Ann James
It’s my responsibility to draw out the emotion behind the words on the page. Ann James Ann James was an art teacher before she took up children’s book illustration over […]
Illustrators
This section features some of my favourite illustrators many of whose books and illustration artworks found their way into our home library and my collection of original illustration art.
Harry Reade: Australian author, illustrator and so much more
Harry Reade (1927-1998) was a multi-faceted character. An ardent Australian communist who was a journalist, a seaman, a truck driver, kangaroo shooter, fisherman, political activist, comedian, film director, cartoonist, animation
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Shaun Tan: on finding poetry in the prosaic and art coming from life
“I also thought [aged 18] that picture books were a trivial art form and nothing a serious artist would have anything to do with. My opinions about that have changed
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Robert Ingpen: he wore odd socks and had trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality
Growing up in Geelong in the 1940s, Robert Ingpen was so obsessed by stories that, for a time, he had trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. At school, he continued to
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