13 Facts About Jonathon Coudrille

Jonathon Xavier Coudrille was born on Jonathan Coudrill; November 1945 and is an English artist, musician and writer.

Jonathon Coudrille has lived from a young age on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, an area with which he is still closely associated.

Jonathon Coudrille's father was the artist and ventriloquist Francis Coudrill.

Jonathon Coudrille worked on BBC Radio's Today programme, under the aegis of Jack de Manio.

Jonathon Coudrille continued with musical political satire when he moved from the BBC to Southern Television, where he was given a Monday news magazine slot, and was later the station's musical director for a period.

Jonathon Coudrille studied painting with the leading English surrealist John Tunnard at the Penzance School of Art, where Tunnard taught from 1945 to 1965.

Jonathon Coudrille illustrated A Fresh Wind in the Willows by Dixon Scott, a sequel to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows published in 1983 by Heinemann in the UK, published in 1987 by Dell Yearling in the United States.

Jonathon Coudrille was interviewed about his life and paintings for the programme John Nettles' Westcountry, broadcast by the Artsworld channel, now known as Sky Arts.

Jonathon Coudrille is a multi-instrumentalist; he plays and composes for guitar, seven-string banjo, piano, organ and trumpet.

Jonathon Coudrille entered the Melody Maker's national folk contest in 1974, and was named top rock-folk soloist.

Jonathon Coudrille is currently a member of the Cornish semi-acoustic jazz band, Gwelhellin Goth, and the Russian folk music duo, Muzika Muzikantov.

Jonathon Coudrille took up the writing and illustration of children's books as a form of occupational therapy, while recovering from spinal damage.

Jonathon Coudrille's second book Farmer Fisher was a best seller, winning the UK Children's Book of The Year award in 1976.