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Matt Ottley.

Writer & illustrator · Australia

Matt Ottley: Australian illustrator-composer behind Rebecca Young's Teacup — painterly, classical migration-and-journey picture-book art for ages 5–10.

Matt Ottley is an Australian author-illustrator and composer, best known to UK and US children's-book readers as the illustrator of Rebecca Young's Teacup, a quietly powerful picture book about migration, journey and arrival, told in painterly seascape illustration. Ottley's style is technically virtuosic, painterly and slightly classical, in the literary-picture-book / gallery-art tradition. A reliable Australian literary-picture-book illustrator for ages 5–10.