John Woodcock's clear, clean and crisp maps are a welcome companion to all those who set out on Pat Bowen's 20 Sussex Walks. John studied illustration at Norwich School of Art in the 1970s and has worked as a successful freelance illustrator ever since. Extremely versatile, he uses the latest digital technology to produce work on a wide range of subjects in many styles. In 2000 he was the worthy joint winner of the Times Educational Supplement award for best information illustration.

He lives in Suffolk with his wife Carol who is also an illustrator and designer (they occasionally collaborate on projects) and their family. Confirmed francophiles, John and Carol have a 'ruin' in South West France and dream of moving there one day.

Maddy lives in the Sussex countryside at the foot of the South Downs, working in a converted flint farm building, often visited by local wildlife, and the neighbouring ducks. She shares this idyll with her husband, young son, and a cat.

Trained at Cambridge and Brighton University Maddy has been working as an Illustrator for the last 15 years on a diverse range of publications. However, over the last few years she has specialized mainly in children’s picture books, which she enjoys very much. She uses a wide range of media, combining traditional hand drawn artwork with computer applications. When not illustrating, Maddy exhibits her paintings, prints and drawings, occasionally opening her home during the Brighton Festival artists’ open houses and has also started a course in ceramic sculpture. Her ambition is to make quirky animated films with her husband, a visual effects producer, making her lively illustrations come to life.

Hugh trained at Canterbury College of Art as a graphic designer. Relief printmaking was his craft subject at college, particularly linocutting.

After many years as a commercial designer, creative director and illustrator in London he bought a restored Columbian press, circa 1830, and moved to Kent. He now spends much of his time producing linocuts and woodcuts alongside his graphic and illustration work, some feature in his design projects, particularly for packaging and display. Subject matter ranges from animals and birds to people and places.

He has an obsession with line and deploys a stylised graphic treatment much influenced by ethnic art and a reverence to the likes of Edward Bawden and Eric Gill. When cutting a lino block he will always look for linear patterns to be contrasted with solid areas of black.

Exhibitions include - the National Theatre, the National Print Exhibition, Printmakers Council Open, the Society of Wood Engravers, the Society of Wildlife Artists, the Affordable Art Fair in London, Originals 07 at the Mall Galleries and the Brighton Art Fair 2007.

www.hughribbans.com

Barbara Childs studied graphic design at Brighton College of Art where Raymond Briggs and John Lawrence were among her tutors. After an art teaching career she began wood engraving twelve years ago at Diana Bloomfield's class in Lewes.

Her published work includes illustrations for Garden Design Journal, two books for Blackstaff Press and several book-plate commissions, along with woodcut and lino prints for three popular limited edition books about Lewes created by Paddock Printmakers: High Street, Cliffe and the most recent Public House. Barbara also had a joint mixed media exhibition in 1997 and has contributed work for the annual Printmakers’ Artwave exhibition in Lewes for almost a decade.

www.barbarachilds.co.uk

Curtis Tappenden's Ardizzone-inspired cartoons for An Eccentric Tour of Sussex bring the pages to life with vigour and joyful distinction.

Curtis is a Sussex-based author and illustrator living with his family and friends in Brighton. For twenty years he has relentlessly pursued the working techniques of his 'line' heroes, Edward Bawden, Edward Ardizzone, Ronald Searle, John Minton and Sussex's own Eric Ravilious. What has emerged is not a pastiched, hybrid style but a quirky notation all of his own.

When not writing books (sixteen to date) or illustrating those of others, Curtis widely exhibits watercolours, lectures in National Diploma Art & Design and Foundation Studies at the University College For The Creative Arts in Kent, designs and illustrates for The Mail On Sunday newspaper, regularly pens for the national art press, visits art clubs with his unconventional presentations and is a performance art poet and painter.

If all this was not quite enough, Curtis is also a founder member of Beyond The Level Artists' Open Houses, where for the past fifteen years he has hosted his popular show 'The Wrong Side Of The Tracks' as part of the Brighton Festival.

www.brightonillustratorsgroup.com

Ivan Hissey's haunting portraits for Sussex Writers & Artists and Sussex Women combine digital Pop Art graphics with extraordinary photo-realism.

Ivan studied design and illustration at Brighton University and Royal College of Art, and has illustrated continuously in a diverse range of mixed media for over thirty years. He has been combining computer art with conventional techniques for more than ten years and his illustrations, caricatures and cartoons have appeared in books and magazines around the world. International titles include 'The Crash Course Series' (over 3000 cartoons!), Make Your Own Digital Scrapbook, How to Paint Like the Impressionists, 100 Things You Don't Need a Man For and most recently, Cartooning and Animation, a step-by-step project book which Ivan is both writing and illustrating.

Ivan enjoys collecting printed ephemera from the 1950s and has a large collection of vintage children's board games. He lives in East Sussex with his wife and three children.

Rudyard Kipling		Virginia Woolf
Lee Miller		Eric Gill

Sarah Young's exquisite scraperboard artwork for 20 Sussex Churches and 20 Sussex Gardens embraces the same artistic purity of line as the great linear masters such as Thomas Bewick and Eric Gill. Full of sensual energy and classic black-and-white elegance, her portraits enhance the text, very much in the Arts & Crafts tradition.

Sarah's illustration work has been widely published in magazines such as House & Garden, Country Living, Radio Times and the Sunday Telegraph as well as books by Oxford University Press and The Ivy Press.

Sarah exhibits widely as a printmaker, working mostly in screenprint, linocut, woodcut and collagraph and is co-founder of the Brighton Art Fair, a major and highly acclaimed annual exhibition of contemporary artists. Her prints are often narrative-based, referencing myths, folk tales or circus and burlesque imagery.

www.sarahyoung.co.uk

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