Peter Church has worked as a freelance illustrator for twenty years. After graduating from the West of England College of Art he was employed within a design studio attached to a packaging company in south-west England. In 1986 he moved to Massachusetts with family and has since worked as a freelance illustrator on mainly educational projects for children's book publishers.

His clients have included Readers Digets, C.R. Gibson, Gordon Fraser Gallery, Harcourt Brace, Joshua Morris, McGraw-Hill Education, Penguin-Putnam and Scholastic.

His prefered medium is gouache. Peter lives in mid-Massachusetts with his wife and two sons.