Talented Children's Book Illustrator Gillian McClure exhibits in the Grantham Room at Newby
1 Apr 2010
Gillian McClure’s career as an author/illustrator started when a School's Inspector spotted a book she had made for her class of infants and sent it off to Andre Deutsch who published it. Since then she has had many books published and has accumulated a great many illustrations; some she shows in schools along with her sketches and roughs and some she has framed up for exhibitions.
Gillian McClure’s career as an author and illustrator spans thirty six years. Her books have been translated into many different languages and Selkie, published by Random House, won the US Parent’s Guide to Children’s Media Award. Selkie has been re-printed by Plaister Press.
Some of her picture books, like Tom Finger, published by Bloomsbury, have been inspired by fairy tales. She tries to make her stories timeless and placeless yet relevant to children today.
Gillian uses her stories and illustrations to inspire children and students to write and illustrate their own books. Go to her Visits page for more information about her workshops and talks in schools and read about The Wishing Eel a published book that year 2 Primary School pupils helped create during one of Gillian’s residencies.
In this exhibition, Gillian will be selling artwork from Selkie, Bruna and Tom Finger as well as some pieces from her earlier books. She will also include some sketches and roughs, showing the working progress from first idea through to finished artwork.
Also available from the Entrance Pavilion will be the children's books featuring Gillian's artwork:
The Land of the Dragon King and other Korean Stories hardback £14.99
Mario’s Angels hardback £11.99
Bruna paperback £4.99
Tom Finger paperback £4.99
Selkie paperback £5.99
The Little White Hen hardback £9.99
What’s the Time Rory Wolf? paperback £2.99
What Happened to the Picnic? hardback £5.95
Tog the Ribber hardback £5.95
