Angela Rozelaar

24th June 2014: Angela Rozelaar is an illustrator who constantly creates and experiments with different styles and subject matter. Capturing the essence of a character and dealing sensitively with decorative elements are only two of the factors which make Angela such a popular artist. More recently she has been working in a more painterly style and her bird with cherry blossom promises a beautiful new approach.

Leading card company Woodmansterne have recently commissioned Angela to create imagery with a 'School' theme; 'Thank you Teacher' and 'First Day at School' - with great results to complement an existing new baby image published by Woodmansterne earlier in 2014.

Angie grew up in Kent, and has since lived in London, Brighton, Devon, Sweden and France. After a childhood spent mostly drawing, she went on to study at Chelsea Art School.

Since then, her path to becoming a full time illustrator has been a meandering one via jobs in various London theatres and galleries. It was when she began working with a local primary school on a project to support literacy that she rediscovered the world of children's book illustration and her love for character design. She started posting her work on her blog and from there she launched her career as a full time illustrator, attracting early commissions from educational publishers and moving on to illustrate novelty and picture book titles for publishers in Korea and the UK. 

Angie joined Yellow House in 2012 and is now based in Normandy where she shares an old farmhouse with her family, seven cats (yes, seven) and a little brood of hens. She works from her studio in a converted hayloft and loves using an expanding assortment of materials to create her illustrations, including gouache, inks, watercolour, all sorts of pens and pencils and a computer.  

 As you can imagine, Angie has lots of exciting projects in the pipeline! Please contact Yellow House Art Licensing for more details