Geoff Grandfield was born in Bristol, England.

He graduated from the Royal College of Art in London

1987, when he began freelance Illustration.

He is currently based in London and pursues his obsession

with the imagery of 'film noir'  that surfaces in a diverse

 range of commissions for newspaper, magazine, design

and book illustrations.

He has won awards for two boxed sets of

Graham Greene's novels, plus the boxed

set and two volumes of short stories of Raymond Chandler's

novels  all published by  The Folio Society.