Graphic Designers

Kura Carpenter Design: Kura is a graphic designer based in Dunedin, available for Book Cover design. She has worked with authors all over the world and specialises in photo-manipulation. She particularly enjoys redesigning covers, so if you have a book cover that’s not doing its job: to make your writing shine, then please talk to her.

Driftwood Design: Kate Adams is a freelance graphic designer, specialising in book design (cover and formatting), for both print and digital media.

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Illustrators

Angela “LemurKat” Oliver offers hand-drawn illustrations in her whimsical and unique style. She is open for commissions of book covers and book interior illustrations in colour or black and white. Her specialities are animals, both mythical and real, and natural scenes.

Yulia Potts  lives in Christchurch. She is a mother of two beautiful daughters and Pippi the basset hound.  As a little girl she loved making houses for fairies out of flowers in her Nana’s garden. Now, she creates imaginary worlds through her artwork helping the fairies “come to life” for children. Most of her work is done in the “old fashioned” way with watercolours and pencils. The beautiful nature of New Zealand is the great source of inspiration.

Anna McKay is a feminist artist living in Christchurch. Her digital creations focus on the exploration of women and gender, using colour, composition and emotion to express ideas. Anna can do both realistic interpretations of people, adding symbolism and iconography to express ideas, as well as creating more abstract pieces that focus on representing an emotion or energy. Her work is vibrant as well as being stark at times; it has high impact and easily stands out from the crowd

Mandy Palmer is a self taught artist from Waikuku, North Canterbury. She works full time as an artist and enjoys every aspect of art.

 Mandy enjoys working with pencil, Ink or painting with acrylics – Mandy has a great eye for detail, as seen in her highly detailed figurative studies. Since 2011 she has been an exhibiting member of the Waikuku Artists Incorporated. Mandy’s works can be found in private collections both throughout New Zealand and internationally.