Influenced - Childhood Favourites

What shaped Momo's work

Hello, fellow (picture)book lovers!

Social media is a strange place. If you don’t see someone constantly posting updates, you think they are not doing much. I hate that because in most cases that’s not true. It’s very true for picture book makers as it often takes about a year from delivering the final artwork to the publication. For example, I finished all the artwork for my new book in April this year but it won’t come out until next May so I can’t share anything new for a while... But I love sharing things and writing newsletters so I’ve been thinking what I should do...

An inspiration came to me after I went to see the Young Artists’ Summer Show 23 at Royal Academy of Arts. (I’ll write about it in this month’s recap post.) The visit got me think about “inspiration”, “influence”, “originality” and all that jazz.

Art never gets born in a vacuum. We artist are at the mercy of inspirations…