![]() ![]() Complex realms of physics and biology become accessible and comprehensible to readers young and old in their treatment by Chin. Art classes at Syracuse University, where he studied illustration, taught his "hand."Ĭhin makes beautiful books, illustrated with watercolors, about science and nature. ![]() Informal study with Hyman as a teenager and college student - hanging out, talking, watching, painting - taught Chin's "heart" as an artist, he said. He and Gill moved to Burlington four years ago. Twenty years after that phone call, Chin's unsure if calling Hyman was "a little rude" or just bold.Ĭhin, 35, is a children's book illustrator and writer who lives near Oakledge Park in Burlington with his wife, artist Deirdre Gill, and their kids Liam, 3, and Maeve, 7 months. ![]() "I was 15," Chin said the other day, "and I didn't know what I was doing." Jason Chin was a sophomore at Hanover High School when he telephoned Trina Schart Hyman, an acclaimed children's book illustrator, and asked for guidance with an art project.Ĭhin was a kid in Lyme, N.H., who liked to draw. ![]()
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