Forrest Burdett

Forrest is a queer illustrator from New Jersey with an eye for whimsy, a heart full of magic, and a passion for vibrant colours. He studied Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology and now lives in Portland, Oregon. He loves finding magic in the small, everyday moments and uses his art as a means to explore and share them. He spends his days creating, reading, and eating an obscene amount of chocolate. You can see more of his work at forrestburdett.com.

Emma Yarlett

Highly commended in the Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2011, Emma began her career as an author and illustrator whilst still studying Illustration at Falmouth University. She now paints, draws, collages, designs, doodles, splatters and sketches for a living from her studio at home in Falmouth, near Truro, and loves every minute of it! In her spare time Emma loves to eat jaffa cakes, craves pets and suppresses a desire to spend her entire income on colouring pencils.

Eleonora De Pieri

Eleonora De Pieri discovered illustration at art school: it was love at first sight! She works as an illustrator in Italy and abroad but also loves to write her own stories. She also teaches watercolour at a design institute in Verona. She dreams of living in a house in the woods with a cake always in the oven.

Fermín Solís

Fermín Solís was born in Cácerces, Spain in 1972. He is a self-taught comic artist whose uniquely quirky artwork has appeared in publications in his home country as well as abroad.

Ella Bailey

Ella Bailey is a freelance illustrator currently living in Devon, in the UK. She specializes in children’s books having illustrated many board, novelty and picture books. Ella works mostly digitally and likes to incorporate lots of texture and limited, lively palettes into her artwork. Some of her favourite things to draw include children, animals and ghosts.