Gabby Cosco

When I was eight, I used to spend hours in my room, dreaming away the hours of the day, coming up with story ideas and re-plotting the endings to my favourite ones. The best days of my childhood included a new story idea, a fresh pack of printing paper and a brand new set of brightly coloured markers. I drew out fairies in forests each with their own unique powers and gifts, princesses and their princes and the fairy tale adventured they went on together in life and love, bank robbing clowns and the mayhem they caused all whilst parading as a team of birthday party entertainers, pre-teen beauties and the trial and tribulations of their complicated romantic lives, super heroes with girlfriends who would get frustrated with them because they were always out too late fighting crime, modern tales of kick ass female leads in cityscapes trying to solve the latest murder mystery. Okay, that one might have been when I was much older.

The point is, I have a veracious passion for stories and have since I was a little girl. Stories connect us, stories drive us and stories tell us so much about who we are as human beings and mere mortals on this tiny blue dot in this vast galaxy and universe.

I love stories. I love reading them. I love watching them. I love listening to them. They inspire me, fill me up, hype me up, get all my creative juices flowing and make me want to contribute awesome stories and artwork to the world, whether they be my own or my client’s.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”- Pablo Picasso

I consider myself very fortunate that I get to do for a living what I did in my room as a child. Being an artist and children’s book illustrator is something I am highly passionate about and find incredibly rewarding. It is so amazing to me that I get paid to add that extra layer of life to a story through artwork and images and create books that will spark reader’s imaginations, the way the so many stories sparked mine.

If you would like to know more about me or would like to contact me for potential story artwork creation opportunities please email me @ [email protected] and I would love to chat with you.