Dear Vincent – A Times Book of the Year 2024

‘This book is an absolute gem, with a great understanding of its audience … Beech’s exquisite artwork is characterful and warm, conjuring up the well-known visual elements of Van Gogh’s life, from his gingery beard to his blue bedroom, and of course those majestic sunflowers, while never falling into pastiche’ - Observer
‘I adored Dear Vincent, a dazzling biography of Vincent van Gogh by Michael Bird and illustrator Ella Beech playfully told through letters to the artist’s brother’ - Imogen Carter, Observer Children’s Books of the Year
‘You’re never too early to start on art, so for the smallest art lover in your life, wrap up a copy of Dear Vincent, written by the art historian Michael Bird and joyfully illustrated by Ella Beech’ - Laura Freeman, The Times

Michael Bird is a writer, broadcaster and curator. He is the author of the bestselling children’s history of art Vincent’s Starry Night and Other Stories and his books for adults include This is Tomorrow: Twentieth Century Britain and its Artists, Artists’ Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney, and 100 Ideas that Changed Art.

Ella Beech is an artist and illustrator based in Cambridge, UK. She has a Masters in Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art, was runner up in the Picture Hooks Competition 2021 and a finalist in the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrator’s Exhibition. Ella has worked as a designer and art director in children’s publishing, and has a degree in Fine Art Painting from the Winchester School of Art.

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