| Ann Remen-Willis | remenwillis@gmail.com | Street Address | 1420 Lovejoy #713 |
| Barbara Pollak | barbara@happypix.com | Bio | Barbara Pollak is San Francisco based illustrator, author and painter who lives with an assortment of children, animals and fish.
Her clients have included: Girl's Life, Time For Kids, Scholastic, Lerner, Penguin Putnam, Rigby, Rodale Press, Random House, Harcourt Brace and many others. She has also created interactive cards, posters, games and textbook illustrations for children and teen markets. Pollak authored and illustrated a picture book about gardening, community and food called 'Our Community Garden' published by Beyond Words Publishing in 2004.
In 2011, Pollak and her husband co-founded Hard Boiled Industries, a new company which specializes in ipad/iphone/kindle and android based Apps for children.
In her free time she enjoys traveling, painting and collecting all things Japanese. |
| Beppe Giacobbe | b.giacobbe@beppegiacobbe.com | Bio | Beppe Giacobbe graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and then continued his studies in New York at the School of Visual Arts. Although eventually returning to Milan, Beppe's palette reflects the lights of his beloved homeland of Sicily. Beppe's work is regularly winning awards in all the major U.S. and Italian annuals. Beppe is especially pleased that United Airlines currently includes his work in their illustrated campaigns; his imagery has regularly been on Travelsmith catalog covers; and his award winning graphic author portraits are covers for Rizzoli's classics. Beppe loves illustrating children's books... his depictions of city noises for Clang Clang!, was just published by Simon & Schuster.
Aside from illustrating, Beppe enjoyed 12 years of teaching at the European Institute of Design and always makes time for sculpting from knick-knacks and pieces of wood he finds along his walks. |
| Carol Yoshizumi | zumi@earthlink.net | Bio | Carol Yoshizumi has a sweet, joyful style that appeals to family, children and tween markets. Her work has been widely published in books, magazines, greeting cards and other print materials by clients such as American Girl, Peaceable Kingdom Press, Hallmark, and Disney. |
| Cheri Lynn Riley | rileys@fidnet.com | Bio | I have worked in the graphic arts field for almost 20 years and would like to follow my dream of illustrating for children's enjoyment. |
| Craig Orback | craigart@msn.com | Bio | Craig Orback is a freelance children’s book illustrator living in the Northwest and received his B.F.A. in illustration from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle in 1998. He has illustrated Nature's Paintbox, The Can Man, Keeping The Promise A Torah's Journey and other award winning children's books. Some of his clients have included Simon and Schuster, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lerner Publishing, Lee & Low Books and Scholastic Inc. He teaches children's book illustration and oil painting at several local colleges. In his free time he enjoys painting landscapes and sharing his books with kids during school and library visits. |
| Dennis Hockerman | dennis_hockerman@annremenwillis.com | Bio | Whimsical designs, rich colors and wonderful details highlight Dennis' illustration for children as well as his unique hand-painted children's furniture. When he's not painting, he enjoys relaxing pondside at his home in Mequon, Wisconsin. |
| Dominic Catalano | dominic@annremenwillis.com | Street Address | 1420 Lovejoy #713 |
| Doug Roy | doug@annremenwillis.com | Street Address | 1420 Lovejoy #713 |
| Jane Smith | jane@superjane.com | Bio | Jane Smith loves paper. She has boxes and boxes of it, all organized by color. She enjoys creating collages that celebrate a child’s discovery of the world around them. Her work strives to capture those little moments when for the very first time a snail is revealed beneath a leaf or a garbage truck is seen out the window. And when the challenge of marrying a novelty element with images with text comes up, Jane is particularly excited. There is nothing more satisfying than a perfectly timed lift-the-flap or a surprising pop-up! |
| Jim Caputo | jim@groggydog.com | Bio | Jim graduated from art school in 1986 and began his career as a graphic designer for an ad agency in Philadelphia. After doing work by hand for a few years, he finally acquired a Mac. This allowed him to move on as an art director working for a few design studios along the way.
Illustration has always been his passion and in 1998 he opened Groggy Dog Studios. After sending out a promo piece, he landed an editorial illustration for the Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition. Groggy Dog Studios was up and running. “As a kid,” Jim said, “ I was always reprimanded for daydreaming and now I'm getting paid for it!”
In 2000, he left Philadelphia and moved to Orlando, Florida. While looking for a full-time job, he took the time to develop his technique and experiment with a mixed media of watercolor, pastel, colored pencil, and brushed ink. This allowed for a fresh look and began doing work for magazines such as chickaDEE and Muse.
After nine years of working as an art director by day and illustrator by night, he decided to make illustration a full-time gig in 2007. Jim quips, “My neighbors are convinced I’m hiding under the Federal Witness Protection Program.”
His client list includes The Kennedy Center, Scholastic, Ideals Publications, Norwood House Press, and Harcourt.
In his spare time, he enjoys physical fitness, going to movies, and reading. All of which provide an endless amount of inspiration.
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| Jon Goodell | jon@annremenwillis.com | Street Address | 1420 Lovejoy #713 |
| Josee Bisaillon | info@joseebisaillon.com | Bio | Josée Bisaillon grew up in St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada. Rather than follow in her father's footsteps as a veterinary surgeon, she chose to cut animals from paper: they were colorful, low maintenance and always in fine health. Today her illustrations, a mixture of collage, drawings and digital montage, take us into a world so richly detailed and multidimensional that you'd hardly think it all came out of only one person's imagination.
When not making pictures, Josée enjoys knitting socks for her young daughter Charlotte and is touring the world as a virtual Rock Band guitarist.
Bisaillon's has won many Applied Arts Illustration Award and LUX Illustration Awards in Québec, and was a finalist for the 2008 Governor General's Literary Awards in Canada. |
| Joy Tricarico | artists@carolbancroft.com | First Name | Joy |
| Joyce Hesselberth | joyce@spurdesign.com | First Name | Joyce |
| Judy Stead | judy@judystead.com | Bio | My freelance illustration career actually began in fourth grade, raking in playground quarters from friends who commissioned me to draw horses. Later, in college, I majored in my two favorite subjects, reading and drawing, a good combination for working as (sequentially) teacher, graphic designer, art director, illustrator, author, and painter. My last real job title was Sr. Interactive Designer for a top secret early-internet company in Cambridge, MA. I liked to say I was a construction worker on the Information Superhighway.
I live with my family in Charlotte NC where my "treetop" studio overlooks some of Mother Nature's wildest work. My imagery appears in books, magazines, institutional and corporate publications, and licensed surface design.
The Adobe Illustrator CS WOW! Books series features my art in the 2010‚ 2006, and 2004 editions. My creative work has been recognized with honors by Print Magazine's Regional Design Annual, Art Director's Club, and Bookbuilders of Boston. In favorable reviews from The Horn Book Guide, School Library Journal, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews, my illustration has been called "exuberant, joyful, vibrant, lively, inviting, vivid, energetic, expressive".
I've illustrated a dozen children's trade books, and THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN NORTH CAROLINA, credits me as author/illustrator. |
| julia Woolf | juliawoolf@earthlink.net | Published Works | The Bubble Gum Kid (Running Press)
Theo's Thanksgiving (Price Stern Sloan)
All Gone (Playhouse Publishing)
Squeaky Clean (Playhouse Publishing)
Zane the Train (Kindermusik)
My Pop Pop is a Pirate (Running Press)
Snow Wonder (Random House)
Snowman Surprise (Intervisual Books)
Reindeer Run (Intervisual Books)
Special Star (Intervisual Books)
Gingerbread Joy (Intervisual Books) |
| karen craig | karen.craig1@gmail.com | Bio | Karen Craig has been designing and illustrating for children for many years. She welcomes all projects, both large and small.
Her first job was to conceptualize, design and illustrate kids' educational materials for Upstart, now owned by the Highsmith Company.
This led her to a job with Nickelodeon where she was a senior designer for seven years, learning the many facets of working within the realm of licensed brands, products and properties.
Karen has illustrated over 25 books for various publishers, based on the Nickelodeon series, Blue's Clues.
Karen is a big fan of paper engineering and also enjoys creating 'artist books' of all kinds.
The Museum of Modern Art published two of her pop-up card designs for their 2007 through 2011 Holiday lines. One of these designs was recently selected as a Louie Award finalist by the National Greeting Card Association.
Karen's cloth book concept 'Play Pockets' was published by Innovative KIDS and received a Seal of Excellent from Creative Child Magazine.
She is currently developing additional soft book and board book concepts, although she has yet to seek out a publisher. Inquiries welcome!
Member SCBWI
BFA Toy Design, The Fashion Institute of Technology |
| Karen Donnelly | donnelly@brighton.co.uk | type of art work | figurative, lively, humourous user-friendly illustrations suitable for children,young adults and the more mature reader!
Good with fiction or non fiction, especially historical material. I use a black ink line and colour up with watercolour, or digitally. I also enjoy working in black and white. |
| Kim Gatto | kim@designsbygatto.com | Bio | Kim joined Christina Tugeau's team in February of 2006. Some clients she’s worked with through Christina Tugeau are: McGraw Hill Publishing, Benchmark Publishing, Hartcourt Publishing, SRA (MMH) Kaleidoscope, and William H. Sadlier, Inc, and Zonderkidz. In addition to artwork, Kim enjoys graphic design and making handbags. Kim live’s in New Jersey, with my husband Michael, son Derek, and three kitties: Choco, Skittle, and Charlie. |
| Laura Tallardy | mail@lauratallardy.com | Bio | Laura Tallardy is an illustrator living in romantic Brooklyn, New York. She has illustrated over 40 books in the past 4 years, including Zondervan's Lily Series, Scholastic's Friend2Friend series, and most recently the Girl's Body Book from Applesauce Press. Laura enjoys puttering with computers, daydreaming, and watching old sci-fi movies when she really should be painting. She also enjoys zooming around town on her pink Vespa. |
| Len Ebert | len@annremenwillis.com | Street Address | 1420 Lovejoy #713 |
| Margaret Lindmark | mlindmark@comcast.net | Bio | Please contact Margaret at: mlindmark(at)comcast(dot)net
Margaret Sanfilippo Lindmark was born in San Jose, California. Her father had a taste for adventure and drove the whole family down to El Salvador when she was six years old, where they lived for the next five years. That experience provided her with wonderful memories that continue to inspire her interest in Hispanic themes and the Spanish language. She lives with her husband in Greenbrae, California, enjoying every minute of being an illustrator. |
| Meredith Johnson | meredith@annremenwillis.com | Street Address | 1420 Lovejoy #713 |
| Renate Lohmann | renate@annremenwillis.com | Street Address | 1420 Lovejoy #713 |
| René Milot | renemilot@renemilot.com | Bio | René brings his boundless energy and years of communications to solving visual problems with elegant, realistic oil painting. Of course he also works digitally when required, but oils are his main love and the medium that has garnered him an impressive list of international honors.
As both an instructor and illustrator, René addresses work with humor and pragmatism. His college illustration courses and lectures are touted as “Everything you’ve always wanted to know about illustration and your other teachers were afraid to tell you.” Clients appreciate his creativity coupled with straight forward professionalism.
For René, work and play must be closely related: “mens sana in corpore sanum” (a healthy mind in a healthy body). When he has the chance, he relishes the excitement of windsurfing, mountain biking and snowboarding. After long hours of painting, he enjoys ending the day with friends around great food and of course wine. |
| Rosiland Solomon | rosiland@annremenwillis.com | Street Address | 1420 Lovejoy #713 |
| Sally Vitsky | svitsky@comcast.net | Bio | Sally Vitsky has always been drawn to the tactile quality of paper and the endless possibilities of constructing imagery in 3-D. As of late, Sally has focused on using recycled and “green” materials in her work. One of her favorite clients is the American Forest & Paper Association who is always happy to have another mode to stress sustainability and recycling efforts. Sally’s work has been included in the Society of Illustrators 3-D Salon and the annual 3 X 3 magazine competition. During the rare moments when not cutting and gluing, Sally is happily at home in Richmond, Va. with her husband and dog, exploring the growing local arts venues and The Virginia Museum, and enjoying the empty nest that resulted from 2 little boys turning, miraculously, into young adults! |
| Shelagh Inglesby | shelaghinglesby@gmail.com | Bio | I am a Florida illustrator and graduate of the University of South Florida in 1995, majoring in drawing and painting. I began as an artist working in traditional mediums, from watercolor, to acrylic paints, oil paints, charcoal, conte crayon, ink and pastels but now I enjoy the clean paperless and environmentally friendly aspect of creating my illustrations in computer art programs Photoshop and Corel Painter X.
I work in layers so there is a big advantage in being able to edit the final image for a picture book. I use lighting effects, shadows and a textured brush for a luminous dreamy background. |
| Susan Gal | susan@galgirlstudio.com | Bio | Susan Gal began her illustration career as a poster and calendar artist in Los Angeles and then became an 'in-betweener' (the artist who fills in the movements between key-visuals ) for Disney Animation Florida. The lure of the silver screen dulled and Susan returned to her native California where she happily creates lively, textural and whimsical illustrations in the beautiful Bay Area.
When not illustrating, Susan enjoys biking, backpacking, and hiking to really high places with her husband and daughter.
Susan wrote and illustrated her first children's book, Night Lights, to be published by Knopf in June 2009. |
| Susan Lawson | susan@susan-lawson.com | Bio | Susan is a graduate of the BFA program, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Ladybug, Click, Highlights High Five, Family Fun, Weekly Reader, Good Housekeeping, Money, and Ladies Home Journal. She enjoys gardening, photography, writing, and walking her dog. |
| Tanja Bauerle | tanja@bauerle.com | Bio | Even though Tanja has been an artist her entire life she has worked professionally as a Graphic Designer for over 12 years. Her design sense and strong composition and color skills can clearly been seen in her illustrations. Since 2003, Tanja has strictly worked as a freelance illustrator and designer with her main focus being children’s illustration. Her first picture book, “There’s a Coqui in My Shoe!”, written by Marisa de Jesus Paolicelli and released by ChiChi Rodriguez Books in 2007, won the 2008 10th Annual International Latino Book Awards for Best Educational Children's Book - English. Her second book “The Adventures of Salt and Soap at Grand Canyon” published by the Grand Canyon Association will be released in the spring of 2009. In addition to design and illustration projects varying from character studies, book illustrations, greeting cards and marketing collateral, Tanja has enjoyed working on numerous book jackets ranging from children’s titles to adult fiction and non-fiction titles. Her love of story telling drives her to continually refine her craft. Traditional mediums such as acrylics, water color as well as pen and ink are Tanja’s favorite, but she also loves the freedom that digital tools such as Photoshop offer.
Tanja is an active member of the Arizona chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and helps out as Co-Illustrator Representative. After having lived in Germany and Australia, Tanja now calls Arizona her home with her family and her two Goldens Otto and Peanut and cat Ducky.
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