Papillote Press Featured Artist
Susanne Heitz
Illustrator of Good Night My Sweet Island
Susanne Heitz was born in Germany but has spent much of her life in the Caribbean. Trained at the Hochschule for Fine Art and Design in Hannover, Germany, her love of nature and vibrant colours are key elements in her work.
Illustrators & artists
Caroline Binch
Caroline Binch is an award-winning children’s illustrator and author who is probably best known for her illustrations for Amazing Grace, which has become an international best-seller. Her book Hue Boy (written by Rita Phillips Mitchell) won the Smarties Gold Award in 1993 and Gregory Cool, which she wrote and illustrated, was highly commended for the Kate Greenaway medal. Look Back! (written by Trish Cooke) was nominated for the Kate Greenaway medal in 2012. Caroline was born in Manchester but now lives by the sea in Cornwall.
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Andy Dark
Andy Dark is the designer for the Papillote Press list. He started work as a designer on the Sunday Times magazine in 1968, and designed his first book for Pluto Press in 1971. As a partner in a graphic design studio ‘Graphics International’, he designed books, magazines, film titles, theatre posters, and exhibitions. He moved to Wales in 1990 and since then has worked in different areas of design, such as film and television and on a major educational project for the Arts Council of Wales. He is also a designer and consultant for the monthly Welsh language magazine, Barn.
Earl Etienne
The best known of Dominica’s artists, both locally and internationally, Earl Etienne, whose work is on the covers of Love for an Island and Praise Songs, died in February 2022, aged 64. He was born in Roseau and won an OAS fellowship to study at the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica. Back home in Dominica, he worked as a cultural officer with the Ministry of Culture while painting and mentoring a new generation of Dominican artists. Known for his generosity of spirit, throughout his career, he continued to capture, in a rich variety of styles, the culture, nature and spirit of Dominica.
Marie Frederick
Marie Frederick is the illustrator of the cover of A Scream in the Shadows, the crime novel from St Lucia. Her painting of a “ti kai” and its surrounding yard is also on the cover of Papillote Press’ very first title, The Gardens of Dominica. Born in Deauville, France, Marie studied art in Rouen and Paris before travelling through Europe and North Africa. In 1984 she arrived in Dominica where she has lived ever since. She works in a variety of mediums and finds inspiration in the rhythms of Dominica’s seductive environments – the old shingle homes, rum shops, full moon in the bush and the intensity of a natural world that is larger than life.
Facebook: Marie Bouvet Frederick
Susanne Heitz
Susanne Heitz was born in Germany but has spent much of her life in the Caribbean. Trained at the Hochschule for Fine Art and Design in Hannover, Germany, her love of nature and vibrant colours are key elements in her work. She lives in Dominica, Barbados and Germany.
She illustrated the children’s picture book Good Night My Sweet Island.
Lowell Royer
Lowell Royer is a visual communicator represented by his artist name OMtNI (silent ‘t’). With a craving for novelty, he enjoys working on various surfaces like paper, canvas, wood, skin and even concrete. Born in Dominica, he studied Illustration at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, in Jamaica, which showed him the ways of visual storytelling. While a student he created the cover for the Young Adult novel Abraham’s Treasure.
Marica Honychurch
Marica Honychurch is a photographer and videographer from Dominica. After living abroad, she has returned to her roots working in travel, portrait and documentary. She has been published in international magazines and online publications as well as exhibiting her work around the Caribbean.
She photography is used in Still Standing, The Ti Kais of Dominica.
Kelo Royer
Kelo Royer, whose work is on the cover of It Falls into Place, is a self-taught Dominican artist. Born in 1953, in Roseau, he was determined to paint since boyhood. Kelo is a Rastafarian and believes that his work is stimulated by his way of life and “the wonders that the creator has given us.”
