Katriona Chapman

Katriona Chapman was born in Kingston-Upon-Thames in 1978. She studied at Goldsmiths College and has a first class degree in English and Theatre. She has lived and worked abroad, and travelled extensively in Europe, Mexico and Central America.

She is fascinated by visual story-telling, and works as a professional illustrator which allows her to combine her two main passions - reading and art. She works in black & white and colour, and her favourite media are pencils, coloured pencils, charcoal and pastels.

Natural history, portraits and the human figure are among her favourite subjects, and she has completed many portrait and pet-portrait commissions alongside her illustration work. Her work has featured in ‘Illustration’ magazine and ‘Artists and Illustrators’. She has exhibited in the Mid-Sussex Arts Festival and in the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art.

In 2005 she had a solo exhibition in the Green Room of the National Theatre on London’s South Bank. She is a member of the Brighton Illustrators Group.

Recently she was the overall winner in Derwent’s ‘Draw a Fairytale’ competition, with her illustration of Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘Ugly Duckling’.

Contact details:

Katriona Chapman,
171a Breakspears Road,
Brockley, London SE4 1UA

Tel. 07909 841284
e-mail: katrionachapman[at]yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.iris-illustration.co.uk