Chris Saunders

My background has always been routed in design. Since graduating from the University of Northampton with first class honours in BA Illustration I have worked largely within the card and crafts and graphic design industries. I’m currently a freelance illustrator/creative designer. I mostly produce characters, patterns and prints for crafts, scrapbooking and licensing purposes.

I’ve created a home for my work and ideas at my new website; www.thecurioustreehouse.co.uk, you can also visit my blog at; www.thecurioustreehouse.blogspot.co.uk where I create craft projects, review products and much more! I work both digitally and using watercolour paint and graphite technical drawing pencils onto stretched (hot pressed) watercolour paper.

My ideas are normally an accompaniment to a short story or brief or a spontaneous response to something witnessed/experienced.To view more of my work please visit: www.coroflot.com/cjillustration I intend to keep creating characters and designs and growing as an illustrator. I would hopefully like work with other companies to produce printed products based on my designs and increase awareness of The Curious Treehouse. I would relish the opportunity to illustrate children’s picture books; I’m currently working on illustrating and developing an original story.