Zebedee Helm

Zebeedee Helm’s work is regularly published in several national publications including Private Eye, The Spectator, House and Garden, The Lady and Art Review. Recently he has been contributing animated Gifs on political matters to the Financial Times. He has embarked on creating a series of children’s guides, which include Kit and Willy’s guide to the Dogs of the World, Art and a forthcoming one on Buildings. They are co-published in America. In 2012 he co-wrote and illustrated a best-selling ABC book about the British Middle Class called inventively The Middle Class ABC. This was published by John Murray and has been translated into Mandarin and is hugely popular in China.

In late 2013 he cobbled together some drawings for John Lobb, the luxury shoemaker, then trotted out some maps and multifarious illustrations for French fashion house, Hermes. Fortnum & Mason got scent of his talent and commissioned a mural in the fragrance and beauty hall, and he inflated his prices for a residency with Airbnb in Milan. His latest illustrated work is a set of drawings for a recent history of Wimbledon tennis championships, called Standing in Line, which is published in May 2018. He also serves up the official cartoons for the Wimbledon fortnight and for the last 3 years has been the piss artist in chief for Jeroboams and their numerous wine merchants across London. His ancient family motto is ‘Leones mihi cassis’, which translates as ‘Lions are blackcurrants to me’. He lives by this, in a hovel on the side of a windy valley in The Poshwolds. His interests include nougat.