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Kay Widdowson
I studied film and graphics at Chesterfield College of Art and then went on to work as an animator in children's television for five years. My love of books led me to go freelance and for the past 20 years I've been illustrating mainly children's books. I've worked with a range of clients, which include Campbell, Usborne, Autumn, Hodder, Tango, The Welsh Books Council and Lion. I also design greeting cards - recently for Woodmansterne and Clare Maddicott.
I live and work in a tiny Victorian terrace on the edge of Chorlton Meadows Nature Reserve with my two cats.
We love watching the wildlife.
I also belong to a group of printmakers based up in Rossendale. When I'm not drinking tea and chatting, I produce etchings and collagraphs in the old traditional way of a printing press. Lots of mess and smelly turps. Bliss! I exhibit and sell my work in markets and galleries in the North West.
I love collecting stuff - books, packaging, tin robots, little toys, old pots and textiles - anything vintage.
I can't think of a better way of life than to go into my work room followed by my two lovely cats, radio on, tea and biscuits at the ready, brush in hand and create pictures.
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CHOICES on 2022 Klaus Flugge Shortlist!
CHOICES has been shortlisted for the 2022 Klaus Flugge Prize!
Authors
- Sue Baker
- Caroline Cross
- Naomi Danis
- Andrew Fusek Peters
- John Light
- Jana Novotny-Hunter
- Richard O'Neill
- Polly Peters
- Gervase Phinn
- Katharine Quarmby
- Susan Rollings
- Mandy Ross
Illustrators
- Marina Aizen
- Roberta Angeletti
- Laura Barella
- Becky Baur
- Kirsti Beautyman
- Georgie Birkett
- Paula Bowles
- Marta Cabrol
- Joaquín Camp
- Kelly Caswell
- Cristiana Cerretti
- Charlotte Cooke
- Estelle Corke
- Nichola Cowdery
- Dan Crisp
- Jane Eccles
- Alison Edgson
- Kate Edmunds
- Lisa Evans
- Caroline Formby
- Tina Freeman
- Rachel Fuller
- Masumi Furukawa
- Toni Goffe
- Richard Hatfield
- Nora Hilb
- Richard Johnson
- Dubravka Kolanovic
- Annie Kubler
- Anthony Lewis
- Martha Lightfoot
- Summer Maçon
- Diana Mayo
- Angela Muss
- Feronia Parker Thomas
- Andrea Petrlik
- Sanja Rescek
- Daniel Rieley
- Natasha Rimmington
- Bruno Robert
- Simona Sanfilippo
- Elisa Squillace
- Hannah Tolson
- Barbara Vagnozzi
- Natalia Vasquez
- Claudia Venturini
- Anna Wadham
- Kay Widdowson
- Kay Widdowson
- Hannah Wood
- Elke Zinsmeister
Authors & Illustrators
- Pam Adams
- Paul Adshead
- Zuriñe Aguirre
- Alborozo
- Gabriel Alborozo
- Kate Alizadeh
- Marta Altés
- Airlie Anderson
- Sarah Arnold
- Mark Birchall
- Claudia Boldt
- Sebastien Braun
- Megan Brewis
- Katie Brosnan
- Ailsa Burrows
- Caragh Buxton
- Jo Byatt
- Hannah Cumming
- Roxana De Rond
- Courtney Dicmas
- Lucy Dillamore
- Petronela Dostalova
- Jenny Duke
- Jo Empson
- Trudi Esberger
- Rosie Faragher
- Renata Galindo
- Evgenia Golubeva
- Aoife Greenham
- Julia Groves
- Maria Gulemetova
- Gillian Hibbs
- Ariane Hofmann-Maniyar
- Penny Ives
- Kees Moerbeek
- Amanda Montgomery-Higham
- Susanna Moores
- Polly Noakes
- Carolina Rabei
- Roozeboos
- Jemima Sharpe
- Jessica Shepherd
- Jess Stockham
- Phoebe Swan
- Carol Thompson
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