About Lorna

Lorna is a Somerset based Illustrator with over 20 years industry experience. She is also Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Graphic Media and Communication programme at University Centre, Somerset in Taunton. Her past clients include BBC Magazines, Woodmansterne, Campaign, Elle Decoration and Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton.

Lorna is inspired by mid century art and design and the work of Saul Bass, Andre Francois, Miroslav Sasek and Raymond Savignac. Although Lorna’s work does not draw on their idiosyncratic styles, she is influenced by the expression in shape and line and how it can connect an audience. Lorna works in both analogue and digital methods, with collage a particular favourite.

Lorna is also in her final year of PhD study at the University of Portsmouth where she is exploring the British Illustrated Cookbook and the interplay between author and illustrator. Her research has largely focused on post-war cookbooks with focus on the illustrators John Minton, Juliet Renny and Len Deighton.