Grizelda Holderness
Grizelda Holderness was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1953. She came to England in 1972, when she was 19. She attended the Bristol School of Art from 1972 to 1973 and the Central School of Art and Design in London from 1973 to 1976.
She began taking free-lance illustration work and has designed book jackets for publishers such as Pan, Picador, Penguin, Corgi and Dent. In 1983, she won the Pan Young Illustrator of the Year award.