George Butler is an award-winning illustrator but has reinvented the role of the Artist Reporter drawing conflict zones, climate issues, humanitarian crisis and social issues for the news.  His drawings are done in situ - in pen, ink and watercolour.

Over the last 15 years George has been commissioned to offer a deliberately slow alternative to the headlines.  He attaches his drawings to the personal testimonies of those that he meets and records their resolve and resilience alongside the vulnerability of their situations. This has included in a Leprosy Clinic in Nepal, a militia in Yemen, the Mass Graves in Bucha, a caesarean-section in Afghanistan, the artisanal oil fields of Myanmar and most recently for the Guardian documenting the aftermath of the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria. (22/2/23)

His drawings have been published by The Times (London), Monocle, New York Times, the Guardian, SZ Magazin, VQR, BBC, CNN, Der Spiegel, ARD television (Germany) and NPR.  His work has been shown in the Imperial War Museum North, Lambeth Palace and is in collection at the V&A Museum and the National Army Museum. His book Drawn Across Borders is published by Walker Studio and Candlewick. His new Ukraine: Remember Also Me is a collection of vivid and powerful testimonies and artwork from the conflict in Ukraine is published in June 2024. (Walker Studio)

‘The humanity of this artist shines out from every stroke of his brush.’
Mishal Husain, journalist