HELLO!
I'm an author and illustrator specialising in mapping, children's books, drawing and lettering.
I'm an author and illustrator specialising in mapping, children's books, drawing and lettering.
I'm the author of 'Hand Drawn Maps - A Guide for Creatives' (Thames and Hudson) and my maps have also appeared in books, magazines and films. They've helped wanderers, armchair explorers, festival goers and nature lovers, folded small into brochures or shouting loudly on signage. I was made an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Cumbria in 2022.
I've contributed to over 30 books, won several awards and exhibited around the world. My book illustrations are mainly hand produced using watercolour, collage and graphite and have been used in picture books, anthologies and chapter books.
I also love drawing and lettering. Sometimes everything just comes together and my illustrations, drawings and lettering have also been commissioned for business branding, ceramic designs and as props for TV and film.
I currently work in a sunny studio in Brighton by the sea in the UK.
I currently work in a sunny studio in Brighton by the sea in the UK.
Occasionally I make work as a fine artist and information about my maps, paintings and drawings (and current exhibitions) can be found on my fine art website. I am represented by Enter Gallery and Art Republic.
Uncharacteristic extrovert moments have included learning to blacksmith; a brief employment as a forger (legitimately!); employment as a 'hand double' for a BBC costume drama (although I never actually made it to the screen); performing in a critically acclaimed theatre show based in London's West End; drinking reindeer blo0d with Sami herders; driving a dog sled above the Arctic circle and sailing as crew 1300 miles across the North Atlantic tracking whales.
My wet weather sailing gear (pointing at the hurricane)....
I have worked with the following:
The NHS/Macmillan, Marine and Lawn Hotels, Emma Bridgewater, The Atholl Estate, The Environment Agency, Visit Chester, Natural England, The De La Warr Pavilion, The Telegraph, Penguin, Octopus, Bloomsbury, the National Trust, Ridley Scott (for Turkish Airlines), Lionsgate ('The Spy who Dumped me'), HBO/BBC ('His Dark Materials'), Searchlight Pictures ('Chevalier'), MMoser Associates for Unity Technologies, BBC ('Mapp and Lucia' & 'Howard's End'), Mead Art Gallery, The Wing, Towner Art Gallery, Warner Brothers/Scholastic ('The Marauders Map Guide to Hogwarts'), Mid Sussex District Council, Thames & Hudson, Chronicle Books, The Great Escape Festival, Barefoot Books, Nosy Crow, WMB Eerdmans, Wisdom Tales, Little Barn Press, The Literary Map Company, Stil & Stiele, ONCA Gallery...
The NHS/Macmillan, Marine and Lawn Hotels, Emma Bridgewater, The Atholl Estate, The Environment Agency, Visit Chester, Natural England, The De La Warr Pavilion, The Telegraph, Penguin, Octopus, Bloomsbury, the National Trust, Ridley Scott (for Turkish Airlines), Lionsgate ('The Spy who Dumped me'), HBO/BBC ('His Dark Materials'), Searchlight Pictures ('Chevalier'), MMoser Associates for Unity Technologies, BBC ('Mapp and Lucia' & 'Howard's End'), Mead Art Gallery, The Wing, Towner Art Gallery, Warner Brothers/Scholastic ('The Marauders Map Guide to Hogwarts'), Mid Sussex District Council, Thames & Hudson, Chronicle Books, The Great Escape Festival, Barefoot Books, Nosy Crow, WMB Eerdmans, Wisdom Tales, Little Barn Press, The Literary Map Company, Stil & Stiele, ONCA Gallery...
Selected Books:
WONDER: A SONG OF THE SEASONS by Julia Key
ZIGGY'S POTATO by Sharon Sorokin
FOR EVERY LITTLE THING by June Cotner and Nancy Tupper Ling
SECRET BRITAIN by Sinclair McKay
THE ALMANAC 2021 by Lia Leendertz
A YEAR FULL OF FLOWERS by Sarah Raven
ARCHIPELAGO: AN ATLAS OF IMAGINED ISLANDS by Dr Huw Lewis-Jones
THE STAR DREAMER by Susan Hill
HARRY POTTER: THE MARAUDERS' MAP GUIDE TO HOGWARTS by Erinn Pascale
HAND DRAWN MAPS - A GUIDE FOR CREATIVES by Helen Cann
ZIGGY'S POTATO by Sharon Sorokin
FOR EVERY LITTLE THING by June Cotner and Nancy Tupper Ling
SECRET BRITAIN by Sinclair McKay
THE ALMANAC 2021 by Lia Leendertz
A YEAR FULL OF FLOWERS by Sarah Raven
ARCHIPELAGO: AN ATLAS OF IMAGINED ISLANDS by Dr Huw Lewis-Jones
THE STAR DREAMER by Susan Hill
HARRY POTTER: THE MARAUDERS' MAP GUIDE TO HOGWARTS by Erinn Pascale
HAND DRAWN MAPS - A GUIDE FOR CREATIVES by Helen Cann
MANGER by Lee Bennett Hopkins
CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
FEATHERS FOR PEACOCK by Jacqueline Jules
THE INUK QUARTET (The Shipwreck, The Raiders & The Snowstorm) by Jorn Riel
LITTLE LEAP FORWARD by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow
FIRESIDE STORIES by Caitlin Matthewes
Selected illustration awards:
2022 Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Cumbria. Science and Environment Department.
2021 'For Every Little Thing' selected for exhibition at the Society of Illustrators' Original Art Exhibition, National Museum of American Illustration, New York
2021 Gold Selection, Junior Library Guild, 'For Every Little Thing', (Nancy Tupper Ling/June Cotner, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
2016 Award winner (Children's picture books; hardcover fiction) Best Book Awards. 'Feathers for Peacock' (Jacqueline Jules, Wisdom Tales)
2014 Inclusion in the Diverse Voices List - the 50 best culturally diverse children's books in the UK since 1950 - collated by the National Centre for Children's Books - Seven Stories, in conjunction with publisher Frances Lincoln and in association with The Guardian. 'Little Leap Forward' (Guo Yue and Claire Farrow, Barefoot Books)
2012 Fall Selection, Junior Library Guild, 'The Raiders' (Jorn Riel, Barefoot Books)
2010 Gold Medal, Nautilus Book Awards, 'Little Leap Forward', (Guo Yue and Claire Farrow, Barefoot Books)
2009 Fall Selection, Junior Library Guild, 'Little Leap Forward', (Guo Yue and Claire Farrow, Barefoot Books)
CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
FEATHERS FOR PEACOCK by Jacqueline Jules
THE INUK QUARTET (The Shipwreck, The Raiders & The Snowstorm) by Jorn Riel
LITTLE LEAP FORWARD by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow
FIRESIDE STORIES by Caitlin Matthewes
Selected illustration awards:
2022 Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Cumbria. Science and Environment Department.
2021 'For Every Little Thing' selected for exhibition at the Society of Illustrators' Original Art Exhibition, National Museum of American Illustration, New York
2021 Gold Selection, Junior Library Guild, 'For Every Little Thing', (Nancy Tupper Ling/June Cotner, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
2016 Award winner (Children's picture books; hardcover fiction) Best Book Awards. 'Feathers for Peacock' (Jacqueline Jules, Wisdom Tales)
2014 Inclusion in the Diverse Voices List - the 50 best culturally diverse children's books in the UK since 1950 - collated by the National Centre for Children's Books - Seven Stories, in conjunction with publisher Frances Lincoln and in association with The Guardian. 'Little Leap Forward' (Guo Yue and Claire Farrow, Barefoot Books)
2012 Fall Selection, Junior Library Guild, 'The Raiders' (Jorn Riel, Barefoot Books)
2010 Gold Medal, Nautilus Book Awards, 'Little Leap Forward', (Guo Yue and Claire Farrow, Barefoot Books)
2009 Fall Selection, Junior Library Guild, 'Little Leap Forward', (Guo Yue and Claire Farrow, Barefoot Books)
Membership:
The PLACE Collective.
Association of Illustrators.
The PLACE Collective.
Association of Illustrators.
