Charlotte Durance

Charlotte Durance is an author and illustrator who lives in East Anglia. She enjoys using humour, colour, shape and texture in her work. Charlotte studied English Literature and Film & Drama and this has inspired a love of composition and sequence. Play is an important part of Charlotte’s practice, and she finds inspiration through experiments with mixed media, printmaking and collage. She is never without a sketchbook and enjoys capturing everyday life.

In 2023, Charlotte won the Picture This! competition. She was awarded the Batsford Prize for Children’s Illustration and a Communication Arts Award for Illustration in 2024. Charlotte was a finalist in the 61st and 62nd edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition.

Charlotte graduated in 2025 with a distinction from the MA Children’s Book Illustration course at Cambridge School of Art.