All about me...
Hello, I graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 2005, and now live and work in Bristol, UK. I work primarily for children’s publishing, including Child's Play, Bloomsbury, Random House Children’s Books, Templar Publishing and CBeebies Driver Dan’s Story Train.
I love thinking up stories and characters, sketching, and trying out colours. I love the part when they seem to come to life on my desk in front of my eyes. One of my favourite places to be is in my studio, with the radio on, a cup of tea and and pencil in my hand.
My first author/illustrator book, Scary Mary, was published in the USA by Tiger Tales in Spring 2012, and my first picture book title with Bloomsbury Publishing, London, was published in 2014, called 'Little Lou and the Woolly Mammoth'.
I have the pleasure of illustrating The National Trust Family Organiser 2015, 2016 and 2017, as well as the National Trust advent calendar.
I was also one of 120 artists chosen to paint a Shaun the Sheep for Bristol's 'Shaun in the City' year. As well as one of 70 to paint a giant Gromit, as part of the ‘Gromit Unleashed’ exhibition. Both raising money for the Wallace and Gromit 'Grand Appeal', the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity.
When I'm not drawing and painting, I can be found swing dancing, cycling or playing the piano.
Email: paula.bowles@gmail.com
Agent: Plum Pudding Illustration
Instagram: @PaulaBowles_Illustrator
I love thinking up stories and characters, sketching, and trying out colours. I love the part when they seem to come to life on my desk in front of my eyes. One of my favourite places to be is in my studio, with the radio on, a cup of tea and and pencil in my hand.
My first author/illustrator book, Scary Mary, was published in the USA by Tiger Tales in Spring 2012, and my first picture book title with Bloomsbury Publishing, London, was published in 2014, called 'Little Lou and the Woolly Mammoth'.
I have the pleasure of illustrating The National Trust Family Organiser 2015, 2016 and 2017, as well as the National Trust advent calendar.
I was also one of 120 artists chosen to paint a Shaun the Sheep for Bristol's 'Shaun in the City' year. As well as one of 70 to paint a giant Gromit, as part of the ‘Gromit Unleashed’ exhibition. Both raising money for the Wallace and Gromit 'Grand Appeal', the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity.
When I'm not drawing and painting, I can be found swing dancing, cycling or playing the piano.
Email: paula.bowles@gmail.com
Agent: Plum Pudding Illustration
Instagram: @PaulaBowles_Illustrator
