Rebecca Grabill is a homeschooling mother of six and award-winning author of children's books. While she studied theology in university, she went on to earn an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and has published a wide array of fiction, essays, and poetry for all age levels.
Stephen Grabill, PhD is the theological consultant on this project (and conveniently, Rebecca's husband). He has been steeped in all things theology and economics for more than three decades, earrning a PhD in Systematic Theology and Moral Theology, then writing, editing, speaking and making films, notably the film series For the Life of the World, which has sold more than 250,000 copies and reached 1.5 million viewers.
Clare Therese Gray is the author, illustrator and pattern designer behind the popular Instagram account @claretheresegray. She creates artworks for textiles, paper craft and fabric collections, packaging and homewares. Inspired by the natural environment of her rural Hampshire surroundings, she lives and works on a farm with her husband and young family. After studying Painting at Art School in Norwich she went on to the Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School where she focused on imaginative and observational drawing & printmaking before launching a freelance design career.
Aside from bespoke artworks, she takes on project-based collaborations with like-minded companies. Clare's design experience spans a range of clients and sectors from textiles to craft collections, homewares to book illustration. She is the author of two books,
'Woodland Watercolor: A Colouring Workbook' and '
Painting Nature with Clare: Create Beautiful Gouache Motifs of the Garden, Countryside, Sea, River and Forest' published with Page Street Publishing. She has illustrated the children's picture books, '
The Agnes Series' published with DK. Her patterns can be found around the world on children's and women's apparel, luxury toiletries, stationery, ceramics and decorative objects.
She has a passion for lino printing on paper and fabric, and loves spending time in galleries drawing ceramics and paintings. Otherwise, she can often be found enjoying the English countryside with her family, growing and collecting flowers to dry and, of course, drawing and painting every single day.
