I am a children’s author and illustrator from Bristol, UK. I’ve been obsessed with drawing ever since I could hold a felt tip in my clammy little fist, and I have fond memories of sprawling out on my parents’ living room carpet for hours on end, filling sketchbooks with my doodles.

My debut picture book ‘The Bear Who Stared’ (Templar) was nominated for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 and my follow up ‘The Lumberjack’s Beard’ was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2018. Since then I have gone on to write and illustrate titles for Little Tiger, Quarto, Walker Books, and was recently commissioned to design the illustrated autumn trail at Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire.

When not busy drawing kung-fu kicking llamas, heavy metal badgers, or starey bears, I can be found ambling through the woods or reading ghost stories.

I am represented by Jodie Hodges at United Agents.

“He writes the words and he draws the pictures and he didn’t need any help. It’s amazing!”
(Matilda, age 4)