Jackie Morris

Jackie Morris
Born 1961 (age 56–57)
Birmingham, England
Education Bath Academy

Jackie Morris (born 1961) is a British writer and illustrator. She was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2016. Her illustration of The Lost Words was recognised by UK booksellers who voted it the most beautiful in 2016.[1]

Life

Morris was born in Birmingham in 1961. Her family moved to Evesham when she was four. As a child she was told that she couldn't be an artist, but despite this information being drilled into her by teachers she decided to throw caution to the wind and learn to paint. She found success at the Bath Academy of Art.[2]

On leaving college she found work in editorial, illustrating magazines like Radio Times, New Statesman, New Society and Country Living. She worked for years illustrating books and in 2016, she was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal for Something About a Bear. The book includes her water colours of different types of bear. She lives in a small house by the sea in Wales, painting and writing and dreaming and proving her teachers wrong. But, all said and done there are times when she would rather have followed her first ambition, which was to be a bear.

The Lost Words is a book of poetry by Robert Macfarlane with illustrations by Morris. The book has clues to words like acorn, blackberry and conker. The book was said to be inspired by 21st-century editions of the Oxford Junior Dictionary in which some words like kingfisher associated with nature were omitted in order to include technical terms like attachment, broadband and chatroom.[3][4] In 2017, Laurence Rose organised a protest letter to the dictionary and it was signed by Margaret Atwood, Sara Maitland, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Macfarlane, and Morris. Much debate ensued but the creative outcome was an idea for joint work by McFarlane and Morris.[3] This book was voted the most beautiful book by UK booksellers in 2016.[1]

Awards

Works include

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kean, Danuta (2017-11-21). "Doctor's diary This is Going to Hurt wins public vote for book of the year". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  2. ↑ "JACKIE MORRIS | Children's Book Author and illustrator". brightstarbedtimestories.com. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  3. 1 2 3 Norbury, Katharine (2017-10-02). "The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris review – sumptuous". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  4. ↑ Flood, Alison (2015-01-13). "Oxford Junior Dictionary's replacement of 'natural' words with 21st-century terms sparks outcry". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  5. 1 2 3 Ltd, Sequence Collective. "Tir na n-Og awards Past Winners - Welsh Books Council". www.cllc.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  6. 1 2 "Jackie Morris | Graffeg Publishing". www.graffeg.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  7. ↑ Painting of three hares
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