Gillian Tyler, who has died, was an award-winning artist and illustrator from Yorkshire who worked with several leading children’s authors including the former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen.
Growing up in the South Yorkshire mining community of Thurnscoe in the Dearne valley with her parents and three sisters, her talent for art was evident from an early age. At 10 her aunt Jean entered a picture of hers in the Doncaster Art Fair and to Gillian’s astonishment it won first the first prize of £5. She found encouragement, too, in her local school. “I was at primary school at a time when teachers really encouraged creativity,” she recalled.
She became a jobbing commercial illustrator until one of her long trips to London, to see Walker Books, paid off. The art director there, Amelia Edwards, spotted potential and promised to keep in touch. True to her word, in 1990 she rang Gillian and offered her a book illustration job. The book in question was The Good Little Christmas Tree which helped her career take off. Not long after, she took a call to say that Allan Ahlberg was interested in working with her.
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