Creatives
Jen Sherrington
Jen is a children’s author and educator based in Perth, Western Australia. Her life started on a farm where wheat, sheep and a love of books grew. As a child, Jen often turned stories into adventures and adventures into stories with words, pictures and games.
Steve Heron
When he's not shooting marshmallows out of a home-made cannon or hanging out with the local magpie population, Steve uses his forty years of experience working with children in social and emotional wellbeing to cultivate and underpin his writing.
Robert Vescio
Robert Vescio is an award-winning author of children’s picture books, based in Sydney. Robert’s books are included on the NSW, VIC and QLD Premier’s Reading Challenges, and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Australia.
Leanne White
Leanne White grew up in the beautiful sea-side town of Albany. A very free range child, Leanne and her brothers roamed the bush or beach for hours. Wildlife encounters (feathered, furred or finned) were part of their common days play.
Colin Montefiore
Colin was born and raised on a beautiful rural property in Lesmurdie, located on the outskirts of Perth in rugged hill country. Much to his parents' distress he began an art career early, drawing freely and often on the walls of his home as a child, despite their attempts to curb his more wayward artistic tendencies!
Irene King
Irene King spent a happy childhood living in the South-West of Western Australia on a farm surrounded by animals and nature. She was encouraged by her mother at a very early age to pursue her love of drawing.
Toni Hough
Toni Hough was born in Perth, WA in 1967, however spent the early years of her life living in Peaceful Bay where her parents and grandparents owned the caravan park. Toni spent many of her formative years living in a small community that enabled a childhood full of freedom and one that developed a connection to nature.
Barrie Smith
Barrie has always been a doodler and enjoys creating different characters. It wasn’t until his final years of school and the years to follow that he began trying his hand at cartooning.
Teena Raffa-Mulligan
Teena Raffa-Mulligan is a West Australian author who knows an unusual remedy for wrinkles, the secret fuel to put a grandpa into orbit and a drastic solution to the dilemma of a cranky dad.
Sian Turner
Sian Turner spent a happy childhood growing up in Perth alongside her four siblings. Being part of a big family meant there was great company to share in imagination games, freedom to roam streets on bikes, and plenty of time to read books in the branches of a Jacaranda tree in the backyard.
Heather Charlton
With creative parents, art materials were always on hand in Heather’s family home. In early childhood she was given her own special sketchbook which she proudly filled with coloured pencil drawings of characters copied from magazine and newspaper advertisements.
Aleesah Darlison
Aleesah Darlison is an award-winning Australian children’s author who writes picture books, chapter books and novels. Aleesah’s books often feature animals and environmental themes.
Kate Capewell
Kate grew up in the 1970’s-80’s on the South Coast of Western Australia. Her youth was free, wild, full of colour and the scent of the salty sea air. As a child, she roamed the coastline on extended camping trips with her siblings and widower father; making sandcastles on deserted beaches, and creating “Periwinkle Farms” in the wind-ruffled rock pools.
Meg Hewick
A freelance Illustrator from Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, Meg Hewick currently lives with her husband in Western Australia. Meg studied Fine Art at Canterbury School for the Arts in Ottawa, Ontario and graduated onto The Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto.
Rebecca Cool
Rebecca was born in 1956 in Western Australia, and went on to study at Claremont School of Fine Art and Fremantle Tafe. She has been a full time artist for her entire working life.
Carolyn Eldridge-Alfonzetti
Carolyn Eldridge-Alfonzetti lives adjacent to bushland in Sydney and enjoys birds and other creatures visiting her garden. She is the author of two picture books inspired by Australian wildlife: Rainforest Feasts and Rocky the Cocky, both published by Wild Eyed Press.
Marion Duke
Marion Duke is an artist with a special interest in book design and illustration. Marion’s passion for books, particularly old books often features strongly in her fine art projects.
Peter Ryan
Peter Ryan is a Perth based professional artist since 2010. His artwork has always been referred to as bright, colourful, fun, entertaining and uplifting. The opportunity to create art to be enjoyed by all ages and demographics, incorporating connection between of nature and community appeals greatly to the type of art Peter loves to create!