Kate Baylay

Kate Baylay is a book illustrator whose dark but decorative pictures of fairy tales are inspired by the ‘Golden Age’ of illustration. Her Kay Neilson inspired drawings have been used on couture dresses for Fendi (The 90th birthday Fairytale collection), record covers and as beautiful illustrations for The Folio Society books amongst others. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen is a fairy tale first published in Denmark in 1844 and was the inspiration behind the Disney movie, Frozen.

 

Scene from The Snow Queen, a paper theatre by Kate Baylay for Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop Sketch for The Snow Queen, a paper theatre by Kate Baylay for Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop