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Yvonne Gilbert (right), 53, is a Newcastle-based illustrator and artist. Her first commission was the first album cover for Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
She has progressed to become one of the best selling British illustrators in the USA, well known for the fairytale quality of her work seen mostly in children's books. She is known in the UK for creating "the world's most beautiful stamp" for the Royal Mail in 1984.
Yvonne is currently working on a number of portrait commissions to order. "I have a studio in my home in Spital Tongues which means I don't even have to dress on a daily basis if I don't want to," she laughs. "I could work in...