Indigo Irvine
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Indigo Irvine
By (Author) Rhiannon Archard
Tate Publishing
Tate Publishing
1st October 2025
4th September 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Physical Properties
Hardback
32
Width 280mm, Height 260mm
Description
Indigo Irvine loves her amazing, artistic mum. She fills their lives with joy and colour with her beautiful paintings and wonderful stories.
Some days are harder than others, like when the heating runs out or when mum just can't seem to get out of bed. They get through them together with kitchen dance parties, slurpy noodles and a whole lot of painting.
But when the going gets tough can Indi and her mum still find a way to celebrate the good times
A beautifully illustrated, poignant story about the power of painting and the unbreakable bond between mother and child, proving that imagination, love and a little bit of colour can get us through the toughest of times.
Important work that showcases a single-parent family and contemporary issues of mental health, food insecurity, and the rising cost of living.
Empowering story of a positive parent-child relationship, bonding through a shared love of art and creativity.
Rhiannon was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2023. She also won an Irish Book Award in 2021 and was shortlisted in 2022.
Rhiannon has worked for notable publishers including Scholastic and Penguin Random House.
Author Bio
Rhiannon Archard is a Welsh illustrator of children's books.
She studied Illustration at Camberwell UAL and is currently based in a little market town in the beautiful Kentish countryside. Her work combines traditional and digital techniques to create her colourful and painterly illustrations. If the opportunity arises, she would play and experiment with all the media and art processes known to man; instead, she has narrowed it down to a few favourites: Gouache, watercolour, colour pencils, lino printing and ceramics.
Rhiannon really wanted to be an acrobat and join the circus when she was little, but felt she lacked the elegance and flexibility necessary. So she focussed on her other passions and strengths like drawing, painting and making up magical worlds to inhabit in her mind.
