Charlie Mackesy began sharing conversations between the boy, the
mole, the fox and the horse on his social media channels in early
2018. He published The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in late
2019 and the book has since brought comfort and joy to over seven
million readers worldwide.
After two years of collaborative work, in 2022, the short film
adaptation of the book will be released alongside The Book of the
Film.
Charlie collaborates with a number of charities, including Comic
Relief--he created the iconic "Love Wins" t-shirt--as well as the
NHS, Choose Love, WWF and The Samaritans. During the pandemic he
donated prints, books, drew on hospital walls, and posted messages
of support to NHS workers, which he continues.
Charlie began his career as a cartoonist for The Spectator and a
book illustrator for Oxford University Press. He spent time in
America as a portrait painter and ran art therapy workshops for
Alzheimer's sufferers and Holocaust survivors. He lived and painted
in South Africa, and collaborated with Nelson Mandela on a
lithograph project, "The Unity Series." And worked with Richard
Curtis on the set of Love Actually to create a set of drawings to
be auctioned for Comic Relief. Away from art, Charlie co-runs a
social enterprise, Mama Buci in Zambia. His work features in books,
private collections and public spaces, including Highgate Cemetery
in London, in hospitals, prisons, churches, and university colleges
around the UK, and in women's safe houses around the world.
He lives in Suffolk with his dog Barney.
Charlie Mackesy began sharing conversations between the boy, the
mole, the fox and the horse on his social media channels in early
2018. He published The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in late
2019 and the book has since brought comfort and joy to over seven
million readers worldwide.
After two years of collaborative work, in 2022, the short film
adaptation of the book will be released alongside The Book of the
Film.
Charlie collaborates with a number of charities, including Comic
Relief--he created the iconic "Love Wins" t-shirt--as well as the
NHS, Choose Love, WWF and The Samaritans. During the pandemic he
donated prints, books, drew on hospital walls, and posted messages
of support to NHS workers, which he continues.
Charlie began his career as a cartoonist for The Spectator and a
book illustrator for Oxford University Press. He spent time in
America as a portrait painter and ran art therapy workshops for
Alzheimer's sufferers and Holocaust survivors. He lived and painted
in South Africa, and collaborated with Nelson Mandela on a
lithograph project, "The Unity Series." And worked with Richard
Curtis on the set of Love Actually to create a set of drawings to
be auctioned for Comic Relief. Away from art, Charlie co-runs a
social enterprise, Mama Buci in Zambia. His work features in books,
private collections and public spaces, including Highgate Cemetery
in London, in hospitals, prisons, churches, and university colleges
around the UK, and in women's safe houses around the world.
He lives in Suffolk with his dog Barney.
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