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"I feel incredibly supported by the agency and truly appreciate the smooth communication and organisation between us."

As a children’s book publisher, we take great pride on the quality of our products. With that in mind, we only work with the most talented professionals, which is why we have consistently partnered with Beehive Illustration over the past two years. Beehive’s illustrators have the experience and creativity to help our authors truly bring their vision to life. We have worked with other illustration agencies in the past, but Beehive is our top choice due to their excellent management of projects. We look forward to continuing to work with Beehive in the future and encourage anyone looking for a gifted illustrator to consider those who work with Beehive.

“I have always enjoyed working with Beehive and their artists. They have a great range of styles and every artist I have worked with has been amazing and easy to work with. The staff at Beehive is also top notch. The communicate quickly and clearly, get contracts returned and invoices sent on time. They are my number one rep to go to when I need artists.”

Mike Phillips has done an absolutely sterling job and produced some of his best work yet for us. There are some absolutely extraordinary illustrations in this latest book. I very much hope we'll be able to work with him again on something soon!

It’s been an absolute pleasure working with Helen and with all of you at Beehive. Please do pass on our thanks to Helen. Helen has done a massive amount of work for this series and her illustrations have really brightened up our books. I’m sure the children are going to love them. Hopefully, we’ll have the opportunity to work with her again in the future.

Dusan Lakicevic did an outstanding job illustrating my book. He dutifully followed detailed art specifications and magnificently portrayed a diverse cast of characters. He also created the exciting scenes necessary to draw in and support developing readers. Having worked with dozens of illustrators in educational publishing, I’m happy to attest to Dusan’s engaging style and impressive artistic talent. He’s one of the best!

The Beehive team always go the extra mile to make sure that their artists artwork is creative and instructional. They are always there to offer advice and direction if needed. Beehive have a good eye for artists which means we’re spoilt for choice across our extensive range of publishing. The finished work is eye catching and elevates the content.

Russ Daff is a very talented illustrator. He produced fabulous artworks for a second level textbook that were true to the briefs and engaging for teenage students. He was very professional in dealing with amendments and additional artworks needed to meet proofing deadlines and never allowed a deadline to impact his creativity.

I only ever have good things to say about Beehive and your artists! You're all very easy to work with and you and the other agents, especially Christina, as she's my main contact for OUP, always do absolutely everything you can to help. Nothing is too much and artwork is on-time and to a great standard. I have every confidence in you and your artists and highly recommend you to anyone I work with or for.

Experience with Beehive on this recent project with Claudio was excellent as always - good and prompt communication from Beehive, including the contractual signing process we have to go through and Claudio followed the briefs and then provided the changes and options requested quickly.

My experience working with Beehive has always been excellent. Communication is always prompt and clear and you are very helpful with any queries or issues regarding illustration commissioning. 😊

Beehive are our go to artist agency! They are like minded in their approach to providing a client focused service that aims to match the best illustrators to the job requirements. They are unflappable in their nature, kind and caring in their approach and no matter how crazy the job we send them, they somehow always manage to deliver. We would be lost without the team helping us to source artwork and we see them as imperative partners to the success of emc design and the work we do for educational organisations.

"Working with Beehive is always a pleasure! Fantastic artists, great communication and always on schedule. I look forward to working with Beehive and their lovely artists again in the future."

"Usually, the work of an illustrator is something lonely, but with Beehive Illustration this changes, I feel protected and confident, because I'm working with a professional and wonderful team, working with the bees is one of the best things that has happened to me in the recent years!"

Working with Beehive Illustration has been an absolute pleasure! They moved mountains to help me illustrate my children's book. Contact with the illustrator (Mike Phillips) has been smooth and always very quick. But most importantly, Mike and the agency made everything possible - Mike is supremely talented and he brought all the characters to life in a way that made the magic happen for everyone. We are already putting in place plans for book two.

Working with Beehive Illustration has been a dream. One of the best parts of creating the Shinoy and the Chaos Crew series has been seeing the staggering artwork develop into stunning final pieces that have always exceeded my hopes and expectations. It has been a huge pleasure working with such a talented, professional and friendly team.

I'm always impressed by the level of care Beehive take of the jobs I commission with their artists. Their professionalism, attention to detail, fairness and unflappable good humour in the face of some pretty apocalyptic briefing endeavours never ceases to astonish. You know that a job placed with Beehive will go as smoothly as possible.

Friendly, professional and always a pleasure to work with the Beehive team. Their artists produce fantastic artwork and never let us down!

My first venture into writing Children's illustrated books came to a grinding halt until I was directed by a friend to Beehive Illustration. Through Beehive, Rupert Van Wyk managed to illustrate 3 books absolutely beautifully. To my chagrin, the first comment from most readers is 'what beautiful illustrations" - never mind about the author!

Working with the Beehive team over the last 12 years has been an absolute pleasure. Not only with individual attention to project handling, but ‘can-do’ attitude and approachability, make working on projects an easy and happy teamwork experience