Helen Panayi is a renowned children’s book illustrator who makes playful mixed-media illustrations. Her work features vibrant colours, real paper textures and fun, expressive characters. Helen has a love of animals (real and imagined) and the natural world. Helen lives in a village near Northampton in the UK. She studied Illustration at Loughborough University, and has gone from strength to strength in the illustration world ever since. She spends her time creating educational images for top ELT Publishers and Picture books for innovative Publishers. Clients include : Owlet Press, Sweet Cherry Publishing, The Open University, Swim England and Mindhouse Productions.