Olivia is a professional artist and illustrator.
She lives and works in central Brittany, France.

For someone who was probably always going to end up an artist, Olivia’s career has followed a somewhat circuitous route. Inspired to do her first large horse drawing at the age of 6 after seeing a poster for an exhibition of work by British sculptor Elisabeth Frink in a downstairs loo at a friend’s house, thirty or so years later Olivia had the opportunity to attempt a second, conscious ‘homage’ to Dame Elisabeth Frink in the storybook ‘Muck & Magic’ by Michael Morpurgo, in the capacity of a professional illustrator, for Walker Books.
In 2025 Olivia won the Carnegie Medal for Illustration for Clever Crow, published by Walker Books.

‘There is a wildwood spirit about Olivia’s work. She seems to be in touch with an inventiveness that everyday life knocks out of most people, as we toil through adulthood. She knows it’s not easy to keep that spirit alive, and consequently
there is a determined joy in her work, a playfulness with hidden gravity.

Animals and children are Olivia’s touchstones, all living creatures in fact, in their various landscapes. There are some imagined beasts too, but living ones triumph.  Olivia calls herself ‘an untaught artist and accidental illustrator’. Perhaps that’s her secret. Her work speaks to everyone, unforced, and full of soul.’

Kathleen Jamie, poet

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For all illustration commissions and enquiries please contact Alison Eldred.
For other queries, contact Olivia.