Hazel East grew up in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, and loved to draw from a very young age. As an adult she studied performing arts and went on to develop a socially engaged creative practice. Hazel currently works as a community artist specialising in working with neurodiverse children and young people alongside her illustration work. 

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Hazel's work takes places and spaces and adds colour, pattern and shapes to bring them to life. Her work is influenced by a passion for maps, permanent way, architecture and a curiosity for how everything links together. Hazel loves to explore and creates maps and illustrations of spaces and places that have meaning and connection for her.