Anna Shuttlewood

Born in Eastern Europe, Anna Shuttlewood grew up surrounded by her father’s paints and pictures. She used to play with sketchbooks, which she would continually fill with her crayons, page after page of big smiling suns with thick hairs of colourful rays.
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In a sense her art hasn’t changed that much – the world she creates is bright and happy, her characters who are often animals are friendly and naïve, they sometimes live in a human-like environment and have human-like thoughts and dreams.

Her pictures are detailed and have many ‘mini-stories’ to discover, one can look and imagine what the characters are like and what their dreams are. She also likes to explore a world of animal – human relationships.

Anna likes to create pictures and stories that are ageless, that would be interesting and amusing and at the same time valid for the children and also the adults. She has an interest in using traditional painting / drawing materials such as watercolour and gouache or pen and ink but also works on Photoshop to maximise her work’s finish.