Pat Fogarty

Pat "Piffy" Fogarty (15 November 1940 – 17 February 1999) was a South African-born illustrator, who in 1965 migrated to Europe, ultimately settling in London, England, where she became "one of the best respected freelance book illustrators".

Biography

Patricia Marion Fogarty – known from childhood by the nickname "Piffy" – was born on 15 November 1940 in Cradock, Cape Province, South Africa, into a farming family; together with her older brother Denis and her twin Leigh, she was brought up in Grootfontein, Namibia, where their grandfather Nelson Wellesley Fogarty had been Anglican Bishop of Damaraland.