Lauren O'Hara - Illustrator

Lauren O’Hara is an illustrator from the north of England. As a child she loved reading fairy tales, painting insects and listening to her grandmother’s stories. She studied art and illustration at Kingston University and then designed window displays and props for films. Lauren’s career as an illustrator began when she and her sister, Natalia, worked together on a picture book, Hortense and the Shadow. She is also the illustrator of Sophie Dahl's Madame Badobedah and Frindleswylde.

Lauren lives in a converted church in Dublin, Ireland with her partner, their cat Ida and assorted ghosts.