EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 9 © 2014 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

41 Miss Led As outlets for illustration change, we meet an illustrator who is literally getting her art out and about. It was six years ago that Joanna Henly picked up a gauntlet that was to provide the catalyst to creating some of the most exciting and unpredictable artwork seen in recent times. Some eight years previously she had completed a Fine Art degree and left college feeling uncertain where her future lay and whether she could build a career out of her lifelong love of drawing. Leaving Portsmouth University with a degree in Visual Studies she came out, as she says, feeling; “disillusioned, ABOVE: ‘Born Fighter Topaz’, a private commission that became a hugely popular print. LEFT: ‘Shiv’, Miss Led’s painting was a definite head turner when it was hung at the Saatchi Gallery in 2013 following a “live art” event sponsored by Liquitex Artist Materials and Subism Collective