About

When I was a little girl I escaped to the library as often as possible where I spent hours devouring picture books and minutely examining their illustrations. I was very young when I decided to become an illustrator like my then favourite illustrator C.W. Anderson (what little girl doesn’t love horse drawings?). Encouraged by my creative family, I gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from Northern Illinois University. Following my move to Australia, I worked in many areas of illustration, including picture book illustration.

I live in Sydney with my husband and son and spend my days happily illustrating books. I love to experiment with new techniques for my illustrations, but always seem to return to my beloved and well-used colour pencils.

Released November 2016, One Christmas Eve (by Corinne Fenton for Black Dog Books an imprint of Walker Books) was the inspiration for the 2016 Meyer Christmas Windows in Melbourne.

I was awarded the CBCA Eve Pownall Award for my first picture book, Killer Plants (Penguin). Bear in Space (Walker Books) and Summer Blue (Scholastic Australia) were both awarded as Notable Books by the CBCA. My books appear on the Premier’s Reading Challenge lists and have been shortlisted or won awards, including My Little World (Omnibus), which was shortlisted for the 2012 Wilderness Society Environment Award, and Dinosaur Dads (Scholastic Australia) and The Croc & the Platypus (Walker Books), which were shortlisted for Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year.

Info

Email:
CLICK to Email Me!

Partial Client List:
Penguin Random House Australia
Walker Books Australia
Scholastic Australia
Black Dog Books
EK Books
The Five Mile Press
Omnibus Books
Dorling Kindersley
Reader's Digest
Australian Geographic
The School Magazine

Organisations:
Regional Illustrator Coordinator, 
Australia East, 
Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI)

Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA)

Australian Society of Authors (ASA)