Andrew Clarke has many years experience in the Illustration sector, with the focus on providing illustrations of high quality, sensitivity and meaning to a diverse range of customers throughout Europe.
He also paints in oil, specialising in portraits, landscapes, Biblical, mythological and historical scenes. He
The artist creates beautiful, expressive and thoughtful illustrations that embellish and are perfect for narrative books of many kinds, for readers of many ages. Working in various media, he has so far created illustrations for a new edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha and a re-edition of the historic narrative 'The Stranger in Reading' about that town in a flowing Classical style, and colourful and exiting covers for various books of entertaining fiction for young people. The illustrations are commissioned directly from the artist.
Working with publishers and authors to create beautifully presented and absorbing books in a professional manner, the artist endeavours to produce for his clients artwork that is carefully considered and of a quality second to none. With varied media at his disposal such as pen and ink, watercolour, gouache, oil, acrylic, pencil, charcoal and pastel and under his skillful control, the illustrations are created to not only decorate and make the book attractive, but also to enhance the experience of reading by bring to life the story, the characters and their surroundings.
Andrew Clarke graduated from Chelsea College of Art and design in 1998, has exhibited paintings in Madrid, where for several years he kept a studio, has illustrated several books and designed a hermitage for The Virgin of Fatima for the village of Policar in Granada, Spain. He has a wide range of customers, from around Europe, including Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, Madrid (Don Quixote of La Mancha), Two Rivers Press, Reading (The Stranger in Reading), and Troubador Publishers, Leicester.
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