SOCIETY OF CHILDREN'S BOOK WRITERS & ILLUSTRATORS
BRITISH ISLES
SHOWCASE
FEATURED ILLUSTRATOR: SOPHIE GILMORE
Jane's website is www.janeporter.co.uk
Her blog is www.janeporter.co.uk/whats-new
Agent: Philippa Milnes Smith at LAW
Follow her on Twitter @TheJanePorter
Featured Illustrator:
Jane Porter
Quick fire questions
When is your most productive time to work? mornings
Drawing item you can’t live without? Pentel twist-erase pencil
What music puts you in your groove? Bob Dylan, Super Furry Animals, Flaming Lips
Age of child you most love to draw? 3
If you were an animal, what would you be? A water vole
Favourite, yes only one, children’s book of all time? The Wind in the Willows
Illustrator, author from any time you most admire? Vaclav Sivko
Character study for a graphic novel project
From a proposed book of otter opposites
Otter in the bath
Illustration from ‘Twit’ by Steve Cole, Orion 2014
Spread from a proposed animal alphabet book
A-Z poster
Hare with hats – alphabet book proposal
Myrtle in the garden – picture book idea
Pandas – sample for an endangered species book
Spread from ‘Duck Sock Hop’ by Jane Kohuth, Dial Books 2012
Illustration for a Hans Christian Andersen story
Mandrills on a motorbike, proposed counting book
‘Bachelors’ Kitchen’ – print from the show ‘Compendium’
Mural design for Teddington Memorial Hospital
Image from ‘This Rabbit, That Rabbit’, Walker Books 2013
Spread from ‘Bear Feet’, proposed picture book