Cliff Wright

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Cliff Wright (Newhaven, October 24, 1963) is an artist, book illustrator, and advertising artist.

He has illustrated many books - specializing in animal illustrations and children's books, especially the second and third books in the Harry Potter series - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban , and The Wind in the Willows .

He has also been an artist in advertising campaigns for many major organizations and companies - including Greenpeace and IKEA. He has illustrated Gerald Durrell's series of Puppy series of books, which was ordered by Beanie Baby producer Andrex. He has designed many posters and cards, and is famous for his illustrations of bears and badgers for children.

Wright is an active activist for animal rights with International Animal Rescue, and has participated in many signings and book auctions to raise money to help the dancing bears in India.

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Wright was born in Newhaven, England in 1963. He graduated from Brighton College of Art in 1986. Wright developed watercolors and children's books based on wildlife in the early phases of his career. In 1989, he published a self-written and illustrated picture book for children titled "When the World Sleeps" (Hutchinson). It was runner-up in the Mother Goose Award competition, 1989-1990. He follows this by two very successful illustration projects - "Crumbs!" (Hutchinson, 1990) and Tanglewood Troll (Gollancz, 1993).

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Illustration Harry Potter

Bloomsbury approached Cliff Wright to illustrate the cover of the first English edition of Harry Potter's second book. The cover illustration for the first book was drawn by Thomas Taylor, a young artist from a college. The popularity of the first book decided on Bloomsbury to choose a more experienced illustrator, and therefore Cliff Wright was elected. Wright is an obvious choice for the third Harry Potter book cover illustrator as well.

Wright is the first to illustrate the following concepts and characters of Harry Potter:

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998):

• The owl is the hut
• Weasleys' Ford Anglia
• School of Magic and Magic of Hogwarts

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999):

• Buckbeak hippogriff
• Sirius Black in the form of his dog

Wright retains the rights to the illustrations. He refused to portray the fourth Harry Potter book after Bloomsbury lost his original front and back artwork to Harry Potter and the Azkaban Prisoners. The enormous dark market of Harry Potter fandom has been rumored to be the cause of that loss. He also sued Bloomsbury for offering inadequate compensation.

Original artwork for Harry Potter's second book and Chamber of Secrets continued the auction at Christie's in 2001 but failed to meet the reserve price of Ã, Â £ 30,000. This work has been acquired by investor Luke Heron on behalf of the investment illustration company, Storyboard Assets Plc, for an undisclosed amount. The original art for the first book raised Ã, Â £ 85,000 at an auction.

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Harry Potter's Post Works

Cliff Wright conducts innovative drawing workshops every year, titled The Art of Seeing . Wright has illustrated many books for publishers from Ladybird Books and Oxford University Press, in the 1990s and 2000s. He also wrote and illustrated the book series "Little Bear" from Templar Publishing .

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Bibliography

• When The Sleeping World , (Hutchinson, 1989)
• Crumb! (Hutchinson, 1990)
• The Explorers , (Hutchinson, 1992)
• Tanglewood Troll (Gollancz, 1993)
• Puppy Tales (written by Gerald Durrell), (Andrex, 1993)
• The Wind in the Willows (written by Kenneth Grahame), (Ladybird Books, 1994)
• The Flying Squirrel and Other Stories from the Woodlands (written by Frances Ball), (Peter Lowe, 1995)
• A Treasury of Classic Stories (written by E. Nesbit et al., illustrated by George Buchanan and David Barnett), (Ladybird Books, 1995)
• The Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 1-9: Rhymes and Analogy: Rhymes Story , (by Roderick Hunt et al., illustrated by Alex Brychta), (Oxford University Press, 1996) (Award winner TES for educational books)
• Henry Kites (written by Miriam Moss, Cliff Wright), (Hazar Publishing, 1996)
• This Way, Little Badger (written by Phil McMylor), (Ladybird Books, 1996)
• The Star That Fell (by Karen Hayles), (Ladybird Books, 1996)
• Sasha and Wolfcub (written by Ann Jungman), (Collins, 1996)
• Windswept (written by Miriam Moss, Cliff Wright), (Hazar Publishing, 1997)
• Are We Almost There? (written by Joan Stimson), (Ladybird Books, 1998)
• Peter and the Wolf (written by Sergei Prokofiev, retold by Nicola Baxter), (Ladybird Books, 1999)
• Good Day, Bad Day (written by Kathryn White), (Oxford University Press, 2000)
• DK Share-Story: Are You Spring? (written by Caroline Pitcher), (Dorling Kindersley, 2000)
• When They Fight (written by Kathryn White), (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• My wish is for you (by AdÃÆ'¨le Geras), (Piccadilly Press, 2002)
• Bear Series : Bears and Kites , Three Bears , Bears and Balls (Templar Publishing, 2005)

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References

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External links

• The artist's official site

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