The 2026 retreat will be facilitated by:
Alexis Deacon
Alexis Deacon graduated from the University of Brighton, where he studied Illustration, in 2001. His picture books include I Am Henry Finch and the award-winning A Place to Call Home. Alexis Deacon was one of Booktrust’s ten Best New Illustrators in 2008. His picture book Beegu was a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Slow Loris is number 69 on Time Magazine’s best children books of all time. Alexis lives in Hastings.
http://alexisdeacon.blogspot.com
Picturecamp is produced and hosted by Jorge Martin (https://www.jorgemartin.org).
Jorge Martín
Jorge is an illustrator,, a storyteller and a scribe. He has lived in Mexico, USA, Germany and London. He now resides in a teeny tiny village in Northern Spain, population: 25. His first book ‘J’sais pas quoi faire’ came out in 2014. Since, he has illustrated another 10 books (of which he has written two) in France, USA and the UK.
Previous teachers have included Kitty Crowther, Chris Haughton, Benji Davies, Yara Kono, Jim Field, Natascha Rosenberg, Ben Newman, Nadia Shireen, Marta Altés, Tor Freeman, Ana Pez and Chris Riddell.
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