This Folio Life: Bringing different styles to Evelyn Waugh
Folio has published several editions of Evelyn Waugh novels throughout our 70-year history. Different styles of artwork lend themselves well to his stylistically diverse novels ...
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This Folio Life: Illustrating the rhythm and movement of poetry
Artist Lesley Barnes has created more than 50 charming illustrations to bring The Folio Book of Children’s Poetry to life. In this blog, she explains ...
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The Folio Life: Illustrating the children’s classic Black Beauty
Annette Hamley Jenkins was commissioned to illustrate our new, beautiful edition of Anna Sewell’s classic Black Beauty. Her illustration style, not to mention her ability ...
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This Folio Life: Honouring the poems of Wilfred Owen
Neil Bousfield’s sensitive work was the perfect commission for the third and final book in Folio’s limited edition War Poets series. Neil lives in Norfolk, ...
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This Folio Life: Recreating Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty
Arthur Rackham is renowned throughout the world for his beautiful illustrations to some of the most famous fairy tales; images that enchant the reader. But ...
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This Folio Life: A blog 65 million years in the making
We asked American palaeontologist Steve Brusatte to ensure that the illustrations for Folio’s edition were as accurate as they could be while still reflecting the world of Crichton's Jurassic Park. Here, Steve talks us through this process.
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This Folio Life: Revisiting John Burningham’s classic illustrations
This time last year I was enormously fortunate to go to the house of Helen Oxenbury, one of my favourite children’s authors and illustrators, and the widow of John Burningham.
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This Folio Life: Illustrating Winston Churchill
“With most book covers, you're trying to convey a concept rather than a person, but this was the opposite,” says illustrator Peter Strain.