Hello! My name is Emma Carlisle, I’m an author, illustrator and picture book maker based in Devon, UK.

After graduating from the MA Children's Book Illustration course at Cambridge School of Art in 2014, I lectured for seven years at Plymouth University, where I focused my teaching on children's books and storytelling.

In 2014 I was Highly Commended for the Macmillan Book Prize and was nominated for several awards, including the Kate Greenaway and the Klaus Flugge Prize.

In 2022, I returned to picture books with a new, developed visual language, and my book What Do You See When You Look At A Tree? won the Award of Excellence – Literature for Children from the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.

I now teach primarily online on Patreon, which you can find more about here.

In 2024 I started exploring printmaking and fell back in love with screen printing. In 2026 my print “Follow Me”, was accepted into the Royal Academy Summer Show.

Nature plays an important role in my work, and I'm currently developing new ideas, screen prints and fiction picture books.

If you’d like to work together on a picture book project, please contact my agent, neil@springliterary.com

If you’d like to work together on anything else, please do get in touch illustration @ emmacarlisle.com