Meet the author

Grahame Baker-Smith.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom

Grahame Baker-Smith: Kate Greenaway-winning British picture-book maker behind FArTHER, Rhythm of the Rain and Glow — mixed-media, painterly, gallery-art picture books for ages 5–10.

Grahame Baker-Smith is a British author-illustrator best known for FArTHER (2010), his Kate Greenaway Medal-winning picture book about a boy whose absent father dreamed of flying, and for Rhythm of the Rain, Glow, and The Rhythm of the Rain. Baker-Smith's style is technically extraordinary, mixed-media, painterly, with strong use of pattern and texture, closer to gallery art than to standard picture-book illustration, in the company of Levi Pinfold and Shaun Tan. His stories tend to be quietly emotional and architectural rather than plot-driven. A reliable gift-shelf picture-book maker for ages 5–10, particularly for families who value art-book-quality illustration and emotional weight.