Jason Chapman
| Titles: | One Kiss, One Hug, Stan And Mabel |
| Category: | Illustrators |
| Agent: | Caroline Walsh |
Jason was born in Cambridge, grew up in Yorkshire and studied at Bradford and Camberwell Colleges of Art. During his study, he had a variety of jobs to enable him to pursue his illustration career, including balloon seller, road sweeper, and cattery assistant!
Jason is Battersea Dogs & Cats Home’s ‘official illustrator’ and works regularly with NSPCC and Father Christmas on their hugely successful 'Letters From Santa' campaign.
Jason’s characters have been animated (often by himself) for educational DVDs and promotional/web use. His sense of composition, pace of story and knowledge of animation has recently led to visual development work with Ragdoll Productions Ltd.
Becoming a father inspired a passion for Jason to develop his own children’s books. His debut picture book, Ted, Bo and Diz (Little Tiger Press) was shortlisted for the Best Emerging Illustrator award at the 2007 Booktrust Early Years Awards.
Five Little Ducks (Simon & Schuster) was shortlisted for the Baby Book Award at the 2009 Booktrust Early Years Awards.
Templar published Stan and Mabel in 2011, and Jason is working on a follow-up. In the meantime, he illustrated One Kiss, One Hug for Random House, published early 2012.
He lives with his wife, son, two daughters and numerous pets in Devon.
