Jessie lives in sunny Brighton, amongst seagulls and ice-creams, she can be found most days in her studio, surrounded by bits of cut up paper and colouring pencils. She likes stripy socks, Jaffa cakes, and has a raging addiction to Desert Island Discs.
Authors and illustrators
Jocelyn Kao
Jocelyn Kao is a freelance illustrator from Taiwan. She works on fashion illustration, children’s illustration, print and pattern design, fashion design and concept art. She loves travel, walks on streets, tasting local food and exploring different cultures. Her inspiration comes from everywhere, especially art museums and antique stores. Old curiosities always catch her attention and she is a cat and coffee lover.
Joe Lillington
Born in London and now based in Bristol, Joe Lillington graduated from University College Falmouth in 2014 and since leaving has had two titles published by Flying Eye Books, TOBY AND THE ICE GIANTS and NEFFY AND THE FEATHERED DINOSAURS.
John Bendall-Brunello
John is married and lives part of the year in Cambridge and part in Cannes in the South of France. He studied at the Cambridge College of Arts and, since graduating, has illustrated numerous picture books. John’s other interests include chess, snooker, badminton, playing the piano and travelling to far-flung countries.
Jon Davis
Jon Davis studied Illustration at Glyndwr University, Wrexham, and after that spent some time doing 3D animation. Some of his films were screened around the world, but eventually he came back to illustration. Jon loves the liveliness and breadth of imagination you can use with children’s books and works digitally, in Photoshop with a tablet and pen. He currently lives and works in Twickenham.
Jonathan Woodward
Jonathan Woodward developed an interest in wildlife and art at an early age and is now an award-winning wildlife illustrator. Jonathan is passionate about conservation and the protection of wildlife and as the father of two young children, is proud to help pass this message on to the next generation.
Jonny Lambert
Jonny grew up knowing he wanted to be an artist of some sort. Encouraged by his grandfather and, later, his art tutor at the Reigate School of Art and Design, Jonny is now an internationally-published author and illustrator, children’s book designer and paper engineer. He lives with his family and a menagerie of animals near Horsham, West Sussex.
Jordan Wray
Jess Mason
Jess Mason is an illustrator, cat lover and reader of books. She graduated from the University of Worcester with a First in Illustration in 2018, and was awarded the Otter Barry Narrative Illustration prize. Since then, she has worked on a variety of middle grade books and picture books and is proud to be represented by Plum Pudding Illustration Agency. She lives in Worcestershire with her cat Steve and her human Mike.
Jannie Ho
Jannie Ho loves illustrating books for kids, and sometimes she writes them too. She lives in the greater Boston area with her family and a pet fish, Sir Bubbles. In her free time, she loves drawing herself as a chicken in comics.