Holly Swain is a children’s book illustrator from Hove
Holly likes nothing more than creating new characters – quite often wearing knitwear! Her work traditionally uses dip pen and ink and watercolour. She works in a studio in her house, which is very cold in winter, hence why many of my characters are wearing woollens!!
Her characters tend to start in her sketchbooks and many of them take on a life of their own. Bears and badgers appear quite often, both usually wearing jumpers!
Many of her products feature her quirky ink and watercolour characters. These can be found on a range of products from greetings cards to badges to colouring-in posters.
Holly’s quirky illustrations will guarantee to make you smile, whilst her imagination will bring out the inner child in you!
I can’t wait to welcome Holly back for a 4th year, ‘Life Love and Me’. Artist open House wouldn’t be the same without her.
