Melissa Castrillon - Illustrator

Melissa Castrillon is an English and Colombian illustrator based in the southeast of England. She spends a large chunk of her days illustrating and writing picture books for children as well illustrating and designing book covers for readers of all ages. She has illustrated more than ten picture books, written three and they have been translated into more than 20 languages around the world. Melissa is motivated by punchy colour combos, inventive compositions, ingenious page design and unusual patterns. And she probably spends too much time daydreaming about all of these things and how she can apply them to new projects. In 2019 she was awarded the gold medal by the Society of Illustrators in New York for her wordless book The Balcony. That same year she was asked to re- imagine the covers for Philip Pullman's HIS DARK MATERIALS series. In between book projects Melissa spends time designing screen prints & Riso prints.