Anna Wilson Studio

Anna Wilson Studio I am an illustrator and designer currently mostly making childrens books!

I am is inspired by people and places, love storms and snow and am happiest running in the mountains, drawing in the streets, or creating atmospheric worlds.

Exciting day today as the first book that I’ve illustrated that is actually published in my home country, Australia, is ...
04/08/2026

Exciting day today as the first book that I’ve illustrated that is actually published in my home country, Australia, is out in the world! It is a story of ice and snow written by the wonderful Angie Cui (aka Yanting Cui) 崔彦婷 (pronounced as Tsui) - beautiful piece based on memories of time shared with a beloved grandfather in her childhood, and published by a very lovely team at UQP

When I was asked to do this book I couldn’t help but say yes as it is set in northern China which just happened to be the first place I ever saw the world freeze. In 2005 I lived in northern China for a year and couldn’t believe my Australian eyes when one morning I woke and everything had completely frozen. The canals were frozen and the lakes were solid. I could slide everywhere. Icicles hung from buildings. My eyelashes froze. And people dug holes in the frozen water to swim with someone constantly sweeping the top of the water to stop it refreezing while they were in there. It felt like magic.

And from this moment on I have chased the cold. I have tried to spend as much time as I can living in places where the world gets covered in white and winter brings a deep freeze. So I was delighted to celebrate this book that brings such joy to a wintery world.

Here are some favourite spreads and details from this book, as well as a photo of a fox in northern Japan that I took in the depths of winter. It just sat and stared at me and I used this as inspiration for the fox character that I decided to add to this story. And one of me immersed in wintery happiness on the Baltic Sea!

This book is out today at bookstores across Australia!

I’m down in Cornwall at the moment waiting for a home in Edinburgh… and in addition to waiting am also working and runni...
01/06/2026

I’m down in Cornwall at the moment waiting for a home in Edinburgh… and in addition to waiting am also working and running and sometimes drawing the sea. There has been rain, and wind, and sun, and even a wildly warm week… and I have been feeling so lucky to get this time, with family amidst a ridiculous amount of flowers and lambs and seals and clifftops and the beautiful turquoise or sometimes green Cornish sea! I think I could draw the sea forever and never quite get it right…it’s also different every time I look at it, and which keeps it always being such a drawing delight.

It’s hard to describe the wonder and beauty and intensity of the days spent in Bologna for the children’s book fair. The...
18/04/2026

It’s hard to describe the wonder and beauty and intensity of the days spent in Bologna for the children’s book fair. There’s really nothing like it - the joy of being surrounded by an incredible city, friends from everywhere, a whole world (literally) of children’s books, and so many dreams and possibilities all swirling in one place. What an exhausting delight! Makes the world feel like an utterly wonderful place, which is so needed.

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