from Mamie, HarperCollins Children's Books, Nov 2018 |
Since reconnecting with my long-lost illustration skills in 2014, I've been busy learning new techniques, and currently work in watercolour, pencil, ink, monoprinting and digital.
In 2014, I began the 52-Week Illustration Challenge as a way to reconnect with drawing and painting. It became an enormous success, with over 7000 members, worldwide. The same year, I won a highly commended nod in the Emerging Illustrator Mentorship with the Australian Society of Authors, and was fortunate to receive a brief mentorship with Sue deGennaro.
I'm constantly learning and growing, and loving this parallel creative journey, alongside my beloved writing.
See current illustrated works below.
My illustrated books and other works include This is Home with Jackie French (National Library, Apr 2019), Australia Map Puzzle (Hardie Grant Travel, June 2019), Mamie (HarperCollins, 2018), FAUNA: Australia's Most Curious Creatures (National Library of Australia, Nov 2019), I Heart the World large format picture book (Hardie Grant Explore, 2020), junior fiction series Evie and Pog (HarperCollins, 2020), Wild, Weird, Wonderful Weather with Stephanie Owen Reeder (National Library of Australia, 2020), AphaKid Windy Hollow, 2020), Wildlife Compendium of the World (Hardie Grant Explore, 2021), the Plume series of picture books (Hardie Grant Explore, 2021 - 2023), Dorrie (HarperCollins, 2023), FLORA: Australia's Most Curious Plants (National Library of Australia, 2022).
My clients include:
- EK Books
- Hardie Grant Explore
- Flow Magazine
- The National Library of Australia
- HarperCollins Children's Books
- The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
- Windy Hollow Books
- Nuovo Group
- Allen & Unwin
- Penguin Random House Australia
- New Frontier Publishing
- Ford Street Publishing
- private commissions
- various international publishers
SCBWI International Conference 2019 |
Download my online folio here or view screenshots here.
If you would like to purchase prints of my work or some of my book stock, head to my Etsy store. Just click the image below . . .
FROM FAUNA: AUSTRALIA'S MOST CURIOUS CREATURES
FROM WILDLIFE COMPENDIUM OF THE WORLD
My first illustrated book, Australia Illustrated, was released in November 2016 with EK Books |
Australia: Illustrated Map, Hardie Grant Travel, 2017 |
World: Illustrated Map, Hardie Grant Travel, June 2018 |
Mamie, my book on the life of May Gibbs, HarperCollins, 2018 |
This is Home: Essential Australian Poems for Children National Library of Australia, April 2019 |
an illustration for my Funny Bones story, The Helper Monkeys Allen & Unwin, November 2019 |
Evie and Pog Books 1 & 2 HarperCollins, February 2020 |