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Melissa Malone

Melissa Malone is an illustrator & art director with over 12 years experience creating art for animation & picture books. Her work is defined by bold playful shapes, experimental textures and a focus on world building. 

She is currently based in Waterford with her family & cat, where she works freelance for clients such as Blink Industries, Aardman and Blue Zoo. 

A pastel-coloured cityscape features a train passing through modern buildings, roads with cars, and green spaces under a hazy sky with distant mountains.
Four colourful, childlike tiger drawings with bright orange and yellow fur, featuring black stripes and expressive faces on a white background.
A child wearing a red hat rides a colourful tiger through a lush, vibrant jungle filled with green and blue foliage under bright sunlight.
A colourful painting of a castle-like building with towers, surrounded by green grass and a large tree in the foreground under a blue sky.
A person with long brown hair wearing a black shirt sits outdoors in front of blooming white flowers, looking slightly to the left with a neutral expression.

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