The portfolio of illustrator Anne-Marie Perks

Welcome to my portfolio! As a child, I loved to draw, paint and make ‘stuff’. Write stories that included witches and magic and space travel and perform in my own musical extravaganzas. As an illustrator, artist, animator and designer, I still draw and write stories, though space travel doesn’t feature in them (much) anymore, and it’s been a while since I put on a musical extravaganza. 

I like to work in a way that often mixes traditional art making with digital techniques. My paintings are predominately in watercolour and coloured pencil though I often experiment with possibilities in oil, ink, acrylic, collage and printmaking. Clay models are a part of my working process for character design and lighting options in my compositions. My work has been published in children’s books and adult non-fiction. Other projects include artwork for calculator faces, package illustration, illustrative logos, and advertising and editorial illustration. 

I have a BA Honours degree in Illustration, an MA in Children’s Illustration from North Wales School of Art and Design (Glyndwr University), and have studied animation at Central St Martin's School of Art and attend courses at the Prince's Drawing School in London as much as I can. I’m also an art educator and teach animation, illustration, design and life drawing two days a week at Buckinghamshire New University.

Professional organisations I belong to are:
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
Association of Illustrators (AOI)
Society of Authors (SOA)