Book illustrations should complement the writing, not compete with it. A close working relationship with the writer and publisher is essential in deciding where and how illustration will help illuminate the story for the reader.

Our illustrators have worked on many book projects for businesses and individual writers, and as well as being mightily talented in their own right, they have a healthy respect for the partnership between prose and pictures. The work shown here is part of a series of 26 drawings for Marion Sharville's children's book of adventure and poetry, The Other Ark.