Alison Mutton earned a BA with Honors in Design from Curtin University, focusing on illustration. She specializes in children's illustration, including fairytale-style fantasy and historically-inspired illustration. She uses a variety of mediums in her work– pencil, watercolour, coloured pencil, ink, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fresco, Adobe Illustrator and Procreate. She has worked on over 100 books for ReadyEd Publications and has been illustrating picture books since 2014. She is based in Perth, Western Australia.