LOT 37

SAND AND SUN
by Jennifer Horn

Description

This original double-page spread illustration appears in the picture book "Juniper's Painting" (by Catherine Bauer, Wombat Books 2025), where Juniper is adding to her painting the sun and people walking along the sand. It is how she wishes the weather outside was, as opposed to the rainy blustery day it actually is. I experimented with inserting the painter into the painted here, making Juniper part of her colourful artwork but still from the monochromatic ‘real world’ where the tone is bleak and grey. Also trying to draw like a 5-year-old is always fun.

Watercolour and pen liner on A3 hot pressed paper

Illustrator Bio

​Jennifer Horn is a Brisbane-based illustrator and children’s writer. She has illustrated for Wombat Books’ junior fiction Skippy Blackfeet by Rebecca Fraser as well as picture book Juniper’s Painting by Catherine Bauer. Her fairytale debut picture book The Precious Plum was shortlisted for the 2022 Little Pink Dog’s Authorstrator Prize. She illustrated the cover of Anthology Angels’ children’s fundraising anthology of 2021, Once Upon a Whoops!: Fractured Fairytales and Ridiculous Rhymes and her short stories have appeared in each of these annual publications since 2018. Two Young Adult short stories, Faulty Connection and What Aunt Maud Achieved, have been published in Rhiza Edge’s dystopian and sci-fi anthologies, Crossed Spaces and Stepping Sideways, respectively. She was awarded Second Place in the Published Illustrators category for her illustration On The Move at the 2023 CYA Conference. 

With a background in Architecture, Jen draws on her love of stories and adventure to create whimsical illustrations in a Quentin-Blake-inspired squiggle style. She co-hosts the Book Review program on local community station Reading Radio, where she enjoys reading books ‘with all the voices’.  She has also been part of Art Department teams on several Brisbane-based films, including Binge’s A Savage Christmas, Stan’s Christmas on The Farm, and Netflix’s Romance on the Menu.

Jennifer Horn | Illustrator – Welcome to a world of Whimsical Storytelling