Jess Racklyeft

2025 Workshop:

In this Fishy workshop, we will be reading the book Reef and learning how to draw a variety of sea creatures. Participants will also decorate and draw on their own Fishy brooch to take home.

About Jess:

Jess is a children’s book illustrator based in Melbourne. She has illustrated 35 picture books, and won several awards including a CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award (2022).

Working primarily in watercolours, she also likes to experiment with collage, digital and acrylic mediums, as well as create greeting cards, abstract paintings and work on client projects. Her studio is found by a farm in inner city Melbourne and filled to the brim with picture books and papery goods.