Carson ellis illustrations

It's World Book Day tomorrow and following on from my last post on the fabulous John Rylands Library it seemed like a good time to take a look at our new favourite book here - Carson Ellis's Home. The fabulous book takes us on a journey through the many different types of homes from houses in the country, flats in the city, homes on buses, boats and even a shoe. At the end we find the artist herself in her studio looking at the objects which inspired the book. The illustrations are beautiful…

Meloy and Ellis have collaborated on three books in "The Wildwood Chronicles" series and Ellis has done much of the artwork for the Decemberists.

Carson Ellis has a compelling story to tell in more ways than one. She's been a "hot dog vendor in California, a chairlift operator in Vermont, and an artist's model in Montana." Nowadays she's happy to be an illustrator based in Oregon, and what an illustrator she is! Carson received the Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators in 2010, and has also provided artworks for not just two, or three, but FOUR New York Times bestsellers. So, it seems we have quite some talent here and this…

Spurred on by her success with the Shrinking of Treehorn in the early 1970s Florence Parry Heide sought to create a new story for Edward Gorey to illustrate. It took that books central idea and pus…

"Feels like reading a love story that doesn't quite know it's a love story yet, and a success story that doesn't know it's made it." --Emma Straub, New York Times-bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow Award-winning, beloved children's book author and illustrator Carson Ellis makes a stunning adult debut with an illustrated memoir that evocatively captures a specific cultural moment of the early 2000s and in her journey as an artist. In January 2001, the young artist Carson Ellis moved…

Carson Ellis, illustrator // “We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain.” ― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“So the Shortest Day came and the year died” This is a picture book rebirth of a 1974 poem originally written by Dark is Rising author Susan Cooper for the annual Christmas Revel shows,…

The Shortest Day – R. MICHELSON GALLERIES

Home, is the long awaited first solo title by Carson Ellis, the American illustrator and co-creator of the Wildwood books. It’s a subject that’s close to her heart – writing on th…