British illustrator Inga Moore moved with her family to Australia when she was eight, but a fondness for the English countryside never left her, as she grew up reading books with British illustrators. When she returned to England as an adult, and after a time working in various positions in London, she moved out to the English countryside once again to pursue her illustration career in more suitable surroundings.
As a result of that love of the land, and a long time admiration for great landscape painters as well as Golden Age illustrators, Moore produced a unique and beautiful style, richly detailed and textural in the midst of trends toward minimal children’s book illustration, and brought it to bear illustrating her own titles, like Six-Dinner Sid, and new versions of classics like The Wind in the Willows and The Secret Garden, among others.
Moore works in a multi-media approach, using pencil, ink, watercolor, colored pencil and occasionally oil (bringing to mind the multi-layered charcoal and watercolor techniques of Golden Age American illustrator Elizabeth Shippen Green).
Moore is somewhat reclusive, and as far as I can tell, does not have an official web presence, so I’ll point you to places where others have posted her work.










Charley, long time reader here. Just want to tell you you’re a national treasure. I hope this blog goes on forever. Thanks a lot for this labour of love.
Thanks. Glad you’re enjoying the posts!
Hi Charley – I used to live in the same house as Inga and would love to get back in touch with her. Do you have any idea how I might?
Thanks
Hi Mary. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any direct way; she does not appear to have her own presence on the web. The best I can suggest is to try to send a note through one of her publishers, or a gallery that handles her original art.