Emily MacKenzie is an award winning author-illustrator based in Edinburgh.

She moved to Scotland in 2001 to study Graphic Design at Edinburgh College of Art and worked as a designer for several years. In 2011 she went freelance to concentrate on illustration projects and pursue her dream of illustrating children’s books.

Her work is very much influenced by her childhood, as well as using observations of everyday scenarios.

She loves working with a mix of materials including watercolour inks, coloured pencil, brush pens and crayons, and enjoys screen printing when she can.

In 2014, whilst waiting for her first book to come out, she created a colour chart poster titled 50 Shades of Scotland, celebrating her love of the country and all the colours she associate with it.

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