News

1st July 2025

Olivia wins the Carnegie Medal

Many congratulations to Olivia Lomenech Gill. On a sweltering day in London we celebrated with hundreds of children and librarians. She made a powerful speech . . . [read more]

7th May 2024

Medusa original work

Olivia Lomenech Gill produced some beautiful illustrations for Jessie Burton's retelling of the Medusa story and we now have some of the originals for . . . [read more]

9th November 2023

Olivia Lomenech Gill’s Robert Westall lecture

Olivia was invited by by the Yoto Carnegie team to give this year’s Robert Westall Memorial Lecture in collaboration with CILIP’s Youth Libraries Group. The . . . [read more]

15th July 2023

Shifting Sands

In 2022 Olivia Lomenech Gill was commissioned by English Heritage to produce a large painting to be hung in the newly-renovated museum at Lindisfarne Priory . . . [read more]

15th December 2022

Medusa at La Roche Jagu

Olivia Lomenech Gill was delighted to see Jessie Burton this week at the exhibition of Olivia’s work at La Roche Jagu in Brittany. Jessie wasn’t . . . [read more]

12th April 2022

An interview with Olivia Lomenech Gill

Now that few illustrations are produced in a traditional way it's very encouraging to see just how much Bloomsbury's publicity team have promoted Olivia's illustrations . . . [read more]

17th November 2021

The retelling of Medusa written by Jessie Burton and illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill is a triumph. Olivia has used etchings, watercolour and oil paintings . . . [read more]

17th May 2021

Camouflage snake

One of Olivia Lomenech Gill‘s etchings to be included in the retelling of Medusa, by Jessie Burton, to be published this year by Bloomsbury Children’s . . . [read more]

22nd December 2020

Water Wings

A recent piece by Olivia Lomenech Gill. . . . [read more]

15th December 2020

Olivia’s work in progress

Olivia Lomenech Gill is working on a whole book of etchings and paintings. We can’t tell you very much about it yet, but here is . . . [read more]

25th April 2020

A History of Magic, in Tokyo

How pleasing during lockdown! To have a definite date in the diary. The work of Jim Kay and Olivia Lomenech Gill will be travelling to . . . [read more]

23rd March 2020

Medusa

We are thrilled that Olivia Lomenech Gill has been commissioned by Bloomsbury to illustrate Jessie Burton’s latest YA novel. She is the perfect person to . . . [read more]