Teresa Robertson

Editorial

In 1984 I asked my local authority, Haringey Council, if they could use my illustrations in their leaflets as ‘I like drawing people’. They gave me a job that day and I’ve been illustrating leaflets for local authorities, The British Council, the BBC 10 O’clock News and many other clients ever since.

Many of the jobs I have done for local authorities have involved illustrations of children with disabilities, as a sensitively drawn picture was often found to be more appropriate than photographs.

I have recently been involved with in the picture, a campaign launched by Scope and headed by Quentin Blake, calling for publishers to include more children with disabilities in their work.