drawings of many experimented artists. At the same time, he was encouraged to publish his own works. His curiosity lead him from then onwards. Pipiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drawings are usually funny and expressive. He develops cartoons and children illustration in different artistic styles, and also 3D figures and puppets. He does some caricaturing as well, and he has done character design for animation, key animation and layouts. Pipi listens to music when he works. He loves Zappa, Bowie, Queen and he is fond of Progressive Rock. .

PIPI SPOSITO

ROGER SIMO

Roger Simรณ is an illustrator based in a town near Barcelona, where he lives with his wife, son, and daughter. He has become the person that he would have envied when he was a child: someone who makes a living by drawing and explaining fantastic stories. Among his many projects, he is most proud of the first book he wrote and illustrated about his first child.

ROGER SIMO

SARAH HOYLE

Sarah is an illustrator living and working in between the dreamy spires of Oxford, UK. She has always loved drawing, especially creating characters and scenes because she thinks people are endlessly fascinating and entertaining! Her illustrations usually start as hand-drawn line art in pen or pencil before working them up in Photoshop or Illustrator. When sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not in the studio, she likes being out in the Oxfordshire countryside with her friends, making screen prints and attempting some experimental vegan cooking, nearly always sound tracked to 6Music.

SARAH HOYLE

SARAH LAWRENCE

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Sarah lives and works in Worthing, on the sunny South coast of England with her daughter, who is a daily source of inspiration. Since graduating in 2006, Sarah has worked in childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s publishing, both in-house and freelance. She creates bright and engaging digital illustrations using Illustrator and Photoshop. In her free time, Sarah loves to paint, play guitar and bake cakes. But not all at once.

SARAH LAWRENCE

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SERENA LOMBARDO

Serena Lombardo was born in Naples, Italy. She graduated from the Naples Fine Arts Academy, and then followed her dream specializing in Illustration and Concept Art at Scuola Italiana di Comix. After that, she expanded her craft by taking courses in Character Design at Geko: The Guru Lab. As a child, she dreamed of being a valiant knight, and she found her true Excalibur in a pencil. Travel, movies, videogames, fantasy and sci-fi books, are a continuing source of inspiration to her for finding new ways to illustrate stories. She loves to use vibrant colours and funny elements - she has found her call in digital painting. She currently lives in her hometown and, in her free time, she loves playing videogames and travelling the world with her boyfriend. Drawing fantastic and adventurous worlds has always been her passion, and making others dream by telling stories through illustrations her mission.

SERENA LOMBARDO

STEFANO TAMBELLINI

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stefano Tambellini was born in 1983 in a small town of Tuscany (Italy). He graduated in Traditional Hand-drawn Animation at the National film school in Torino. Then he moved to London, where he lived for 5 years, and started to work as an illustrator. Bloomsbury, Barrington Stoke, Harper Collins, Workman Publishing, Rizzoli and many others have published his drawings. He loves to illustrate monsters, creepy ghost stories, old classics, mystery tales and atmospheric fairytales. His main influences in drawing are Edward Gorey, Mervyn Peake, Shigeru Mizuki, Charles Addams and Joann Sfar.

STEFANO TAMBELLINI

THANOS TSILIS

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Thanos Tsilis was born on June 14, 1977 in Athens, Greece where he was also raised. Since 2016 he has lived in Athens, Greece and Nicosia, Cyprus, as he moves too often from one place to the other. He studied and graduated as a graphic artist initially but his passion for drawing things led him into classes again for 3 more years, this time studying illustration and 2d animation. Starting a career in 2002 as a freelancer in a small country forced Thanos to become quite versatile in order to have jobs coming in. In the past he has done realistic illustrations, cartoon illustrations, he has worked as a 2d animator, as a game artist, advertising artist, and of course as a children’s book illustrator which he likes the most. He personally loves to draw stylized characters semi-realistic with a cartoony sense of exaggeration, classic buildings, cities and historical themes. He loves to make children’s book art from 5+ to young adults colored or black and white and he has a flare for history. Thanos’ art represents a good knowledge of the fundamentals of art. Structure, anatomy, perspective and color theory is what he believes that an artist must keep exercising during all of his/her career. “Fashion comes and goes, styles can be developed, but if you don’t have a strong grip of the fundamentals as an artist you are sooner or later doomed !“

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THANOS TSILIS

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UTA KROGMANN

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Born in 1970, Uta grew up in the South of Germany. When she was little, her sister and her and a neighbour boy had a great time designing their own comic magazines. Uta’s art tends to be very colourful – when she was in sixth grade she found a shawl just so overwhelmingly beautiful with a tag „made in India“ that she decided in that second that she had to go where such things were created – and so Uta has been travelling and working in India many times. She draws a lot on the iPad - the perfect device to carry around and even to travel with. She can work everywhere! Trained as a photographer and later as a graphic designer (mainly for fashion) she has always been in touch with visuals and she has worked in many art related areas. She loves to read or to be read to – luckily this is possible while working! Listening to podcasts and audiobooks is just fantastic.

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UTA KROGMANN

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VENETIA DEAN

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Growing up, I was raised by very opposing parents. My mother is a graphic designer that created editorial campaigns for an advertising company, and my dad is an engineer who designs for the automotive industry Surrounded by these split interests, I was brought up to have this mix of skills, it must be in my genes! Little did I know then, I would be combining these backgrounds into a career of my own. In school I studied both engineering and design, and upon graduating I started designing pamphlets and diagrams that showcased science experiments in a fun and positive light. As my career and my passion, I want my designs to encourage young readers to be curious and take part in the world of scientific exploration. I am thrilled Advocate Art have chosen me and I have been working on childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book projects, classroom guides, infographics and teaching aids since day 1!

VENETIA DEAN

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YISHAN LI

Yishan Li is a professional British comic/manga artist currently living in Shanghai. Yishan Li has been drawing since 1998 and has been published internationally including USA, France, Germany, Italy and the UK. She has worked for a lot of big name publishers including DC and Darkhorse and is currently the artist for the Buffy The Vampire Slayer graphic novels.

YISHAN LI

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AMANDA ENRIGHT

Amanda completed a BA in Graphic Design at Camberwell college and an MA in animation at the Royal college of Art. She worked in the greeting card and animation industry for several years before going freelance. She lives with her family in West Sussex and works in her garden studio on a vast range of projects, many of which are childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books and products.

AMANDA ENRIGHT

ANDY CATLING

Andy Catling is a professional illustrator with more than 40 illustrated titles under his belt. He works in traditional mediums and digital wot-nots to make artwork with a rigorous mangle-like process. First he draws a picture. Then he rubs it out and draws it again. He colours using watercolour, pencils and ink, sniffs it, screws it up and starts over. The digital work process is much the same but without the sniffing. (All digital artwork smells of screen wipe.) Andy has worked for many different publishing houses such as Usborne, Oxford University Press, QED, Franklin Watts and others.

ANDY CATLING

ANDY ROWLAND

Andy has always loved drawing; one of his earliest memories is of his dad bringing home reams of scrap paper from the printers for him to use because he went through so much. Eventually he went on to study Illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University, where, during his second year he won the Macmillan prize for the design and illustration of a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book. Since then he has worked freelance, mainly on childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books, illustrating over one hundred books for clients such as Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Usborne, Hachet, Lerner, Pearson, Franklin Watts, OUP and many others. He has also worked artistically in the voluntary sector as well as mural work, portraiture, printed products and surface pattern design. Andy lives in Greater Manchester, England, with his partner and two children.

ANDY ROWLAND

ANNA SHUTTLEWOOD

Anna comes from Bulgaria. She has a degree in Mural Painting and Fine Art from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, but is now based in South West England. Her art education was very traditional; she was taught a lot of art history, theory and practical techniques, which, she thinks, is why she now enjoys what she does so much. Her parents are both artists so she doesn’t think it ever occurred to her that she could’ve had any other profession! Her work varies greatly in style but is always friendly, welcoming and approachable. She creates an enthralling atmosphere with witty intricate detail; she likes the idea of having a ‘before’ and ‘after’ and that her picture is only a momentous peek into a better, more friendly and happier world. She looks for inspiration in everyday things; funny things she reads in the paper or books, seeing new places and people and situations she witnesses or imagines. Sometimes, a single thought can inspire her to create a whole new series of works!

ANNA SHUTTLEWOOD

ANNIE WILKINSON

Annie was born in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1966 to a family that encouraged artistic pursuits of all kinds including writing, drawing, photography and music. At the age of 21 she came to Vancouver with the band she was in, in order to find a new drummer (they would eventually go through 8 before disbanding). Annie had not considered being an illustrator in spite of drawing her whole life, but now that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing it she cannot imagine any other job she would like to do more. The artwork she produces is created digitally using her iPad pro, either with native apps or as a graphics tablet, and she is interested in juxtaposing traditional looking elements with purely digital elements to create something that looks new. Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work is constantly evolving. When sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not drawing or pouring juice for her two kids, she plays in a few bands with good friends, where the socializing is as important as the singing together. Lastly, in order to clear her head of everything else, she loves to engage in a weekly game of ice hockey in the winter, and baseball in the summer.

ANNIE WILKINSON

06 ANUKI LOPEZ

Anuki is twenty-five years old and studied Fine Arts Grade at the University of Seville in Spain. She has been drawing since she can remember; a notebook and colour pencils were her favorite toys. Once she’d grown up, she studied Art and Graphic Design Art in university. In her final year, she discovered the fantastic world of children illustration and fell in love with it. She loves working and living her life as an illustrator, creating children’s illustrations that are full of color, magic, humour, animals, respect and, of course, love. Since she graduated a year ago, she has been thinking about her own projects, such as “Coco & Cookie” and “The Seven Crows”, she has illustrated some book covers, like “Burbuja Espejo” by Carmen M. Lobato (Editorial Seler) and she has written and illustrated a tale for a Movies, Series and Comic event in Seville (SevillaFicción). She really likes drawing with colour pencils, watercolour and pastel wax colours, but digital drawings give much more freedom, so she likes to mix traditional and digital methods into one. Anuki’s project, ‘Coco & Cookie’, is based on her relationship with her dog and all the good things it has given her.

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AYESHA LOPEZ

Ayesha L. Rubio was born in Madrid, Spain, one cold afternoon in February in 1981. Like many other children, she loves drawing, but unfortunately for her family, any surface is an empty canvas for her... Her grandfather taught her how to draw horses and to choose paper instead of furniture or walls, as a better material to draw on. Years later, she studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University in Madrid, and finished her degree in Leeds, England. Later on she specialised in illustration in Serra I Abellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art school in Barcelona, and started to work as an illustrator collaborating with national and international publishers. Currently she has two of her own books, published in national and international markets (and a third about to be launched), all of them translated into various languages. Her latest journey has led her to London, where she has started to explore the animation world, an art form she has always been in love with, and she wants to incorporate this discipline to her tool kit to develop her art a step further in her professional career. Ayesha currently lives in London, and feels fortunate to turn her passion into work.

AYESHA LOPEZ

CLAIRE O’BRIEN

Claire is an Irish illustrator who loves bright colours, picture-books, folk-art, and collecting woolly hats. She holds an M.A. in film-direction and production from the National University of Ireland, and undergraduate degrees in Music and Media Communications Studies from the University of Limerick and the University of Glamorgan. Her passion for travel and learning about different cultures has brought her to beautiful Hong Kong, where she really enjoys eating more egg-tarts than she should and avoiding busy train platforms. She also enjoys extreme jigsaw puzzling (it’s not, but it sounds a lot cooler when you say it that way), and pronounces the letter ‘r’ like ‘oar’ (it’s an Irish thing). And, once upon a time when she was but a smallie herself, she decided to eat one of her yellow and black stripy flip-flops. But in her defense, it did look pretty delicious.

CLAIRE O’BRIEN

DAVID CREIGHTON-PESTER

David (a.k.a. Wandering Bert) was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, in the eighties, where he also currently lives and works. Inspired as a child by picture books, animation, and all things artsy, he spent endless hours drawing crazy characters and coming up with silly stories. Now, as an adult, he is still inspired by picture books, animation, and all things artsy. And he still spends endless hours drawing crazy characters and coming up with silly stories. He is passionate about illustrating for children, especially picture books, and is particularly excited by the opportunity to bring fun, imagination, and fantastically silly scenarios that expand the realms of reality to kids around the world. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Graphic Design from the University of Waikato and Wanganui Polytech. He is also a SCBWI member.

DAVID CREIGHTON-PESTER

DUBRAVKA KOLANOVIC

Dubravka studied at Savannah College of Art and Design in the USA and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, where she got a degree in painting. She published her first book, A Special Day, in the USA at the age of eighteen. Since then, Dubravka has devoted herself to children’s book illustration. She is very proud of her longstanding collaboration with UNICEF. Dubravka has designed more then 80 cards and posters for them. Her books have featured on CBeebies Bedtime Hour. Dubravka’s work was awarded by the Oshima Museum of Children’s picture books in Japan. Her illustrations were also awarded and appeared in 3x3, a magazine of contemporary illustrations. For years, she has volunteered in projects for the protection of the environment and animals throughout the world. All her travels and time spent in such wonderful parts of the globe as the Amazon rainforest, African savannah, Borneo,Galapagos, the remote Pacific coral reef or Artic and Antarctica are a constant source of inspiration.

DUBRAVKA KOLANOVIC

ELA SMIETANKA

Ela Smietanka is a Polish illustrator. Her adventure with drawings started when she was a little girl. In order to make her dreams come true she graduated from the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakรณw, where she now lives with her husband, two sons, a cat named Zuzia, and some other cats from the neighbourhood. She is a freelancer. In her work she combines pencils, paints and Photoshop, happily discovering again and again new digital techniques. When she is preparing draft illustrations, she listens to audiobooks, and with a good sensation novel she may work until dawn. She spends her time off on a bicycle, listening to energetic music. If she were to choose a job other than an illustrator, she could be a dancer.

ELA SMIETANKA

ELENA NAPOLI

Elena is an Italian Illustrator and Character designer, who studied Entertainment Design at the “NEMO Academy of Digital Arts” in Florence. Growing up in the Italian art scene, she has drawn for as long as she can remember and she has always known that this would be her future. Starting with digital and traditional techniques, like watercolour and ecoline, she initially focused on animated films and then moved to illustrations. Afterwards, came the Florentine academic experience, which expanded her horizons towards everything related to Entertainment (from concept art for animation studios and videogames to illustration for publishing and graphic design) along with several workshops with professional artists from the world’s biggest animation studios. Her greatest passion, however, has always been children’s illustration. Her business background is currently composed of experiences in Character Design, Storyboarding and Illustration, but her versatile style and curiosity allows her to adapt and work in many areas of the artistic field. Among her interests are music, young adult fiction, children’s books, indie video games, films and TV series, as well as her dream of travelling doing what she loves and finding her own place in the world.

ELENA NAPOLI

ELISSAMBURA

Elissambura was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, where she carried out her studies as a professional Illustrator. A few years ago, she moved to Rosario City, where she lives with her little son, husband, animals and cactus collection. Since she was a child, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been captivated by images, stories, colours, animals, books, materials, the scent of ink and paper, and above all: her own imagination. Her work is based on telling stories, creating characters, developing illustrated contents, solving communication issues and providing images wherever they are necessary. She has been dedicating herself to the field of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and editorial illustration for over 15 years, using traditional techniques, digital and mix media. For Elissambura the best part of this profession is being able to draw animals, play with colours and take advantage of the magic of illustrations, accessing the places that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be reached through words alone.

ELISSAMBURA

EMANUELA MANELLO

Emanuela was born in 1986 in Rome, where she grew up, and now lives in Anguillara Sabazia, a little village on the coast of lake Bracciano. She graduated from the “International School of Comics”, where she studied artistic drawing, graphic design and illustration. She’s grateful that her family has always supported her. During the years after her studies, she has worked with a number of publishers and has participated in various competitions. This year, the Sharjah Book Authority will exhibit her illustrations of “Beauty and the Beast”. When she works on her illustrations, she lives in a magical world; music, Disney, the Victorian age and her favourite books are her inspiration! The usual method that she employs in her work is digital art with photoshop and watercolors; she likes to refine her drawings with details. In her free time, Emanuela reads books, watches movies and TV series and hangs out with her best friends… they are part of her family! She is a Harry Potter fan girl and loves the geek world!

EMANUELA MANELLO

ERICA SALCEDO

Erica Salcedo is a freelance illustrator. She lives in the peaceful town of Cuenca (Spain), where she was born in 1983. She completed a fine arts degree at the UCLM (University of Castilla la Mancha) and then she decided to continue her education, going on to do a Master’s degree in Graphic Design and Illustration at the UPV (Polytechnic University of Valencia). Since she graduated, she‘s been working as an illustrator, and participated in a bunch of cool projects with different Publisher’s houses in different countries.

ERICA SALCEDO

ERIN BROWN

Turning her passion of drawing into a career has been a dream for Erin. She first started drawing seriously in her early teens and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been all she wanted to do since. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s always had a huge interest in Chinese Brush Painting, particularly of flora and fauna. She loves the work of artists like Ralph Steadman and Quentin Blake; she finds herself drawn to inky, colourful art! She works with highly pigmented inks and watercolour paints. The ability to blend colours together and splash a page with intensely coloured paint strokes is a key part of all of her work. She has a number of softcover sketchbooks, which she uses to experiment, sketch interesting flowers, glue in scraps from magazines that have interested her, collect ideas and make notes. She uses large pads of cartridge paper to practice and play about with compositions before painting final pieces on thick hot-pressed watercolour paper. Erin works in her compact home studio, where she desperately tries to avoid spilling ink on the carpet. Having everything close by is very important to her; She works quite spontaneously so being able to reach for whatever ink, brush or paper she needs saves time and helps her creativity flow! Erin describes her style as colourful and bold. She loves working with bright paints and messy brushstrokes, which she believes adds a sense of fluidity and spontaneity to her work. She likes when not every line is drawn, when not every part is there. She thinks the feeling you get from a piece of art is more important than how accurately the subject is represented. She feels very happy when working, and hopes that is conveyed through her art.

ERIN BROWN

FABIANA ATTANASIO

Fabiana Attanasio was born in March 1985 in Rome. She has loved to draw since she was a child and started her career graduating from the “International School of Comics” with a degree in Illustration. Since then, she has worked as an illustrator for children’s books. She likes to use traditional media, loves the feeling of using brushes and pencils, but she also works with digital media. Now she lives in Anguillara, a small lake town close to Roma, with her three men: her husband, her dog and her bunny! She loves everything handmade, animals, flowers, videogames, Japan and, of course, her job!

FABIANA ATTANASIO

FABRIZIO DI BALDO

Fabrizio Di Baldo lives in Rome, Italy. He graduated in 2001 with a degree in fine art and semiotics, before earning a PhD in illustration at the Comics International School and a second PhD in graphic design at the European Design Institute. Fabrizio works as an Art Director and illustrator in Rome. He has published a number of comic stories in Italy, and for 2016 some ‘colour your own’ books with Harper Collins and ‘Turtle is a Hero’ with Cambridge University Press. His 2018 work includes Orcobello va in tv (Castoro publishing), Dinosaurs (Salariya Publishing), Mouse trap (OUP) and La gran noche (Benchmark Education).

FABRIZIO DI BALDO

GIOVANA MEDEIROS

Giovana was born in the late 1980s in Criciuma, a city in the south of Brazil. She graduated in Fashion Design in her hometown, but later on pursued her dream and studied Illustration at BCFE in Dublin, where she lived for three years. She worked for several years creating print designs for apparel, but since 2011 has been dedicating herself to becoming a full time illustrator. Although her work is mostly focused on the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s universe, it has also been applied to a series of different mediums such as books, magazines, textiles, games, apps etc. Aside from her work as an illustrator, she dedicates her free time towards creating autobiographical comics, discovering new recipes, drinking coffee and travelling

GIOVANA MEDEIROS

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Artwork MUST be at least 300DPI

HSULYINN PANG

124 x 81mm 301 x 303mm - this MUST include a 3mm bleed Artwork MUST be at least 300DPI Artwork MUST be at least 600DPI

124 x 81mm Hsulynn Pang is lucky enough to have made a living out of what most people would call a hobby from the comforts of her home - making drawings and paintings. Born in small town Malacca, Malaysia, Hsulynn grew up with 3 brothers and enjoyed much of her childhood chasing after locusts and butterflies in her backyard, digging for earthworms and collecting seashells from the beach nearby. This is quite possibly why she finds herself painting lots of nature inspired art works rather than big tall buildings.

Artwork MUST be at least 300DPI

60 x 80mm

Artwork MUST be at least 300DPI

HSULYINN PANG

124 x 81mm 301 x 303mm - this MUST include a 3mm bleed Artwork MUST be at least 300DPI Artwork MUST be at least 600DPI

Artwork MUST be at least 300DPI

IRENE MONTANO

When Irene was a child, she used to say that she wouldn’t ever become an artist because she was pretty sure it was boring as hell. Nowadays she draws everyday and can’t be happier to have been wrong! Nothing and everything can inspire her. Ever since she can remember, the warmth of daily life has always been her Muse: breakfasts, the smell of coffee in the morning, children, the rain or sushi... A personal project of Irene’s has been exposed during the show “40 Days around the World”. She loves bodybuilding and sports nutrition. If she hadn’t been an illustrator, Irene would have been a personal trainer for sure! She has a soft spot for organized places, post-its, and empty spaces in the calendar to fill in. Her boyfriend calls her “The Cadet”!

IRENE MONTANO

IVANA KUMAN

Ivana graduated from the Arts Academy in Zagreb. She works as an illustrator, film writer, animator, comic author and writer. She illustrates picture books, regular books and educational books. She also works as an illustrator for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magazines. She is the author of two comic strips published in childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magazines. She is the illustrator, visual designer and animator of several TV series on Croatian Television and the author of 30 short animated films for children and one for young adults. She has written and illustrated six picture books and three novels for young adults. She has received many awards for her work as illustrator, and also as writer and film author. She lives in Zagreb with her husband, baby girl and a diabetic cat.

IVANA KUMAN

JAMES NEWMAN GRAY

Born and raised in Sheffield, James studied illustration at Wolverhampton University after a childhood spent sketching and painting. He went on to have a long career as an in-house illustrator for several greeting card publishers, including Hallmark cards, working on branded characters and also on original illustration. Over the years, this taught him to develop many different styles and to work in many different media. Although a large part of Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC; illustrations are done digitally now, he still likes to do line-art in his sketchpad and get the paints out and make marks.

JAMES NEWMAN GRAY

JAVIERA ALVAREZ

Javiera Maclean Ă lvarez is a Chilean childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book illustrator who has a strong passion for changing the world through her art! Javiera recently joined Advocate Art and is excited to take on new work! She is able to work both traditionally and digitally, making her portfolio and capabilities quite versatile. The softness of her characters matched with vibrant colors makes Javieraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustrations perfect for children ages 0-100. Her work is quirky yet cute and incorporates both people characters and animal characters. She believes in the power of practice and also likes to use illustration as a voice to raise awareness for make a better world. Sometimes she dreams to be come a multimillionaire illustrator traveler

JAVIERA ALVAREZ

JEAN CLAUDE

Jean Claude is a self-taught illustrator living and working in Manchester, UK. While heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most at home with his drawing tablet and a cup of strong coffee, Jean also enjoys long walks with his dog Ted, preparing elaborate meals and visiting the zoo for artistic inspiration!

JEAN CLAUDE

JENNY PALMER

Jenny graduated with a first class degree in Illustration from the University of Lincoln in 2013 and began working as a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book illustrator. After a period of ill health, she also returned to Lincoln to study Design as a postgrad, graduating in 2017. She is the resident attic gremlin in a house-share in Worthing, UK, and lives semi-nocturnally to facilitate her long-distance relationship with her partner in California. She loves to bring out the emotion of the cute animal characters in her drawings, as well as creating digital art which mimics traditional processes.

JENNY PALMER

JOAQUIN CAMP

Joaquín Camp, (Buenos Aires, 1987) is an Illustrator and Graphic Designer Graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. His illustrations have featured in a number of forms, ranging from printed-paper and magazines to animations. Some of his clients were La Nación newspaper, La Marca Editora, Latinlab and Little Bee Books, among others. He was a professor at the University of Buenos Aires for some years in the field Illustration of the Roldán Chair at FADU. Currently he teaches workshops on children’s illustration in Moebius space. He is also co-founder of Coquín, a venture dedicated to the creation of self-irrigation pots and aims to bring the green space to small places.

JOAQUIN CAMP

28 JON DAVIS

Pirates, Old Elephants, Witches in Bloomers, Bear’s on Bikes, Ugly Cats, Sweet Kids, whatever you want...Jon Davis always loved drawing as a child, thinking up characters and stories - paints, pencils, felt tips, crayons, anything would do. So he decided to study Illustration at Glyndwr University, Wrexham. Now, he has illustrated more than 70 books for publishers across the globe. He works digitally, in Photoshop with a tablet and pen, and has illustrated picture books for Sterling, Harcourt and Hallmark, and series of young readers with Hardie Grant Egmont and Scholastic. He has worked with many other publishers including Faber & Faber, OUP, Little Tiger Press, Albert Whitman, Miles Kelly, Tiger Tales, Thomas Nelson and Pearson. His first self-penned Picture book, “Small Blue and the Deep Dark Night” came out recently with Harcourt and Jon is now an award winning illustrator as “The Knish War of Rivington Street”, written by Joanne Oppenheim, published by Albert Whitman won this year’s GANYC Apple Award. He is currently working on further concepts for picture books.

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JON STUART

Jon Stuart was born on 17 Oct 1968. Jon Stuart is a UK based 3D illustrator and animator. He loves all things 3d, and is influenced by a multitude of sources from Pixar, to Tintin and Wallace and Gromit. Jon studied Fine Art at University of Liverpool specialising in animation. He started out as a free-lance animator for a number of years before falling in love with all things 3D, formed Jonatronix in 2000 and has been creating artwork specialising in children’s books since then. Jon works on one-off commissions, or large series of books, whereupon he organises a team to help with production. He has been lead illustrator for Project X, a reading programme for Oxford University Press, for the last 10 years producing over 300 children’s books, all in 3D. Part of this programme the Alien adventures book series went on to win an ERA award. He has worked for many publishers including OUP, CUP, Macmillan, Harper Collins, and DK His latest series “The Woollies” is to be published in March 2018. Based in Brighton, when he is not modelling, he is often out running with his intrepid dachshund cross Bertie!

JON STUART

KATHRYN SELBERT

Kathryn Selbert is a freelance childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book illustrator currently living in New Haven, Connecticut, with her French bulldog, Margot. She earned her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is inspired by the people she meets in her everyday life, our colorful world, flora and fauna and having fun.

KATHRYN SELBERT

31 KATIE ABEY

Katie Abey is an illustrator human who lives in a teeny hobbit-like house in Derbyshire with a cat, a hedgehog and a husband. Her work provides illustrative doses of happiness and motivation along with a little dash of sarcasm. She is a big lover of animals and her work often features creatures looking slightly nonchalant, perturbed or even a bit deranged. She likes using a lot of colour in her work and this love of colour is reflected in her brightly coloured studio space and her hair, which frequently changes colour to match its surroundings. When Katie is not drawing awkward cats and llamas she enjoys yoga, reading and referring to herself in the third person.

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KATIE SAUNDERS

The best part of Katie’s job is creating new characters from the top of her head. That’s where the magic starts when writing and illustrating, she thinks, and of lots of silly humour, making children laugh. She loves to work with bold on trend colours, patterns and textures. She works digitally which she self-taught after leaving university in 2001. She likes to think even though she work digitally its as close to hand drawn as possible using different bush tools just like pen and paper. She likes things to look cute, but really quirky. She lives in Kent with her two children and partner Graham and our three crazy cats. Her family is a great influence in her work, and her children are the stars of her last two children’s books. Drawing and writing what is close to home is what she does best. In her spare time she loves to go running, drinking lots of tea and far too much coffee, and having a good old gossip with her crazy Mum friends.

KATIE SAUNDERS

LIZZIE WALKLEY

Lizzie graduated with a degree in illustration in 2004 and has been lucky enough to have had a career as an illustrator ever since. Working in-house for greeting card companies for 10 years has taught her to be adaptable in style as well as the importance of sticking to briefs and working to tight deadlines. Since going freelance and joining Advocate in 2014, she has enjoyed working on a wide variety of projects, from childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book and greetings card illustration to toy designing. Lizzie is hard working, reliable and endeavours to communicate at all stages of the brief. She works from her home studio in Gloucestershire and has a nice man and a little girl.

LIZZIE WALKLEY

LOUISE FORSHAW

Louise was born in 1987 - most likely with a pencil in her hand! Her passion for drawing started at around 4 years old. Nothing was safe from her coloured pencils! She spent most of her childhood watching cartoons and drawing comics to give to her favourite teachers. She went on to graduate from Newcastle College in 2008 with a BA Hons in Illustration and Animation, in which she achieved a 2:1. After leaving College, she volunteered at a local gallery where she was able to showcase her work and work alongside other artists such as Simon Donald, co-founder of the British comic magazine, Viz. Louise currently lives with her fiancĂŠ in a small town in the North East just outside Newcastle upon Tyne. She works from home in a small studio (and sometimes from the sofa) being supervised by three noisy and very naughty Jack Russell Terriers.

LOUISE FORSHAW

LYNN HORRABIN

Lynn Horrabin, a Yorkshire lass, was born in Bradford, west Yorkshire into an art-loving family. Painting and drawing was all she was really interested in as a child. After studying art then graphic design at Bradford Art College she joined a greeting card company where she worked her way up to the position of senior designer. She decided to go freelance in 2006 and has fortunately been kept pretty busy ever since. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s worked for a variety of different clients in the UK and abroad, from small independents to big high street brands and supermarkets. Her artwork has been used on greeting cards, ceramics and art prints, recently she has very much enjoyed illustrating childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books. Lynn loves nature and being in her garden and often these themes carry over into her work. She tries to always develop her art styles to keep her work looking new and exciting.

LYNN HORRABIN

MACKENZIE HALEY

MacKenzie Haley is an illustrator, runner and cat whisperer who currently resides in Louisville, KY. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completed two full marathons (slowly), fostered about twelve cats (not at the same time), and has her BFA in illustration from University of Dayton. She has been drawing her whole life, and flunked a math test in the third grade because she turned the page over and used the entire time to draw characters and faces out of numbers. She eventually learned long division and her passion for art never faded. She loves anything slightly strange or creepy and cute, and uses bold colours, patterns and textures. She has currently reached the maximum amount of cat shirts a grown woman is allowed to have and is banned from buying any more (but can accept them as gifts).

MACKENZIE HALEY

37 MALU LENZI

Born in the countryside of Brazil in 1982, Malu used to spend every vacation in Rio de Janeiro, visiting more museums and paper shops than beaches. Which probably explains her love for travelling and Art. After some travels, she‘s currently living in Berlin. “Although I could move right now to the seaside.” She has worked on many different creative jobs, but in her 30s she decided to be THE creative and become a self-taught Illustrator. If she didn‘t, she‘d be a bunny and have a paper shop. (no idea how...) Malu is sort of Cute Maker. She wants to make people feel happy, playful and loved in a cute world. She thinks her inspiration comes from her inner child, the 50’s and Scandinavian Design. Alice in Wonderland is her curious way of thinking. Her artwork is a mix of hand drawing lines, cute characters and digital colours – “3 happy acorns” is her favourite joyful combination. When she‘s not cuddling her old cat or drawing while listening jazz, Malu likes to walk around watching people.

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MARCELA CALDERON

Marcela is a childrens book illustrator and has been freelancing for many years. She grew up in San Nicolás, Argentina, surrounded by streams, trees, nature and pets that were her inspiration. She’s always drawn. For years, she was devoted to music, playing the flute and studying it until her passion for illustration grew. Today, music is part of each drawing, accompanying her in the creative process. She likes the smell of graphite, the scent of wood pencils, the sound of chalk soaring through the paper, the texture of the acrylic, the feel of the eraser, the mixture of colors being born in the palette and the brightness of a new white leaf, although she uses her graphic tablet too much to paint. Basically, she loves to draw. When she’s not drawing, she enjoys going out on her mountain bike through the fields nearby, where she feels free and happy.

MARCELA CALDERON

MARTINA PELUSO

Martina Peluso was born in Naples (Italy). She grew up in between Tuscany and Naples, where she studied the art of Printing at the Institute of Art, and she frequented courses in illustration at Sarmede and Pavia. Later, she moved to Edinburgh, where she now lives. She has worked in all areas of illustration including advertising, packaging, editorial and design. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the world and she has illustrated several childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books.

MARTINA PELUSO

MIKE BYRNE

Mike Byrne grew up on the Wirral near Liverpool before moving to Wales to study Illustration at Glyndŵr University. He began his career as a designer for a greetings card company and then became a studio manager for a licensed stationery designer before leaving to fulfil his dream of illustrating children’s books. Mike now lives in the countryside with his wife, cat and his two young sons where he spends his days doodling and illustrating children’s books fuelled only by tea and biscuits.

MIKE BYRNE

MONA MESLIER

Mona is a French, full-time freelance artist, illustrator and designer living in Nantes, France, with her man and their cat, Michelle. She was born and raised in an artistic environment, with a painter and a musician for parents, and it must have given her a hint as to her career path! However, the real trigger for her was animation, which has amazed her since she was a kid. It is now a real passion and a main inspiration for her work. Entirely self-taught, Mona refines her skills through a lot of practice and observation. She also finds inspiration in many of her favorite artists such as Tove Jansson, Glen and Claire Keane, Hayao Miyazaki, Paul Grimault, Claude Ponti and Mary Blair. She enjoys poetic, dreamlike scenarios and creating vivid characters. Her ultimate goal is to bring life to stories through her art.

MONA MESLIER

MORENA FORZA

Morena Forza was born in 1984. She lives in Milan with her two cats and a hound dog but she secretly dreams about moving to the countryside. She really loves colours but all of her pets are in greyscale. She works as an illustrator specializing in the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s market, with her work appearing in trade, picture books and educational books, magazines, greeting cards, apps and digital media. Morena worked as a pixel artist between 2003 and 2008, so she learned to love the tiniest details in her drawings. She left in 2009 to pursue illustrating full time and she hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stopped drawing since!

MORENA FORZA

NANCY LESCHNIKOFF

Nancy is a designer and illustrator, mother of two young children and an all round juggler! She likes making things look nice both on paper and screen. That’s the way she has been since knee-high to a grasshopper. Her father was a Commercial Illustrator and she has pretty much followed in his footsteps. She has over 14 years experience in the Children’s publishing industry, living and breathing illustration and typography (while drinking lots of tea). Her career has given her considerable insight into the fast moving art market and trends, allowing a great deal of expertise at designing and illustrating all kinds of things, not just books. Never one for a quiet life, she juggles her own poster illustration business in her spare time whilst looking after her family; to keep her on her toes creatively while her children keep her on her toes in all other departments. And she likes to think they encourage her dry sense of humour, which shows in her work! To be able to doodle for a living is a wonderful thing, and she feels very lucky; she can’t imagine doing anything else, as this is her life, and she wouldn’t change it for the world.

NANCY LESCHNIKOFF

NATALIA MOORE

In a quiet wood in Devon, England, lives Natalia Moore. She is passionate about her work, and is inspired by family and animals. Natalia loves to draw and illustrating is her perfect job. When not doodling, Natalia can be found going on her very own adventures, and exploring the world, but not without her sketchbook.

NATALIA MOORE

NICOLA ANDERSON

Nicola is an illustrator, designer and doodler and has been since she could hold a crayon in her hand, but professionally since 2001. After many years working in the digital industry designing websites, animations, print resources and basically mastering the tools of the trade, she now crafts imaginary worlds from her home studio in Manchester UK whilst her two dogs fight for her lap.

NICOLA ANDERSON

NIKKI DYSON

Nikki grew up in a small village called Shrivenham in Oxfordshire and lives in South Northamptonshire. She studied for her Illustration degree in Swindon and after graduating in 2006 has illustrated books for children since. Nikki spent a lot of her childhood drawing, reading and making lots of mud pies in the garden. To this day she still does the same but gets paid for it too which is lovely and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be pleased to hear the mud pie business is still going strong! Nikki loves creating characters for stories and is hugely inspired by animation and concept artists. Work to date includes: 1000 Things series for Usborne, Two Little Golden Books, Zippo the Super Hippo from Macmillan, Dinosaurs Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Have Bedtimes for Walker Books and a series of Nature Sticker books from Nosy Crow in partnership with The National Trust.

NIKKI DYSON

PATRICIA YUSTE

Patricia is originally from Málaga in Spain, but nowadays she lives and works in Berlin. It is a wonderfully creative environment. Her passion is drawing. She’s happy when she holds a pencil or brush in her hand; in fact, she’s drawn since she can remember - that was the reason Patricia studied fine art. At the start of her career, she worked in fashion and, after several years as a graphic and fashion designer, she decided to work in what she loves: illustration!! She loves watercolors and ink but most of her work is digital; Patricia recognizes that this is faster and cleaner. She considers herself a versatile illustrator, though she feels special interest in children’s illustrations since she became a mummy. She places high demands on herself at work, she is flexible and she knows how to adapt to the requirements of each project.

PATRICIA YUSTE

PATRICK S. BROOKS

Patrick S. Brooks is an illustrator and writer based in Cornwall, UK. He graduated in Fine Art and primarily works digitally using Photoshop. He tries to create an ethereal and dreamlike feel to many of his scenes and uses different techniques. He uses scanned image textures of paint, pastel, canvas and other media, and builds up illustrations with layers. By assigning textures to custom brushes, he tries to achieve a traditional pastel feel to his work. Through using layer blending modes such as screen, overlay and multiply, he alters transparency to experiment with different texture and digital effects. As a writer, he also enjoys including narratives into his scenes and creating new characters. Currently he is in the process of developing two original picture book concepts. To date he has worked with publishers in South Korea, America, Australia and UK.

PATRICK S. BROOKS

49 POPE TWINS

Liz and Kate have created art together since leaving Staffordshire University in 2001. They both gained a first class degree in Surface Pattern Design, a very broad course, which allowed each student to develop their own strengths. During this time Kate became passionate about colour, often experimenting with bold shapes, combining pattern, collage and mixed media. Liz edged more towards illustration, focusing more on her detail and line, soon finding a real style of her own. They both still very much work with the same set of skills, mostly working together on commercial briefs, Liz sketching and then passing along to Kate to colour up. However when it comes to a one off fine artwork, we go our separate ways a little and let our individuality show through! Their adventure as artists began back at their Mum and Dads in the bedroom they grew up in! Turning their beds into desks! They now work at Liz’s house in a small studio, that’s full to the brim with paints, collage papers, children’s books, sketch books, it’s certainly the messiest room in the house!!

49 POPE TWINS

ROBERT DUNN

Robert Dunn is a Scottish illustrator specialising in editorial, children’s and picture book illustration. He works mixing traditional media with digital elements in his cluttered but cosy home studio in the wilds of South Lanarkshire. The lovely people at Advocate Art keep him busy illustrating lots of books and magazines. Some of these books were published by: Pearson, Sourcebooks, Hometown World, QED, TTA Press, Scholastic, Boyds Mills Press, Albert Whitman, Miles Kelly and Thomas Nelson. His first picture book, ‘Spacewalkies’, was published by QED in 2015. ‘There’s only one- ‘Scruffle’ - which followed in 2016.

ROBERT DUNN

ROTEM TEPLOW

Rotem Teplow, 26, was born in Kfar Sava, Israel.Since childhood she had a strong interest in art and illustration, and she always knew she would become an illustrator. She loves her work, and really enjoys illustrating life and color into text. Rotem graduated from Shenkar College of Design in 2016. She currently works with newspapers, magazines and publishers worldwide

ROTEM TEPLOW

SALLY GARLAND

Sally was brought up in a small town in the Highlands of Scotland called Alness and studied Illustration at Edinburgh College Of Art, before moving to Glasgow where she now currently lives and works with her partner and young son.Since she was young she has always loved drawing and had a passion for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s literature and illustration. Her current influences include vintage picture book illustration from the 50s and 60s. She has had many years experience working as a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Illustrator and happily works both digitally and traditionally. Recently she has been enjoying experimenting with simple block printing techniques and watercolour and writing her own stories.

SALLY GARLAND

SARA UGOLOTTI

Sara Uglotti was born in 1988 near Reggio Emilia, Italy and since she was a child she has always loved drawing. In 2012 Sara obtained a bachelor degree in Architecture at the University of Parma. In 2015 she took a degree in Illustration at the International School of Comics in Reggio Emilia with excellent results. From the end of the school she had been working on herself trying to find out her personal illustration style and working and learning in digital painting as autodidact. She made some illustrations for magazines and children’s books and currently works as an illustrator in a collective of artists named “Le Sirene Research”. Sara won many international illustrations competions and her illustrations have been selected for exhibitions in Italy, Holland, Germany, Belgium, UK and China. She currently live and work in Parma with her boyfriend and their french bulldog Murphy.

SARA UGOLOTTI

SMILJANA COH

Born in Croatia in April 1981. she started illustrating while she was studying film animation at the Department for Animated Film and New Media of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She grew up in Varazdin and she still lives here with her husband and their three children. She LOVES children’s books. Her favourite picture book from the time she was a child is “The Mitten”. Her favourite novel is “Sophie’s World”. She likes beautiful board games and vintage children’s books. Her client list includes “The Art File” (greeting cards), “Bloomsbury”, “Running Press”, “Carlton”, “Blue Apple Books”, “Tiger Tales”, “Miles Kelly”, “Random House”, “Egmont”, “Hinkler”, “Faber” and “SkyPony Press”. She has been working on illustrations for a trilogy written by Julian Lennon with Bart Davis. “Touch the Earth” was a New York Times bestseller and it got excellent reviews. The second book “Heal the Earth” got released in April 2018. She is also teaching primary school children animation. She likes music, boxes and dark chocolate.

SMILJANA COH

SONJA WIMMER

Painting and storytelling are two big passions of Sonja. After studying and working for some years as a graphic designer in her hometown of Munich and in Brussels, she decided to pack her bag and move to Barcelona in Spain to study Illustration at the “Llotja” Arts and Crafts School. Since then she hasn’t stopped painting. Over the last years several of her books have won awards in the United States. Actually Sonja lives with her family and all kinds of wonderful tales near the German Alps between two rivers and loads of brushes, working as a freelance illustrator for publishing houses and other clients around the world. She loves drawing at the seaside, in the mountains or in a Café, catching ideas in the song of the water, the glance of a passerby or at the bottom of a cup of coffee.Illustrating, for her, means the opportunity to bring a little light to people, to move them, and to make them laugh, reflect and dream.

SONJA WIMMER

SOPHIA TOULIATOU

Greek-born and Athens based artist, Sophia Touliatou, has studied Graphic Design,but works as an illustrator doing mostly children books -many of which have gained merits and awards. Sophia has recently worked on a project for Usborne Publishing of which the title won a ‘Schools Library Association Information Book Award’You can find her work in Greece, Uk, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium, United States, Australia, Japan and South Korea. She’s always happier when a dog or cat is around and strongly believes that life begins after coffee :)

SOPHIA TOULIATOU

STEPHEN STONE

Originally from the North East of England, Stevee now lives in Derbyshire UK with his wife Claire and Vincent van Mog. After completing his education, he began his career working within the fashion industry as a clothing/print designer after which he spent 12 years as a university lecturer in Fashion Design & Visual Communication. He now devotes his time as a freelance artist, specialising in narrative illustration for commercial and contemporary markets. With over 25 books published and a growing client list, his journey has been a very exciting and rewarding one. ‘’As a child I remember pouring over my brothers Asterix books and be lost in their magic. That first passion for storytelling and illustration has since flowered into my own work which celebrates personality, humour and characterisation. These are the key elements to my style along with dynamic mix of traditional and digital techniques’’

STEPHEN STONE

STEVE JAMES

Steve is originally from a small village in North Yorkshire, but he now lives on the outskirts of the vibrant city of Leeds with his partner and their daughter. There are lots of artsy folk in Steve’s family, so it was only natural that he should have a love for drawing from a young age, taking his early influence from the Beano and Dandy comics to Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons. Altogether, Steve has over ten years of experience working in the creative industry, and has strong Photoshop and Illustrator skills. Recently he has had the opportunity to work on some dream projects, including providing illustration for a fun chapter series of children’s books and illustrating a range of Star Wars greeting cards. His ultimate ambition as an artist is to work on a cartoon series, and perhaps design a range of action figures. Steve likes to keep up to date with the latest cartoons and children’s books, and he adapts his style by introducing elements from new sources of inspiration. When Steven isn’t illustrating, he likes to see live music, watch films, play video games, take walks in the countryside and play guitar.

STEVE JAMES

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Susana was born in sunny Barcelona, Spain, in 1981. When she was a child, she loved reading fairy tales and drawing and writing her own stories, so it was only natural that in 2012 she put her career as engineer aside and focused on her true vocation: illustration! In 2015 Susana graduated from Olot School of Art with a degree in Illustration. She then joined a Comic course in Barcelona Joso School and, in 2016, graduated from Eina University School with a Postgraduate qualification in Children’s Books Illustration. Her artwork is kind and colourful, probably because she has a quiet character. Nowadays, she lives in a village near Barcelona with her husband and beautiful son, where she works as an illustrator for clients around the world. When Susana‘s not drawing, she spends her free time with family, walking around the forest, travelling and enjoying life... “Honestly I can’t imagine myself doing anything else.”

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SUSANA GURREA

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124 x 81mm Artwork MUST be at least 300DPI

TERESA BELLON

Teresa Bellon was born in Albacete, Spain in 1987. She spent a few years wandering around life, she was studying different things and doing drawings just for Mom and Dad; until she finally accepted her fate and did an Illustration Course in Madrid. As a result, she began working for national and international clients and she has had several exhibitions. Her inspirations are mainly Portuguese and Nordic illustrators of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books. Her drawings have a touch of naivety, reduced ranges of colours and simple compositions. Finally, Teresa doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay at home waiting for inspiration, she sets out to find it. So she travels, buys illustrated books and walk a lot around Madrid.

TERESA BELLON

VALENTINA TORO

Valentina was born in Medellín, Colombia. Her father is a great illustrator and perhaps the best teacher she has ever had. She grew up watching him draw beautiful animals and characters, and that’s the reason she decided to become an illustrator too. Valentina studied graphic design and then got a Creative Writing degree because she wanted to create stories both written and illustrated. She started publishing her own books in 2013 and since then she hasn’t stopped making good stories for children. Valentina loves picture books, especially the classics. She finds them very inspiring and profound. She has illustrated a lot of different picture books, and children’s literature has given her the opportunity to collaborate with very talented writers from other countries.

VALENTINA TORO

VERONICA MONTOYA

Verónica was born in Alicante, a little city in the South East of Spain. This is also where she currently lives and works as freelance illustrator. She has loved drawing and painting for as long as she can remember. Her first painting was made together with her father — he is an amateur painter and taught her the first steps into drawing when she was a child. Verónica thinks her main influences come from childhood inspirations. She grew up watching every kind of cartoon and reading illustrated children‘s books, particularly fairytale ones, which inspired her to draw. She studied Fine Arts in Valencia and then two masters on Digital Creation and 2d Traditional Animation. Since then she has been developing her art practice. Verónica has experimented with various types of art such as painting, design, illustration and animation. Her range of projects include children‘s book illustration, Illustration character design and background and props design for video games. She usually starts to draw by pencil and adds colour digitally. She loves to try out new brushes and textures in every illustration. One of her favourite projects has been producing illustrations for a Children‘s book, whose benefit were to built a school in a small village in Madagascar. If she‘s not illustrating, you can find her walking by the sea

VERONICA MONTOYA

XIMENA JERIA

Being very shy as a child, illustration has always been Ximenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s translator, allowing me to express her emotions through graphic form. In her designs, she uses both manual and digital techniques and constantly does research on the use of different media and materials to achieve new forms of expression. Currently, she is venturing into collage and charcoal pencil work. She studied and graduated in Graphic Design at the University of Valparaiso, Chile. She has worked for publishers and design agencies both in Chile and abroad. She lives in the city of Vina del Mar, Chile, with her beautiful children and husband.

XIMENA JERIA

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DON STUART

Don was born in 1957 and grew up in Pennsylvania. As a kid he was constantly drawing. He was once sent to the principle’s office by his teacher to show him “what he was doing during class time.” (He thought it looked pretty good). Don attended the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio, which lead to jobs at Gibson Greeting Cards in Cincinnati, and American Greetings in Cleveland, where he worked for over thirty years. American Greetings gave him the opportunity to explore many different styles and techniques, from loose and spontaneous to meticulous laser die cut and finishing art. Don still loves combining creativity with craftsmanship in his work. He lives in Cleveland, on the shore of Lake Erie, with his wife Anne, a dog and a cat. When he’s not illustrating he enjoys making ceramic sculptures or riding his motorcycles.

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124 x 81mm Artwork MUST be at least 300DPI

ELIF BALTA PARKS

Elif Balta Parks is a cheese lover, hamster admirer, chocolate connoisseur and a prolific Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book Illustrator. She grew up in Istanbul, Turkey next to the bright, blue Bosporus and even as a child knew she wanted to be an artist. She then completed a degree in Business and went on to study at Central St. Martins School of Fine Art for a short time before embarking on her first books. Elif strives for bright, cheerful illustrations that capture the joy of childhood. Since starting her professional career she has illustrated over 60 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Books and is ready for so many, many more. As long as there is a warm chair, some tea and a cat around, she will be doing what she loves best.. Illustrating. Elif lives in Surrey with her husband, their cat and Dean Martin (who is always singing from the stereo while she works).

HANA AUGUSTINE

I am a 27 year old self taught artist from Indonesia. Since my early childhood I have always had pen and papers with me - to observe and draw. Drawing has become a medium that speaks to my heart. I grew up with lots of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books and fairy tales. I was captivated by their worlds and characters and that helped me to develop my artistic sense. When I saw Glen Keaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ariel, I was blown away with the magic of drawing to life and ever since then my dream has been to become an artist in the animation industry. So my artistic scope ranges from concept art to visual development to character exploration to illustrations that tell stories. One of my turning points as an artist is was meeting my boyfriend, he is a great story artists and that helps me to remind myself that in every drawing that I make I have something to tell. Me and my partnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope is for the people around the world would be able to relate to one another through the stories of pain, loss, faith, hope and love that we all share as humans.

IZABELLA MARKIEWICZ

Born in Poland, Izabella now lives and works in SaarbrĂźcken, Germany. After studying interior design and working for several years as an interior decorator, she has now turned her passion for drawing into a career in illustration. In 2010, Izabella founded Maedchenwahn Illustration, a design studio for pattern design and illustration. She creates modern, sophisticated patterns for textiles, stationery and home decor, as well as bold, quirky and cheerful illustrations for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books, greeting cards and calendars. Her style includes pure and romantic elements with minimalistic shapes in modern or vintagecolours. Her aim is to put a smile on your face with her illustrations and artwork.

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LUCY MACUK

Lucy Makuc is an Argentinian freelance illustrator with more than a decade of experience working in picture books and comics. Although she prefers digital media for her illustrations, she loves to make art with traditional techniques and play with colors and textures. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a never-ending learner, and someday sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll learn to play the viola, knit an Aran sweater, write a novel and to talk with her cats and dog.

MADISON ANGUS

Madison is an artist and designer living in Seattle, Washington. Creating since she was a child, she uses both traditional and digital tools to bring her art to life. Her illustrations communicate emotion using texture and bright color palettes. Madison loves to create original characters and always has a sketchbook in hand to write down her latest ideas. She loves to volunteer and create art for her local community by participating in public art installations.

MAJA ANDERSEN

Maja was born and raised in the U.S. to Danish parents, so of course grew up speaking danglish! When she was young, she was given the Danish version of “Pippi Longstocking” illustrated by Ingrid Van Nyman. Nyman’s illustrations have been an inspiration to her ever since. After graduating with a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio, she took a job with Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Missouri. While at Hallmark, she illustrated a variety of greeting cards which included 3D pop-out cards. Her illustrations have also appeared on gift books, packaging and apparel. She recently left Hallmark to pursue freelance illustration. Her style of artwork is whimsical in subject matter and textured graphic in style. She also enjoys drawing in line-work with limited color. Her inspiration comes from international folk art. Her hobbies include drawing on cocktail napkins, flamenco dance lessons and cats!

MARTINA MOTZO

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After graduating in Theatre Direction, and obtaining a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Scriptwriting, Martina discovered the best way to tell her stories was to draw them - especially when her stories involved space travel, invisible elephants and gigantic flying toasters. An enthusiastic fan of imaginary encyclopedias, Odradeks, and Gonzo from the Muppet Show, Martina is still in love with her first pen (the one she stole from her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desk when she was five) a magnificent India Ink Rotring Pen 0.1. She lives in Rome, where she works as an illustrator and graphic designer.

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PEDRO RIQUELME

Pedro Riquelme was born in 1995 in Málaga, Spain, where he has been living all his life with his family. He has a pet black cat named Toulouse. This fact is more important that you think. Toulouse-Lautrec is the name of one of the best-known artists of the 20th century, which shows that he has been always interested in art..! This led to him studying Fine Arts in Málaga. While he enjoys looking at old paintings - he really loves the cinema. If he wasn’t an illustrator, he would like to work as a film director, creating his own stories and showing them on the big screen. Nevertheless, he thinks his work is similar to that. For Pedro, to illustrate is to tell little or big stories only with images. Don’t you agree?

RODRIGO WOLF

Rodrigo Wolff is 35 years old and lives in Curitiba, Brazil. He’s been drawing since he was a kid, which has led him to all the professional choices he’s made in his life. From a design degree to the cartoonish style of drawing that he loves so much. Today he works as an illustrator, concept artist and character designer for producers and publishers, creating for games, animation and books. He is passionate about cinema, pop culture and geeky stuff. He loves to create and to imagine stories and to fantasise new worlds. He has fun creating characters and figuring out where they come from. Who are they? What are their emotions and feelings? That’s what he really likes to do. Art is and always will be his life!

18 SEAN SIMS

Sean was brought up in Middlesbrough in the north-east of England and studied illustration at Cleveland College of Art & Design, before moving to sunny Brighton where he now lives & works with his partner and two children Stanley & Mabel. He has allways had a passion for mid-twentieth century design & illustration and has had a big inuence on his style of illustration. Often described as having a style that â&#x20AC;&#x153;makes you smileâ&#x20AC;? his big, bold & bright retro style illustrations have been used across the globe on everything from childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books,magazines,greetings cards,giftwrap, packaging, toys and fabrics, many for major international clients. As well as being an illustrator, Sean has a passion collecting mid-twentieth century design and is never happier than getting up bright and early on a Sunday morning trawling the local car-boot sales for hidden treasure to add to his huge collection.

TAMARA D’AMATO

Sometimes from Rome, sometimes from Bari or Naples, maybe soon from Florence. Tamara has studied for several years in the best cities of Italy, but her first real school started in the wooded slopes of the Swiss mountains where she fell in love with watercolor and observing nature. Although she’s studied for years, she thinks the best school ever is a healthy quantity of obsession for what she aspires to be. She’s a multistyle artist and loves experimentation. Her favorite medias are soft pastels, pan pastels and watercolor. In her free time she loves to look for books at flea markets, write poetry and walk.

TAYLOR BARRON

Taylor was born in Seattle, WA in 1995 and has been there since - though she dreams of travelling and living in other countries! She currently has a puppy named Olive and she lives with her in the city. She is a character designer, visual development artist, and illustrator. She graduated with a BFA in 2017 from DigiPen institute of technology. Since then, she’s been able to focus her art more to what she enjoys and what she’s passionate about. She loves to colour and tries to incorporate it into everything, from her art to her clothes, to the furniture in her apartment! She would describe her art as fun and having lots of character. She always knew she would have to do something creative as a career -she’d probably go crazy doing anything else! She can’t imagine not making art everyday! As a child she was always drawing or painting. Her initial inspiration to be an artist was cartoons. She’d wake up early every saturday to watch cartoons and dream of one day making one herself! Finishing her senior thesis film was one of the best experiences of her life. Working in a team and seeing the final result came with the most amazing satisfaction.

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