Sophie Windham

Sophie was brought up in the bucolic Gloucestershire countryside, which inspired her life long love of nature. She comes from a family of artists, including her mother, the painter Annette de Mestre and her aunt, the painter Rachel Windham, both of whom were fundamental in her development as an artist. After training at the Byam Shaw and Chelsea Art School in London, she worked for twenty years as a children’s book illustrator and in 1997 was nominated for the Greenaway Medal. During the early years Sophie travelled extensively, living in Venezuela and Los Angeles, where she continued to work and exhibit. In 1994 she moved to the Welsh Borders with her family and for the last decade she has been exhibiting her work in Hay on Wye and London. She has works in private collections in America, Australia, Europe and Venezuela.