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www.theresabreslin.co.uk
Debi Gliori is the author illustrator of more than forty picture books for children. She is best known for her Mr Bear series (Orchard), which has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide in territories from Japan to America, and the latest title, Mr Bear’s Holiday, won the Scottish Arts Council Children’s Book Award in 2000.
She trained at Edinburgh College of Art, at the end of which she received a travelling scholarship and went to Milan to soak up Italian design. Since then Debi has freelanced as an illustrator, initially in advertising, and for the last 12 years working exclusively in publishing.
For the most part Debi works in watercolour, preferring that medium above all others for its luminous colours and ability to convey light by means of painting many transparent washes of colour, one on top of the other, building up a kind of ‘glow’. She says “I’ve never been able to work from photographs, and much prefer to find my images in my imagination and memory. I’m hugely inspired by watching and listening to my tribe of children, and most of what I do is based on and around their lives and dreams and hopes.�
Debi has a purpose-built studio in her back garden, having tried, unsuccessfully, to combine working on the kitchen table with raising a family! She needs the silence and lack of distractions in this private place in order to concentrate on what she is doing.
In the tiny amounts of spare time that she can claw back from a rather crammed life, she loves cooking and gardening, but she’s always tended to look a tad embarrassed if asked what her hobbies are, “since I don’t appear to have any...�
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