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.
