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Sarah Horne is a book illustrator and designer based in London UK. She learnt to draw whilst trying to explain her reasoning for an elaborate haircut at the age of nine. An illustrator for 24 years, she started her Illustration career working freelance for newspapers such as The Guardian, The Independent On Sunday and Print Week. She also worked on commissions for advertising clients such as Nike, IKEA and Kew Gardens.
In 2010, Sarah published Paws, Claws and Frilly Drawers and Tantrums And Tiaras, her first Author/ Illustrator young fiction titles with Stripes. She has illustrated over 100 books, including Charlie Changes into a Chicken, Fizzlebert Stump: The Boy Who Ran Away From the Circus (and joined the library), Puppy Academy, and Ask Oscar and sequels. She loves to include detail and extra visual narratives in her work.
Sarah also runs Sarah Horne Studio, a creative studio producing design for greetings, art prints, gift wrap and licensing for products.
When not at her desk, Sarah loves running, painting, photography, cooking, film, and a good stomp up a hill.
Sarah can often be found giggling under some paper in her London studio.
Clients include:
Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, IKEA, The Guardian, Nike, Kew Gardens, Simon & Schuster, Hachette.
Sarah is represented for book by Jodie Hodges at United Agents.