Catching up with past posts and this one this is fascinating about the choices we make, however subconsciously, as artists and illustrators when representing reality. What conditions them? Is it about who it’s for ? And that word ‘taste’ - another can o’ worms …familiar preoccupations of mine over my own, ahem, variegated children's book career. I’m a big fan of Lizzy Stewart's graphic novel ‘Alison’ - was hooked when I saw how the painterly cover contrasted intriguingly with the atmospheric, credible world of her brilliantly succinct drawing.