Shirley Hughes OBE

Signed limited edition prints from one of the best-loved and most innovative creators of books for young children.  Her last remaining signed prints available at Art of Illustration.

Shirley Hughes wrote and illustrated over 50 books and sold more than eleven million copies, won major awards and created some of the most enduring characters of children’s literature., including Alfie and Annie Rose. She died in 2022 at the age of 95

The standard framing is double-mounted in a high-quality one-inch square plain oak, protected with clear wax. 

More on Shirley Hughes

She received the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished services to children’s literature, was awarded an OBE in 1999 and received the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal, twice.

Born and raised in West Kirby, a quiet seaside town on the Wirral, Shirley Hughes spent her wartime childhood drawing, painting and making up stories with her two sisters. Encouraged and inspired by visits to Liverpool’s magnificent Walker Art Gallery, Shirley developed a lifelong interest in ‘narrative painting’, or pictures that tell stories. This led to a year at Liverpool Art School studying fashion and costume design followed by fine art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. She soon settled in Notting Hill developing her distinctive graphic style using pen and ink, watercolour and gouache with which she infuses ordinary domestic scenes with a mixture of cosiness and magic.

Shirley Hughes died on 25th February 2022 at the age of 94.