
Ailsa Burrows

As a little girl, Ailsa Burrows was given stacks of books, oodles of crayons and heaps of encouragement to be creative. Some of her earliest memories are of scribbling on paper napkins whilst munching on triangles of toast in a cafe with her Grandpa.
She knew it then: when she grew up, she wanted to draw. And, possibly, eat lots of toast.
Ailsa's a little bit more grown up now. She studied Fine Art at university before working at a design agency and a couple of art galleries. Recently, Ailsa left the world of art galleries to gain a Masters in Children's Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art, where she discovered just how exciting adventures in the world of picture books could be.
Picture books introduced Ailsa to art, stories and the big wide world. Now, she loves to make stories that stay with people. Stories that make people feel the way she felt when she was little loved and inspired.
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- Marina Aizen
- Roberta Angeletti
- Laura Barella
- Georgie Birkett
- Marta Cabrol
- Kelly Caswell
- Cristiana Cerretti
- Charlotte Cooke
- Estelle Corke
- Dan Crisp
- Jane Eccles
- Alison Edgson
- Kate Edmunds
- Lisa Evans
- Caroline Formby
- Tina Freeman
- Rachel Fuller
- Masumi Furukawa
- Toni Goffe
- Richard Hatfield
- Nora Hilb
- Richard Johnson
- Dubravka Kolanovic
- Annie Kubler
- Anthony Lewis
- Martha Lightfoot
- Diana Mayo
- Angela Muss
- Andrea Petrlik
- Sanja Rescek
- Natasha Rimmington
- Bruno Robert
- Simona Sanfilippo
- Elisa Squillace
- Barbara Vagnozzi
- Natalia Vasquez
- Claudia Venturini
- Anna Wadham
- Kay Widdowson
- Hannah Wood
- Elke Zinsmeister
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- Pam Adams
- Paul Adshead
- Zuriñe Aguirre
- Gabriel Alborozo
- Marta Altés
- Airlie Anderson
- Sarah Arnold
- Mark Birchall
- Claudia Boldt
- Sebastien Braun
- Ailsa Burrows
- Hannah Cumming
- Courtney Dicmas
- Jo Empson
- Trudi Esberger
- Renata Galindo
- Julia Groves
- Maria Gulemetova
- Gillian Hibbs
- Ariane Hofmann-Maniyar
- Penny Ives
- Kees Moerbeek
- Amanda Montgomery-Higham
- Susanna Moores
- Carolina Rabei
- Jessica Shepherd
- Jess Stockham
- Phoebe Swan
- Carol Thompson
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