Hannah Sanguinetti

Profile

Hannah Sanguinetti is a doll-maker and children's author/illustrator born in Sheffield, England and living in Trieste, Italy. After studying music at Cambridge university, Hannah trained and worked as a nursery and primary school teacher before focusing on illustration and doll-making. Through a love of working with textiles, Hannah's unique and recognisable illustrations combine line drawing, paper and textile collage, knitted textures, 3D characters and even hand embroidery. This three-dimensional and sculptural approach to illustration brings an exciting sense of depth to Hannah’s work and her focus on textiles and yarn adds warmth and cosiness to her images. Hannah’s creative process is unique and draws on her years of experience with textile crafts, offering an illustrative approach that suits not only children’s illustration but a range of publishing, editorial and design projects. Hannah currently works freelance for publishers worldwide writing and illustrating picture books primarily for the 0-6 years age range, and has hosted multiple picture book events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Hannah’s published works to date include: a set of six picture books with UK educational publisher Speech Link Multimedia, a book cover for ‘Superma’ with Swiss publisher Kwasi Verlag, cover and internal illustrations for ‘È il Mio Diritto’ with Italian publisher Fulmìno Edizione. After enjoying showing her illustrations in a group exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland, Hannah had her first solo exhibition of work, ‘Start Where You Are’ in November 2024. Hannah has won the Moniack Mhor Writing for Children award, the Margaret Carey Scholarship for Illustration and the SCBWI British Isles Pitch Competition.