About

Hello, I'm a freelance Illustrator currently based in Bristol, UK.

If you have any queries or possible commissions regarding literary work please contact my agent Alice Williams at https://www.alicewilliamsliterary.co.uk/

For all other queries regarding illustration commissions, questions or collaborations please email me at lara.t.hawthorne@gmail.com.

I sell a variety of printed products on my online shop.

Through Betty & Dupree my prints are distributed to shops throughout the UK and internationally.

Contact: Email / Instagram / Twitter / Facebook

Published Work

12 Days of Christmas 2020: published by Francis Lincoln, Quarto
Small Worlds Earth, 2020: published by Big Picture Press
Small Worlds Water, 2020: published by Big Picture Press
Hidden Adventures 2020: published by Egmont
Herbert’s Garden, 2020: published by Big Picture Press
Alba the Hundred Year Old Fish, 2019: published by Big Picture Press
Silent Night, 2018: published by Francis Lincoln
The Night Flower, 2018: published by Big Picture Press
Cover illustration for 'England: Poems from a School', edited by Kate Clanchy. Published by Picador, 2018.
The King of Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy, 2016: Published by Picador, imprint of Pan Macmillan Publishing
Herberto, 2014: Published by Bruaá Editora
I have written and illustrated a children’s book called Herberto, that has been published in France, Portugal, South Korea, Slovenia Italy, China and Brazil. Soon available in the UK and US. More information available here and here

Awards

The Night Flower (wrote and illustrated) was selected to represent Arizona at the 19th annual National Book Festival in Washington DC, USA. It was included in the 52 Great Reads reading list, distributed by the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book.
Winner for the 2020 CBHL Annual Literature Award of Excellence in Children and Young Adult Literature2020 (The Night Flower)
Nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway award, 2018 (The Night Flower)
Shortlisted for the AOI’s WIA, 2018 (Children’s book category: The Night Flower)
Shortlisted for the Lowry's Children's Book prize, 2014.
Shortlisted for the Bristol Pound competition, 2015.
Guest illustrator at the Cheltenham Illustration Awards, 2014

Press

Two starred Kirkus Reviews for Silent Night and 12 Days of Christmas
Publishers Weekly 2020 online
The Scotsman, June 2020 in print & online
Picture Books Blogger, January 2018, Online
Lancashire Evening Press 2018 & Online
Guardian, December 2016, in print & Online
Delo Newspaper, July 2015, in print & Online
RTV4 Short documentary, June 2015
Publico Newspaper, 2014

Features

Make A Place Online 2018
Together and Sunspell Online 2017
Illustration Age Online 2017
Brown Paper Bag Online, 2015
Artistic Moods Online, 2015
Ape on the Moon Online, 2015
Iheartmyart Onlne 2015
Mincho Magazine Issue 04, 2015
Publico July, 2014 [in Print] & Online 2014
Na revista Atual/ Expresso July 2014
'i' magazine July 2014
Ruadebaixo Issue No. 98, April / May 2014
Loop magazine Alphabet print series 2014
Wrap Magazine Issue 08 [in Print] 2013
Amelia's Magazine Best Graduate Illustrators, 2013
BOOOOOOOM 2013
Jackie Magpie 2013

Exhibitions

Solo exhibition: Blaze gallery 2018
Solo exhibition: Cake Kino 2018
Dark Forests: Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, 2017
The Grain Barge, 2017
Hive: Hamilton House, 2017
Hamilton House, Open studios & exhibition, 2016
Prints Charming, Hamilton House, 2016
London Book fair, Illustration exhibition, 2015
Hamilton House Exhibition, 2015
Artist of the Month, Hamilton House, 2015
Little Universes, Jesharna, Slovenia, 2015
Here Gallery, Stokes Croft, 2015
Solo exhibition: Blaze Gallery, 2015
Opposites: Paper Arts, Bristol 2014
Beginning Middle End: Here Gallery, Bristol 2014
Three at Five, Falmouth, 2013
New Designers, London, 2013
D&AD New Blood, London, 2013
Falmouth University Graduate Show, Falmouth, 2013
Beginning Middle End Exhibition, Truro, April/May 2013
Untitled, Falmouth, 2012
Neutral Norway, Stroud, 2011
Neutral Norway, Falmouth, 2011
Creative Collective: Open, Oxford, 2011
Home Again, Oxford, 2010

Copyright information
All materials on these pages are copyrighted. No part of these pages may be used for any purpose other than personal use, unless explicit authorisation by Lara Hawthorne. Therefore, reproduction and modification in any form or by any means is strictly prohibited without prior written permission.