Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning illustrator and artist; Chris Binns!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning illustrator and artist; Chris Binns!

Throughout childhood Chris Binns was always the “good drawer,” a pastime that was encouraged by his family over the years and heavily inspired by the plethora of fantasy novels his father would read on a weekly basis. The covers of these fantasy novels were a shining beacon to what would become his most coveted genre. Despite his love of art, Chris found himself graduating high school and heading off to electrical engineering school at Oregon State University to follow in his father’s footsteps.

While taking a break from university in 2005 Chris moved to England in 2005 to work in a pub in Manchester for the summer. This was when Chris found his wife Lindsey who would eventually become the mother of his two children and the summer turned into six years. Deciding to take his art more seriously Chris attended the University of Huddersfield on an illustration degree program. After graduating with honors and some newfound knowledge and skills Chris moved back to America. While struggling to kick-start an art career and needing to provide for his family he took an engineering job at Intel. Finding his footing as an engineer and thriving in this new role, Chris learned to feed both vocations. 

These days art is still very much his passion as he seeks new challenges to test his skill sets and push his art to the next level. However, like the children’s books he writes and illustrates for his children, he creates art for fun and enjoys every minute of it. Chris winning art was published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 39