Katy was raised in Middlesbrough and started her Illustration career as a small child drawing on freshly emulsioned walls around the house! Her parents quickly dissuaded this medium and encouraged drawing with pencil and paper instead.

The idea stuck (the pencil was updated to an ink pot and pen in some cases) and after some lovely time at Art College and a degree in Illustration. She is now a freelance Illustrator living and working in South East London with her husband and two children.

Katy’s illustrations have been used on underground posters, greeting cards, gift wrap, stamps, tea towels, napkins, 3D advent calendars and more. To see her licensing portfolio please click here.

Her debut author/illustrated picture book "Bear and Duck" was published by Harper Collins in June 2015, to a starred review from Kirkus Review. Her subsequent books "Too Many Carrots" and “A Loud Winter’s Nap,” published by Capstone, went on to top the bestsellers list in the US . Her latest book with Capstone, “A Bold Pumpkin Plan,” is available to pre-order now.

Clients Include:
American Greetings
Barnardos
Blue Apple Books
Capstone
Chronicle Books
Harper Collins
Harrods
International Greetings
Random House
Historic Royal Palaces
Milkwood Publishing
Noel Tatt
WHSmiths
Woodmansterne

Photograph by Lisa Bretherick