'The scent and the look of a bowl of ripe quinces in the house in autumn are enough to make you believe that the golden fruit Earth gave to Hera and Zeus when they were married was quince and not apple'
ALICE TAIT
Location Bath, UK
Art Medium Pencil, dip pens, coloured ink, brushes, digital
Qualifications BA (1st class hons) Graphic Design, Bath Spa University, 2002
Awards AOI Images, Silver award (in Books category) for Nigel Slater's Real Cooking, 2007
Folio Publications Good Things by Jane Grigson (2009)
Other Publications Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend (Penguin); Cook with Jamie (Penguin); The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (Orion); weekly illustrator for Matthew Engel in Financial Times weekend magazine, 2007–8; Vogue
Exhibitions Artwork currently on sale in Habitat, and is about to be used throughout the UK in Waitrose cafés as wallpaper
Statement Alice Tait is an illustrator who loves to draw. She can be found in her West Country studios buried in old type books, stacks of paper and jars of coloured ink
Website www.alicetait.com
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