Alexis Deacon Gallery

Alexis Deacon graduated in 2001 with a first class honours degree in Illustration from the University of Brighton. Before graduating he was awarded the Burt Brill and Cardens award for the second best degree show at his University in 2000.

The urge to draw has been with Alexis as long as he can remember, ‘I’ve probably drawn compulsively since the age of 3 or 4’. Whenever he got bored playing with a particular toy as a child, rather than put it down and pick up something else as most kids would do he’d put the toy down and pick up a sketchbook to carry the game on through pictures on paper. Alexis’ favourite children’s books are Little Nemo by Winsor McCay and Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. He also greatly admires the work of author/illustrators William Steig, Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs and John Burningham.

Alexis Deacon is one of Booktrust's Best New Illustrators 2008.