Lucy Rose Turner
(She/Her)
Lucy is an illustrator from the seaside city of Portsmouth, UK.
Lucy graduated with a BA in Illustration from Southampton Solent University before joining the MA in Children’s Book Illustration. She loves to illustrate expressive and unique characters, capturing their emotions, relationships and playful interactions within an exciting environment.
Lucy’s inspiration to create stories and characters that feature and highlight disability comes from her relationship with her older sister Catherine, who has Down Syndrome. She wrote and illustrated three picturebooks that all centre around different disabilities, ranging from narratives depicting Down Syndrome and narratives that simply include disabled characters as the protagonist.
Moving forward in her work she hopes to explore and create more stories and characters that focus on diversity and inclusivity and seeing more authentic portrayals and representation of disabled people in picturebooks.
Website: www.lucyroseillustrations.co.uk
Instagram: @lucyroseillustrations
Email: lucyroseillustrations@gmail.com
The Missing Donkey
Whilst helping out at her grandpa’s rescue sanctuary, a donkey suddenly goes missing overnight.
My Little Sister has Down Syndrome
Catherine is going to have a new baby sister called Jane who has Down Syndrome. She is told she will be different but she finds out she is just like her and just needs a little extra help.
Gemma The Therapy Dog
Gemma, a three legged rescue dog, takes her test to become a therapy dog by helping many people of different ages and disabilities.
