Sue Macartney-Snape was born in Tanzania, grew up in Australia and arrived in London in 1980.

She has had sell out exhibitions with leading London galleries and has had many commissions, including ones from Glyndebourne and The Metropolitan Opera.

Between 1994 and 2011 Sue Macartney Snape drew the characters in the Saturday Telegraph Magazine’s Social Stereotypes column, a selection of which have been republished in nine books.

Sue Macartney Snape won the 2004 Pont Award for drawing the British Character and has been acclaimed as the “Wodehouse of Art”.

Courtesy of the artist’s website.