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Angela Harding.

Illustrator · United Kingdom · b. 1960

Angela Harding: British printmaker and illustrator behind Katya Balen's October, October — atmospheric linocut and lithograph nature illustration in the Ravilious / Bawden tradition.

Angela Harding is a British printmaker and illustrator born in 1960, best known to children's-book readers as the illustrator of Katya Balen's October, October, and to the wider literary world for her nature-and-wildlife linocut and lithograph prints. Harding's style is deeply atmospheric, pattern-rich linocut printmaking, closer to mid-twentieth-century British printmaking tradition (Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden) than to contemporary picture-book illustration. A reliable visual signal of art-led, nature-themed, literary middle-grade and picture-book content for ages 5+ and adult co-readers.