Books are my business: Picture book illustrator and author Paddy Donnelly

Most of the time, I illustrate other people’s stories — for every three or four I do for someone else, I do one of my own

Paddy Donnelly: 'In 2017, I started trying to get into the publishing world as an illustrator.' Picture: Michiel Devijver

Paddy Donnelly is a picture book illustrator and author. Originally from Bally-castle, Co Antrim, he is now based in Belgium.

He has been nominated twice for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration and in 2023 he won the Judges’ Special Award at the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards.