Our President

Sally Castle was born in Reading. She graduated from Maidstone College of Art and worked as a designer in London for ten years. Since then she has worked as an independent designer and illustrator and has designed covers and/or illustrated over forty books for Two Rivers Press. She finds poetry books particularly inspiring and after working on a cover design often continues working on additional artwork. As a mature student, she also gained an MA in Type Design at Reading University.

In 2022 Sally’s illustrated book The Happy Prince was long-listed for the World Illustration Awards; she also had her first solo exhibition at The Caversham Framer, followed by another in 2025. Public work includes the Walking Words panels at Chatham Place and the Forbury Square stone both in Reading. Some of her work is in the permanent collection in Reading Museum. Sally has been a Wild Card on SkyArts Landscape Artist of the Year several times.

Her work has been selected for the SFGA exhibition at the Mall Galleries in 2024, 2025 2026; the Royal West of England Open Exhibition 2025: Ironbridge Print Competition 2024, 2025

To see more about Sally and her work, visit her gallery page.