Artists' Profiles

Learn more about our brilliant artists

Kate Gunn

After leaving Art college with a textile degree I combined working as a freelance designer and teaching art at a secondary school. I sold many designs over the years to ...
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Sarah Livingstone

I left university with a degree in fashion and launched into a career designing for the main High Street retailers which, in turn, led me towards creating characters for ...
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Janine Drayson

I love using pens and watercolours to create fun and quirky designs that make people smile!

The countryside and animals I see, including our border collie, Rosa, and ...
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Alison Vickery

After Art School, I worked as a designer and design manager for some time, then started to freelance, concentrating on painting and illustration for private and commercial ...
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Camilla Charnock

I've been working as an illustrator since leaving art school 20 years ago. I work mainly for magazines but have also illustrated several books, done illustrations for ...
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Emily Johnston

I have illustrated cards, gift wrap and other fun products for Phoenix for two years now. My first card was "Candy Tree" in 2005 and my latest work includes the Height Charts ...
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Alison Hullyer

I graduated from Newcastle in 1990 after studying Graphic Design, Illustration and Printmaking. I now live in Cambridge with my husband and two children, Emily (9) and Daniel ...
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June Armstrong

June Armstrong's delightful pen and watercolour illustrations first came to our attention in January 2004, after our brochure had found its way to her through a friend of her ...
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Carla Koala

I am a very lucky person as I get to draw fun, silly, quirky, funky, cool images for a fabby company who has continued to employ me since Noah had his ark, and I'm still ...
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Amanda Loverseed

“It is amazing to think that I have been working with Phoenix Trading since the turn of the century! It has been a creative whirlwind designing more cards and other products ...
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Helen Smith

I graduated from Brighton in 1991 and worked as a freelance illustrator for several years, mainly on children's educational books and products. I also started designing cards ...
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Anna Cattermole

Anna is an art graduate who trained as an Illustrator. While trying to establish herself as an artist, she worked, among other things, as a waitress and a ...
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Julia Rigby

Julia Rigby first design Farm Invitation came out in the spring of 2002. Since then, her designs have been pouring into the Phoenix office by the truck ...
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