Anna Koska is a published freelance illustrator of some 25 years, specialising in fruit, vegetables and the natural world, and to date has illustrated in excess of 100 books. As well as book illustration, Anna regularly receives commissions from chefs, authors and restauranteurs for food and botanical art.
Anna works in watercolour, pen & ink, oils and, most recently, egg tempera. Her methods may vary but the joy of her artwork is constant; each piece she creates is a celebration of the fruit, vegetable, animal or plant she has captured with her inimitable flare, which has secured her place as one of the UK’s leading natural history illustrators.
For more than 20 years Anna based herself in rural Sussex, with her husband and three children. Along with her illustrating business, she grew an overly ambitious quantity of fruit and veg, and cared for three hives and a happy handful of chickens. In search of new adventures, they’ve recently uprooted and moved everyone (including the bees) to set up home in a sheltered combe just inland from the tree-lined coast of South Devon.
Anna’s companion books, From Field and Forest and From Coast and Cove, document an artist’s year in paint and pen and are published by Pavilion.