Justin Todd

My working life can be divided into four equal parts.

I studied painting at Wimbledon and illustration at The Royal College.

I started out as a historical illustrator but after ten years describing everyday life from the Stone Age to the present I was keen to escape. I approached Penguin Books and spent another ten years painting paperback covers for every imaginable subject from horror to romance.

Fashions change and I had to find a new outlet, I moved into the world of Children’s classics such as “Wind In The Willows” and the “Alice Adventures” and continued there until I retired. Now my painting is purely to indulge my own fantasies.