At first, I illustrated educational books for schools, (about rugby, or gardening, or how to play the saxophone). I felt as if I was visiting Willy Wonka.Įventually, I stopped working, and began illustrating full time. I got to visit the factory in Sydney and I can remember smelling the liquorice from half a suburb away as I trudged along the road from the station. A highlight was designing a label for Darrell Lea. Comic strips, greetings cards, and real-estate ads. But I still drew for fun, and I started to get illustration jobs here and there. Then I worked as a scientist at CSIRO for several years. I did well in science and maths, reasonably well in English, and quite badly in art, and I went on to study Textile Technology at university. Drawing was always more subversive and more fun. Writing was schoolwork, to be handed in and marked. I liked writing too, but in a different way. I drew in the margins of my maths homework, or made funny pictures of the teachers and passed them around the classroom. Read about how author Judith Rossell started her writing and illustrating career and the books that inspired her as a child. Fans of Stella Montgomery will be very pleased that Wakestone Hall has been released this month.
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