Nick Sharratt |
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Nick knew he wanted to be an artist from his primary school days. He graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1984 and has been working as an illustrator ever since. His work encompasses books for babies through to books for early teens and he’s produced around 170 books to date. The illustrator for multimillion selling author Jacqueline Wilson, Nick also collaborates with authors on picture books as well as writing his own. When he teams up with his friend Sue Heap they work together on both the words and the pictures. Awards won by Nick include The Children's Book Award, The Sheffield Children's Book Award, The Nestle Gold Prize, The Stockport Schools Award and The Experian Big Three Award. In 2006 he was the official World Book Day illustrator.
When is your birthday and where were you born?
Bexleyheath. 09/08/1962
What is your favourite book?
The Giant Jam Sandwich
Most treasured possession:
A little toy traction engine that I’ve had all my life.
Favourite song:
It’s very gloomy but I love ‘The Day Before You came’ by Abba.
Favourite film:
The Railway Children
When did you start illustrating?
I’ve drawn since I was a toddler but I was nine when I got serious about it and decided I was going to be a professional artist one day.
Where do you get your ideas?
From everywhere and nowhere. From observing the world around me but also from doing lots of daydreaming and remembering what it felt like to be a child.
Three top tips for being an illustrator.
1. Really obvious but do lots and lots and lots and lots of drawing, and try to complete your drawings as often as you can.
2. Do plenty of drawing from real life as well as working from your imagination.
3. Be prepared to draw anything, even if it means finding clever way to do it.( sometimes if you just show part of something or hint at it, it can be more effective than trying to draw the whole thing!)
Favourite memory:
When I was eleven and we went on our first camping holiday to the Lake District, Northumberland and Swaledale in Yorkshire which remains my favourite place in the whole world.
Hobbies:
Napping, snoozing and having lie-downs.
It you weren’t an illustrator what would you be?
I think I’d have to go back to being a paperboy again.
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