Charlie Mackesy

  • 4 stars across 1 book

   Charlie Mackesy (Author, Reader)  
  British artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy began his career as a cartoonist for  The Spectator  , before becoming a book illustrator for  Oxford University Press  . His award-winning work has featured in books, private collections, galleries and public spaces around the world. He worked with Richard Curtis on the set of  Love Actually   to create a set of drawings to be auctioned for Comic Relief, and with Nelson Mandela on a lithograph project,  The Unity Series  . His internationally bestselling book,  The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse  , was published in October 2019.
 
 Charlie's words and illustrations have brought comfort to many and have been shared online around the world as well as on t-shirts for Comic Relief, magazine covers, street lamp posts, school classrooms, cafes, women's safe houses, prisons, hospital wards and as NHS hospital computer screensavers.
 
 Away from art Charlie co-runs Mama Buci, a honey social enterprise in Zambia. He lives in London with his dog Barney.
 
 

 

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