Brian Charles Pilkington (born 20 July 1950) is an English-born Icelandic illustrator and artist, best known for his illustrations of many Icelandic children's books since the 1980s.
Pilkington has also illustrated other literature genres, including his own book of Icelandic fauna (Dýraríki Íslands (1992)).
[1] Pilkington was born and raised in Liverpool, England, and graduated from the School of Arts of the University of Leicester.
He moved to Iceland in 1974 where he soon found work in the advertising industry there.
His first notable illustration work came about in 1981 when he was commissioned by the Icelandic author Guðrún Helgadóttir to illustrate her children's book Ástarsaga úr fjöllunum.