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Wayne Anderson.

Illustrator · United Kingdom · b. 1946

Wayne Anderson: British illustrator behind Helen Ward's The Tin Forest — meticulous, painterly, atmospheric literary picture-book illustration for ages 5–10.

Wayne Anderson is a British illustrator born in 1946, best known to UK children's-book readers as the visual partner on Helen Ward's The Tin Forest, a quietly powerful environmental picture book about an old man transforming a junk-strewn landscape, and on a range of other literary picture books and book covers. Anderson's style is meticulous, painterly and atmospheric, in the British classical-illustration tradition. A reliable contemporary literary-picture-book illustrator for ages 5–10 in the gallery-art register.