About me...
- I've worked in studios of all shapes including a stable mews with a chocolaterie next door, an old co-op meat storage building complete with hooks still in the ceiling and currently above a milkshake shop in seaside Brighton, UK. Since leaving college, I've illustrated over 30 books, won several awards and exhibited around the world. My work is entirely hand produced, mainly in watercolour, coloured pencil, graphite and collage but sometimes I venture into acrylic and inks.
I also work on collaborative art projects such as an animation (in conjunction with Fat Pebble Media) - 'Welcome to Youthtopia' which became a large scale urban projection and huge hand decorated painted carts as part of a festival life drawing event- 'Enlightenment - Cabinets of Wonder' (in conjunction with Draw and the Campaign for Drawing).Illustration awards include:
2012 Fall 2012 Selection, Junior Library Guild (US). 'The Raiders'
2010 Gold Medal, Nautilus Book Awards (US), 'Little Leap Forward'
2010 The Campaign for Drawing. Highly commended. 'Enlightenment, Cabinets of Wonder.'
2009 Fall 2009 Selection, Junior Library Guild (US), 'Little Leap Forward'
2004 Best Children’s Book, UK Christian Book Awards, 'The Lion Bible for Children'
2003 Children’s Book of the Year, CBC,'The Lion Bible for Children'
2003 Best Children’s Book of the Year, Bank Street College (US),'Brigid’s Cloak'
2001 Best Children’s Book of the Year, NAPRA review, 'The Lady of Ten Thousand Names'
Illustration exhibitions include:
2012 'Picture This', Riverside Gallery, Richmond, London, UK2006 'Stories from the Silk Road', Chicago Institute of Art, Chicago
2002-2004 'Imagine' (touring exhibition), Blakesley Hall, Birmingham,
Holburne Museum, Bath,
Guildhall Gallery, Guildford,
Manchester Art Gallery
2000 'The Contemporary British Illustrators', The Illustration Cupboard, Downstairs at the Air Gallery, London
Information about fine art paintings, drawings and current fine art exhibitions can be found on: http://www.helencannfineart.co.uk
