Jill Calder

Jill Calder is an award-winning illustrator with a passion for colour, ink, paper and pixels. Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1991, Jill's work has taken her around the world, most recently to Pakistan and Sri Lanka with the British Council's Drawing Words exhibition of British picture book illustrators, curated by the then Children's Laureate, Lauren Child. Jill's book illustrations include Robert the Bruce, King of Scots by James Robertson, What is Poetry? by Michael Rosen...See more

Jill Calder is an award-winning illustrator with a passion for colour, ink, paper and pixels. Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1991, Jill's work has taken her around the world, most recently to Pakistan and Sri Lanka with the British Council's Drawing Words exhibition of British picture book illustrators, curated by the then Children's Laureate, Lauren Child. Jill's book illustrations include Robert the Bruce, King of Scots by James Robertson, What is Poetry? by Michael Rosen and The Sea by Miranda Krestovnikoff. In 2022, Jill's first retrospective exhibition, 'A Blink of Ink...the Creative World of Jill Calder' was held at Callendar House in Scotland, giving a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of some of her biggest projects over the years. Her work has also been displayed at the V&A Museum, the National Museum of Scotland, the Royal Brompton Hospital and the Royal Scottish Academy. See less