WINNER Retail Art Gallery of the Year
Jackie Morris
Jackie Morris was born in Birmingham in 1961. As a child she was told that she couldn't be an artist, but despite this she learned to paint.
On leaving college she found work in editorial, illustrating magazines like Radio Times, New Statesman, New Society and Country Living. She worked for years illustrating books and in 2016, she was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal for Something About a Bear. The book includes her water colours of different types of bear.
The Lost Words is a book of "spells" by Robert Macfarlane with illustrations by Jackie Morris. This book was voted the most beautiful book by UK booksellers in 2016.