Lauren Beard is a children’s book illustrator based in Manchester. She mixes digital with hand painted elements in her art work and loves drawing animals. Lauren has illustrated many books over the last ten years and is well known for her work on the twelve books in the popular Fairytale Hairdresser series, written by Abie Longstaff and published by Penguin Random House. She lives with her cat Smokey-Joe, by the woods that inspire her art.