John Winch is a well-known painter, printmaker, sculptor and ceramicist who has exhibited widely throughout Australia and overseas, with works in the National Gallery, Canberra, the Art Gallery of NSW, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
His first children’s book was One Sunday written by Libby Gleeson. John’s picture books for Scholastic Australia-The Old Man Who Loved to Sing and The Old Woman Who Loved to Read-were inspired by country life in historic Stuart Town, NSW. These picture books are characterised by loving watercolours of animals and people in rural Australia.
‘I use the long hours involved in illustration as an excuse to indulge my real passion, classical music. A double page averages out at thirty-four concertos, sixteen symphonies and three madrigals...’
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