What we all share in common, and how we grow together, is the theme of Bridget’s previous book,  YOU, ME and OUR WHOLE WIDE WORLD, now in paperback  with Walker Books UK.  Selected by Candy Gourlay as her author’s choice of Best Book of the year for Booktrust :  ‘a tonic for a generation …. Bridget Marzo builds a kind, all embracing world with every stroke of her brush, shining a bright light filled with hope. This is a book to treasure.’

First published by Walker Books UK, July 2022

 

PASt EVENTS

for more details of what Bridget offers,  go to the  Events Page 

 

Bridget at the Big Family Art Event in Half Moon theatre, London, December 2023

‘You, Me & Our Whole Wide World’ chosen by Half Moon theatre from the exhibition

Bridget offers other events likes this for primary school classes, family events in libraries, museums and festivals across the world including creative story making, colour and character making workshops She  works with individual mentoring and all sizes of groups –  her record was getting around 1000 children and teachers  drawing at the Beijing Bookworm Festival in 2016.

Thanks to her years teaching  illustration and colour theory at Parsons Paris School of Design, and her former role as the first International Illustrator advisor for SCBWI, The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators,  she has also had long experience of giving talks and mentoring aspiring picture book makers.   For more more details visit  Events

HIGHlightS

Bridget was part of an amazing  line up of authors and illustrators for the Stepping into Stories festival in Herne Hill,  London

Here’s a report about her work and meetings at  South Ken Kids Festival in 2022 .  As she’s written and illustrated books for France as well as the UK she’s been lucky to have been invited to  several SKKF festivals, doing primary school visits, public workshops and doing live drawing on stage.

During the covid lockdown  Bridget co-ran a series of story making workshops for the Mini Shout! virtual festival with the fab CWISL team of  Children’s Writers and Illustrators for Stories and Literacy

Over the years Bridget has participated in many discussions and given talks about the craft and career of children’s book illustration…

This one was online alongside the brilliant US author-illustrators Barbara McClintock, Juana Martinez-Neal and Pat Cummngs with  New York illustration students at the Pratt Institute  and Parsons New York.

Bridget’s favourite topics are about visual literacy,  Voice over Style and ‘Mice, Mothers and Others’, a popular look at how mothers and more are represented differently in  books from different countries , a talk she first gave for the AoI, the UK Association of Illustrators.

Bridget’s books have been published in many co-editions across the world from the Australia to the US, Catalonia and Spain to Japan and South Korea – and also in China…

Here is  the Chinese edition of Tiz & Ott’s Big Draw published by Citic Press, Beijing.  It’s stamped in gold with the words ‘Artistic Enlightenment Picture Book for Children’!

In 2018 Bridget was proud to be one of 45 illustrators led by Axel Scheffler contributing visions of Europe in the book Drawing Europe Together (Macmillan), and in an exhibition that toured around the UK, France, Germany and Ireland

 

Europe in a Tree ©Bridget Marzo, gouache on tinted paper in Drawing Europe Together, published by Macmillan