Solia, Darcy (Personal Name)

Aunt Milly's magical tree, 2006 cover (illustrated by Darcy Solia)

little island press website, Nov. 3, 2021 (Darcy Solia is an illustrator and a Visual Arts teacher working in primary school education. Growing up in Wellington, Darcy studied at Massey University School of Design and Victoria University's Faculty of Education. After graduating with a Degree in Visual Communication in Design, he worked as a freelance illustrator; mainly working on children's books. Darcy has done a number of illustrations for book publishers from New Zealand to the United States, before becoming a Visual Arts teacher. As a full time teacher, Darcy also manages to find enough time to work on a number of illustration projects.)