upcoming Workshops & EVENTS
INGELA ARRHENIUS
ILLUSTRATOR AND DESIGNER
ONLINE: TueSDAY 3rd OctoBER 7-9PM (UK bst)
Join us for an evening with Ingela, and learn about her incredible career, her passion for retro style, and her joy for typography and colour, and hear all about her work and inspirations.
There will be a Q&A opportunity after the talk.
Ingela P Arrhenius is a freelance illustrator, based in Stockholm, Sweden. She has always loved to draw and is excited by anything adorned with drawings. Ingela now works primarily with children’s books and toys - her posters and designer toys are spread all around the world and her books have sold over 10 million copies and been translated into 22 languages.
Ingela was heavily influenced by her artistic parents, and art and design have always played a big role in her life. Ingela worked as an art director in Stockholm before setting up her own business as a freelance illustrator working on an international level across advertising, design, publishing and editorial work.
She’s been commissioned to create print patterns for fabrics, wallpaper, clothes, and stationary as well as packaging, product design, home accessories and toys.
In addition to this Ingela has had several prestigious collaborations throughout the years; stamps for the Swedish Post and a limited edition collection for French beauty brand Biotherm, products for the Modern Museum in Stockholm and books for the Munch Museum in Oslo.
Tickets are sold through Eventbrite and are non-refundable. Zoom links will be emailed directly to you on the day of the event around 5pm UK time.
The event is LIVE - but buying a ticket will give you access to a recording which will be available for one week afterwards. You will be sent a link for this the day after the event.
owl & dog playbooks
Q&A WITH yeonju yang and claudio ripol
ONLINE: THURSDAY 5TH october 7-8.30PM (UK bst)
Owl & Dog Playbooks was founded in 2016 in London by Yeonju Yang and Claudio Ripol. The aim is to explore playful physical book formats that blend meaningfully with illustration and storytelling.
They met while studying product design at the Royal College of Art in London and run the publishing house alongside the design consultancy YARD studio, where they apply a multidisciplinary design experience to create products, branding and packaging for brands such as Polaroid, Tag Heuer, Victorinox or Muji.
Juggling work as a design consultancy for different clients, they see Owl & Dog Playbooks as a route for their design ideas to flow directy to the market and an opportunity to collaborate with designers and artists, both established and unpublished.
Tickets are sold through Eventbrite and are non-refundable. Zoom links will be emailed directly to you on the day of the event around 5pm UK time.
The event is LIVE - but buying a ticket will give you access to a recording which will be available for one week afterwards. You will be sent a link for this the day after the event.
making digital work for you
WITH joel stewart
ONLINE: TUESDAY 10TH october 1-4PM (UK bst)
This workshop is an exploration of how to get digital techniques to fit your needs and an insight into how to use a variety of techniques to enhance the individuality and spontaneity of your work.
Illustrator, author, and animation director Joel Stewart has been creating and illustrating digitally since before it was a thing. In recent years, he has almost exclusively worked with his own self-designed brushes for iPad. For this workshop, he will use examples from his own picture books, illustrations, and animation to share his techniques and show how he embraces digital work in a highly personal way. Including the unusual way he uses some of these processes for collaborative work.
The workshop is roughly divided into three sections:
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A lecture and Q&A
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A practical exercise
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A final group discussion and a chance for any last questions
The workshop is open to all (whatever level). It could be your first time creating or editing digital images, you might be looking to broaden your range of techniques, or currently working on a project that could do with a digital boost.
Joel Stewart is an international award-winning author-illustrator and animation director.
Joel is known internationally for his Dexter Bexley picture books and his illustrations for contemporary authors such as Pam Ayres, Julia Donaldson, Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Rosen, Roald Dahl, and Michael Bond, and classic texts by authors such as Hans Christian Andersen, and Lewis Carroll.
Joel is also the creator/director of the hit CBeebies children's animation series The Adventures of Abney & Teal, which he created, co-wrote and directed under the guidance of Anne Wood and Ragdoll Productions LTD (creators of Tellytubbies, Twirlywoos, Dip Dap, and In the Night Garden amongst many others).
Before and during lockdown 2020, Joel co-created and co-directed with Steven Roberts (Twirlywoos, Dip Dap) and Anne Wood the animation series B.O.T. and the BEASTIES for CBeebies and BBC television.
Joel's awards for illustration include:
Macmillan Prize for children's book illustration in 2000.
Silver medal, Parents Choice, 2002, for The Adventures of a Nose.
Selected for the IBBY Honour List for outstanding book illustration work in 2006 for Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
Winner of 0-5 Nestle Bronze Award 2007 for Dexter Bexley & the Big Blue Beastie.
Chosen by Booktrust in 2008 as one of the ten best new illustrators of the last decade.
Joel is the creator of the Natural Media Drawing Brush Set for Procreate.
Tickets are sold through Eventbrite and are non-refundable. Zoom links will be emailed directly to you a day before the event.
The event is LIVE - and will NOT be recorded.
julie morstad
author and ILLUSTRATOR
ONLINE: THURSDAY 19th october 7-9PM (UK bst)
Join us for an evening with illustrator Julie Morstad and learn about her work, career, passion for illustration and what inspires her to create.
There will be a Q&A opportunity after the talk.
Julie Morstad is an award-winning author and illustrator of many books for children. She has written and illustrated the picture books Today, Time Is A Flower and How To. Her illustrations can also be found in books such as It Began With A Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way, Julia, Child, This Is Sadie and Girl on a Motorcycle.
Julie lives with her family and their dog Minty in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her agent is Emily Van Been at Folio Literary Management.
Tickets are sold through Eventbrite and are non-refundable. Zoom links will be emailed directly to you on the day of the event around 5pm UK time.
The event is LIVE - but buying a ticket will give you access to a recording which will be available for one week afterwards. You will be sent a link for this the day after the event.
developing text and image
in picture books
WITH daisy hirst
ONLINE: TUESDAY 31st october 1-4PM (UK GMT)
A chance to look in-depth at the ways words and images work together in picture books to communicate, create meaning, and provide rich reading experiences.
Daisy will draw on her experience as a picture book maker – and a picture book enthusiast – to explore what makes for a strong, dynamic text-image relationship and how you might develop and enhance this in your own picture book projects.
The workshop is roughly split into three sections:
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A talk about the relationship between text and image in picture books, rooted in Daisy’s own practice
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A series of drawing and writing prompts to help you develop a picture book idea
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A Q&A with Daisy
Daisy Hirst has written and illustrated nine picture books, including The Girl with the Parrot on Her Head (an Ezra Jack Keats Honor Book in the US and shortlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize) and the Natalie and Alphonse series. Natalie and Alphonse have been shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards and Oscar’s Book Prize, translated into eleven languages and featured on CBeebies Bedtime Stories. Daisy’s latest picture book, Get Real, Mallory!, is available now from Walker Books. Daisy has also published four board books with Walker, including Monster Clothes – given to 41,000 children as part of Scottish Booktrust’s Bookbug Toddler Bag.
Daisy studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick and Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. Most of Daisy’s books are illustrated using screen prints, and her practice is rooted in doodling. Daisy also makes prints, comics and greeting cards, runs workshops for adults and children, and recently started a new illustration venture, Jam Today, with fellow illustrator Becky Palmer.
Tickets are sold through Eventbrite and are non-refundable. Zoom links will be emailed directly to you a day before the event.
The event is LIVE - and will NOT be recorded.
Communication Through Composition
WITH bruce ingman
ONLINE: TUESDAY 7th november 1-4PM (UK GMT)
This workshop will give you an insight into how you can develop your compositions to enhance the storytelling in your picture books and illustrations. Bruce will use examples from his own practice to demonstrate the different approaches and elements to think about.
You will have opportunities throughout the workshop to ask Bruce questions about techniques, materials, layout and working in the industry - it’s a brilliant opportunity to learn from one of the industry’s top picture book makers!
The workshop is roughly split into three sections:
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Lecture and Q&A about Bruce Ingman’s practice
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A drawing task created by Bruce relating to the composition
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Group discussion
Bruce Ingman is an internationally acclaimed award-winning author and illustrator recognised as one of Britain's most influential picture book makers. “An unexpected talent that mixes innocence and sophistication… in something that’s distinctively his own” Sir Quentin Blake.
Bruce studied at the Royal College of Art, London. His first book, When Martha’s Away, won the prestigious Mother Goose Award for the Best British Newcomer to Children’s Picture Books (1996) and The Overall Winner of the V&A Illustration Award (1996). His partnership with author Allan Ahlberg has yielded many successes including, The Runaway Dinner, Previously, My Worst Book Ever and The Pencil, which was Winner of the Redhouse Children’s Picture Book Award and Time magazine’s Children’s Book of the Year. He co-wrote Dick Bruna for the biography series, The Illustrators published by Thames & Hudson in 2020.
Bruce is Head of the MA Children’s Literature: Children’s Book Illustration course at Goldsmiths, University of London.
He lives in London and West Cork, Ireland.
Bruce is represented by the Wylie Agency.
Tickets are sold through Eventbrite and are non-refundable. Zoom links will be emailed directly to you a day before the event.
The event is LIVE - and will NOT be recorded.
marc majewski
ILLUSTRATOr and picture book maker
ONLINE: THURSDAY 9th November 7-9PM (UK GMT)
Join us for an evening with picture book maker Marc Majewski, for an insight into how he creates his beautiful, gestural paintings and lyrical books. Marc will also discuss his inspirations and creative life.
There will be a Q&A opportunity after the talk.
Marc Majewski is a French illustrator and picture book maker. He has written and illustrated several books, one of which is Butterfly Child, published in 2022 by HarperCollins and translated into more than ten languages. Using mostly paint or ink to create his illustrations, Marc’s style is characterised by sweeping strokes and bright colours. His work has been displayed in many exhibitions, including the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition and the Society of Illustrators ‘The Original Art’, as well as in magazines such as Internazionale, Süddeutsche Zeitung and La Revue Dessinée.
Marc spent his childhood in the Alps, surrounded by lakes and forests, which deeply influenced his work. Nature plays a significant role in his books. It is often depicted as vast, rich, and colourful, always serving as a source of wonder or a refuge.
Today, Marc lives and works in Berlin.
Tickets are sold through Eventbrite and are non-refundable. Zoom links will be emailed directly to you on the day of the event around 5pm UK time.
The event is LIVE - but buying a ticket will give you access to a recording which will be available for one week afterwards. You will be sent a link for this the day after the event.