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Petr studied painting at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague from 1988. He graduated as a Master of Fine Art in 1994. As a student Petr met his English wife Claire and in 1995 they moved to England. Petr started to write and illustrate books soon after his first child was born. The first […]

Sue Heap, who mentored Kasia Kasia Matyjaszek, studied photography at Hull College of Art.

Award-winning author and illustrator Catherine Rayner studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art and mentored Naomi Howarth.

Alison Murray grew up in Lanarkshire and studied textile design at Glasgow School of Art and mentored Laura Clark.

Cate James has worked on 12 illustrated books, as well as being long-term Illustrator in Residence at The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, and in-house designer for Paper Tiger.

Nick Sharratt lives in Edinburgh and is the illustrator of over 250 children’s books, including the award-winning picture books You Choose, Pants, Eat Your Peas and The Foggy Foggy Forest.

Mick Manning and Brita Granström have been making award-winning children’s books, as a double-act, for twenty years.

Natalie Russell teaches Illustration at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and writes and illustrates picture books in her studio in Broughty Ferry. 

Debi Gliori is well known for both her picture books and her novels for children and has been shortlisted for all the major prizes, including the Kate Greenaway Award (twice) and the Scottish Arts Council Award.

Ross’ Greenaway short listed book The Elephantom was adapted into an acclaimed play by those clever National Theatre War Horse people. There’s a Bear on My Chair was also short listed for the Greenaway and won the inaugural Amnesty CILIP Honour.