About

I was born Sandra Ensby, then married and became a Salter. As I began to develop my illustration work i felt a new identity might free me up to think fresher, a clean slate.

I picked my granny’s first name Cecily and the truncated Salt fitted neatly on the end. So I’m still linked to my history, and my children – who are little Salters.

Creative Strands

I have had several brushes in arts disciplines, beginning in childhood with ballet and dance including 18 months at Arts Educational School, Tring Park – ballet gave way to art which then evolved into animation at the Royal College of Art. My younger adult years I spent in London working in new media and the animation industry. As parenthood kicked in there seemed to be a constant need for greetings cards and presents so I taught myself screen printing as a way to fulfill this. 

So despite accruing a variety of skills from making short films to running a shop – I just needed to go a bit further to scratch an itch, to channel all I’d learnt so far into one clear path – and that is where illustration for childrens picture books comes in.

Onwards

So here I am now relaunching myself as an illustrator, It’s early days but the new era has certainly begun for Cecily Salt.