Information for illustrators

“The Organisation agency is wonderful to work with. I never have to be worried about negotiating convenient fees with clients, fair schedules or remembering to promote my work. I only have to focus on what illustrators like the most: art! I let Lorraine to do all the rest.  And twelve years in the agency prove she is the best doing her job!!.”
Javier Joaquin represented by The Organisation

"Since joining The Organisation, my workload has doubled. I've worked on some fantastic projects for great clients both internationally and in the UK, that ordinarily I wouldn't have had the opportunity to. Creating characters for Gordon Scott's children's shoe department was a great project, and more recently, I've had loads of fun working on a fantastic children's iPad app with the lovely people at Ink Robin over in Toronto. 
It is an extremely friendly agency who are always there to offer advice about work and take care of any work concerns. I'm always excited to see what new project is just around the corner and I really appreciate having such great agents representing me."
Lisa Hunt is represented by The Organisation

The Organisation- Company information

The Organisation has been representing the best of international illustration talent for the past 20 years. The company is headed up by managing director Lorraine Owen who has a background as a graphic designer and art director.  Richard Merritt and Steph Vickery make up the rest of the team 

The Organisation has a successful office in New York, enabling a substantial amount of lucrative commissions to come our way from the US. Nearly 50% of the company’s turnover comes from the children's book market  and has resulted in some of our most successful illustrators being booked for work nearly two years in advance. 
The remaining work comes via our extensive contacts in magazines, design groups, advertising, adult publishing and greetings cards. 

We have comprehensive experience in negotiating fees and protecting the rights to our artist's work and we pride ourselves on dealing with the legal minefield of publishing contracts to the benefit of our illustrators.

We LOVE working with illustrators to give your talent the best exposure to our many clients and our reps spend time actively working with you to develop your portfolio
We highlight the strength and the weaknesses and set briefs to fill any gaps and keep giving constructive feedback to enable your work to grow. If we take you on we have confidence in you and your abilities and we aim to share than enthusiasm with clients. 

We help you make strategic decisions for marketing your work and keep abreast with all the latest developments to put your work in front of major clients.
When we visit clients with your work we research the ways in which they choose illustrators and give you valuable feedback. As a major agency we can negotiate great deals on advertising not available to the individual. 
The Organisation has the drive, enthusiasm and bags of experience to make your career as an illustrator grow.

 

Submission Guidelines

We welcome submissions from illustrators across the entire globe

Our agency looks for unique contemporary styles and we never take on an illustrator whose work is similar to a style already represented

BY EMAIL: send a link to your website - or send 5 to 6 low res samples - email must not be larger than 5mb

Click here to send and email

BY MAIL: send printed samples with a SAE for reply and return...

LONDON OFFICE:

The Organisation,
69 Caledonian Road
Kings Cross,
London N1 9BT,
England

NEW YORK OFFICE:

Pauline Mason
cel phone: 917 586 6514

We receive so many submissions that we can only reply if we think we can help you