Vicky Steane

Vicky Steane is a writer, illustrator and painter from the Eel Pie Island Artists collective. She has run Tyler Studios, the established picture framing gallery, for over ten years. There she creates be-spoke picture frames for the public by appointment and sells her own artwork in the gallery.

She received prestigious training in conservation picture- framing and an education in high-end gallery artwork while at John Jones of London. It was there that she framed work for The Tate Gallery, Getty Images, The Saatchi Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery, to name a few.

There she was in charge of original works by Picasso, Lowry and Damien Hurst. In 2004 Vicky was nominated for an award by the Wandsworth Youth Enterprise Center for a comic book that she wrote and illustrated to raise awareness of depression in young people. This accolade inspired her to continue writing and illustrating a further five books, three of which are part of the Little Robot Stories series.