Robyn Wilson-Owen

Illustrator

Robyn is an author, illustrator and lecturer based near Cambridge. She mostly works with dip pens, ink, paint and pencil. She always carries a sketchbook and adores detail, texture, pattern and expressive eyebrows. After graduating from the Cambridge School of Art where she studied children’s book illustration, Robyn has enjoyed illustrating books written by Joseph Coelho and Anne Booth, as well as her own stories. Before she started making books, she designed sets, costumes and puppets for theatre, a job which took her on many adventures. Robyn’s books have been selected as a Bologna Exhibition Finalist, The Sunday Times children’s book of the week and among The Guardian’s best books of the summer. They have also been longlisted for the UKLA book awards and the Spark book awards and selected to be part of the Empathy Lab ‘read for empathy’ list. She was shortlisted for the Batsford Prize and the Searle Award for Creativity.