Amanda Hall Illustration

General information

Amanda Hall is an award winning international illustrator, living in the UK. She is well known for her work for the children’s publishing market on both sides of the Atlantic. She has illustrated over fifty books for children.

Trade Market Many of Amanda’s illustrated books for the trade market are translated into different languages and are sold around the world.

Educational Market Amanda has extensive professional illustration experience within the educational market, for whole books as well as for individual stories spanning just a few pages. In particular Amanda’s areas of expertise cover the natural world, as well as stories from different cultures and periods of history.

UK Clients Anova Children’s Books . BBC Enterprises . Barefoot Books Ltd . British Telecom . CUP . Cosmopolitan Magazine . Dorling Kindersley . Frances Lincoln Ltd . Lion Hudson plc . Little Tiger Press . Longman . Macmillan Publishers Ltd . OUP. Radio Times . Reed Educational . Templar Publishing . The Guardian . New Internationalist

US Clients Eerdmans Books for Young Readers . Hampton Brown . Harcourt School Publishers . Heinemann . High Five Magazine . Houghton Mifflin Company . Ladybug Magazine . McGraw-Hill . National Geographic School Publishers . Nelson Education . Reader’s Digest . Rigby . Scholastic . Sleeping Bear Press . Spider Magazine

“Amanda has developed a technique which allows her to produce illustrations that are brimming with colour and decorations. Her work is characteristically vivacious, bright and full of movement, overflowing with designs that take on an almost three- dimensional quality. She cites the myths, legends and fairy tales of cultures from all over the world as her inspiration for the fantastical and magical creatures that she produces. Indeed, the powerful artistic and historical inheritance of India, North and South America and Europe, is evident in much of her work, which often has an inherently indigenous quality. Amanda lives and works in Cambridge, creating her illustrations in a timber shed at the bottom of her garden that she has named ‘The Shadowhouse’.When she is not working as an illustrator, she also performs as a singer.”
Eleanor Hall for Chris Beetles Gallery, St James’s, London