Mark Oliver is an award winning illustrator and highly innovative artist, with a strong pedigree of museum and art gallery exhibitions. Mark has written and illustrated various books with publishers such as Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Oxford University Press, Scholastic, Egmont, Hodder & Stoughton, and Little Tiger Press. He has twice won the Stockport Children’s Prize in 2006 & 2011, he was longlisted for the Greenaway Medal in 2011, he won the Gold Award in the Transport for London Poster Awards in 2007, and was Runner-up in the Avensis Prize in 2003. In 2021 Mark was a finalist in the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year.