Katherine Child

Katherine grew up in Devon and studied illustration at Falmouth University in Cornwall. After a couple of years as a background artist for children's animation company King Rollo Films, she went back to Falmouth to study a masters in Authorial Illustration.

From 2010 to 2021 Katherine worked at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, photographing a wide variety of insects for multifarious reasons. Her photographs appeared on screen with Sir David Attenborough, in newspapers and books.

She now works as an author and illustrator, represented by Spring Literary.