Cee Biscoe

a bit about me

LATEST NEWS:

I've been very fortunate to keep extremely busy with book commissions for various publishers, a number of whom I've worked with before. I've also started developing some of my own projects too - whenever I get enough spare time, which isn't that often! But I'm keen to vary my style and subject matter, so I do like to rise to a challenge - and recently started experimenting with digital techniques which I hope to master alongside my traditional methods (watch this space!)

GENERAL

I’m lucky to have been illustrating picture books full-time since early 2008.  So far, I've illustrated over 50 children's books for a variety of publishers around the world.  My first picture book, commissioned by Little Tiger Press, was  ‘Gruff The Grump’, written by Steve Smallman, which was published in 2009 in the UK, US and 9 other countries. It was one of the 'Reads Of The Year' in the Younger Children category of the Red House Children's Book Awards 2010.  

I am proudly represented by the UK illustration agency, Advocate Art (please see Links for contact details.)  My books have been published by Little Tiger Press and Jellycat (UK), Koala/Scholastic (Australia), Chunjae Education (S Korea), and in the USA by Tyndale, Scholastic USA, Thomas Nelson and Zondervan (Harper Collins) as well as Morfem in Slovenia, amongst other international clients.

Before being commissioned for picture books my previous early projects included short novelty books for toddlers for Dorling Kindersley US, greetings cards for Two Bad Mice and Ivory Tower and various other one-off illustration contracts. My way of drawing and painting has continued to change and develop, especially after gaining an MA in Children's Book Illustration as a mature student at Cambridge School of Art in 2008.  But believe that we never stop learning...

Although children's illustration is now my focus, I also worked occasionally in a more adult style for a cool little cult magazine called One Eye Grey.

I love music (loads of stuff, though rarely anything very mainstream), language, humour, studying French, daydreams, worm-farming (!) and the little haven in the garden where I work - a converted potting shed I call the 'Shedio'.   I'm endlessly fascinated and enthralled by nature, especially birds, which I adore. And bugs. Well, not the ones that make you ill, or the kind that bite you in bed. But creepy crawly ones are fine.

I dislike straight lines...! ~ ~ ~

When I have the opportunity I enjoy life drawing too (which is a great discipline) but, for me, illustrating picture books has to be the most rewarding of all.