SOCIETY OF CHILDREN'S BOOK WRITERS & ILLUSTRATORS
BRITISH ISLES
SHOWCASE
FEATURED ILLUSTRATOR: SOPHIE GILMORE
Featured Illustrator:
Lorna Murphy
Quick fire questions
When is your most productive time to work?
Late morning.
Drawing item you can’t live without? Daler-Rowney Sanguine Smooth sketching pencil.
What music puts you in your groove?
Something mellow like Ella Fitzgerald.
Age of child you most love to draw? Four.
If you were an animal, what would you be? Cat: cuddles and dreaming all day.
Favourite, yes only one, children’s book of all time?
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman(if 3 don’t count then ‘The Amber Spyglass’ (book 2)!
Illustrator, author from any time you most admire?
Shaun TanShaun Tan / Philippa Pearce.
Ralph Sneaks Out - client project
Plane gift - client project
Sultan - client project
Running Cats - client project
Red Riding Hood - from competition prompt
Pogo Clown - client project
Pierre - self-initiated
Monkey - client project
Jack and Big G - from competition prompt
Goofy Demon - client project
Family walk - client project
Eddie airlift - self-initiated
Dog Post - self-initiated
Doctors - client project
Dancing Tigers - self-initiated
Crying Girl - client project
Circus people - client project
Bored Cat 2 - self-initiated
Bored Cat 1 - self-initiated
Baking Day - client project