Morgan Fitzsimons

Morgan was born in the north of England in 1939. Drawing and painting since early childhood, her love of art was encouraged by a young art mistress at the age of 11 who urged her on to study the arts. Morgan went on to Liverpool University where she obtained an N.D.D., A.T.D. and B.A.

Morgan has lived in a variety of places including Lancashire, Shropshire, Merseyside, North Wales, London and Peterborough and has spent a good deal of time overseas. At 21 she painted in the Place de Tetre with other students and exhibited with artists along the Seine. While in France she was inspired by the woods at Fontainebleau and the palace at Versailles. In more recent years she has spent time in Africa and U.S.A.

Morgan was a teacher for twenty years and Head of Special Needs. She has a passion for knowledge and a love of books and while working as a teacher she wrote and illustrated for several publishers. Her physical disability and other problems led her to retire from teaching to concentrate on other things. Since then, she has designed and illustrated for various publishers and manufacturers. She has painted and exhibted in the UK and overseas.

Kat Jones

Kat was born in East Anglia in 1979. She has an insatiable thirst for knowledge and is an excellent researcher, having researched many projects for Morgan and others. She began working with Morgan at an early age and has an extensive knowledge of history, myth and legend. She loves books and writes fiction and poetry.

Kat has developed her skills at graphic design from necessity and enjoys combining those skills with Morgan's traditional artwork. She has traveled a great deal and lived in a variety of places around the UK and in America. She now lives in East Anglia with her husband and four children.