about Sarah Horne

Sarah Horne learnt to draw whilst trying to explain her reasoning for an elaborate haircut at the age of nine.  An illustrator for almost 25 years, she started her Illustration career working freelance for newspapers such as The Guardian, The Independent On Sunday and Print Week. She also worked on commissions for advertising clients such as Nike, IKEA and Kew Gardens.

She has illustrated over 100 books, including Betty Steady and the Toad Witch, Charlie Changes into a Chicken, Fizzlebert Stump: The Boy Who Ran Away From the Circus (and joined the library), Puppy Academy, and Ask Oscar and its sequels.

She loves to include detail and extra visual narratives in her work, she is a fan of anarchic characters, surreal moments, and wild weather. When not at her desk. Sarah loves running, painting, photography, cooking, film and a good stomp up a hill.

Sarah can mostly be found giggling under some paper, in her London studio.

Clients: Penguin, Simon and Schuster, Oxford University Press, Usborne, Hodder, Orchard, Watts, Macmillan, Walker Books, Guppy Books, Chicken House, Holiday House Books, Lifeways, Spinnacker Trust, IKEA, Nike, The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday, Print Week, New Law Journal, Inside Housing