Charles Piers Mackesy OBE (born 11 December 1962)[1] is a British artist, illustrator, and the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2019).
[2] His work has been featured in books, private collections, galleries, magazine covers, street lamp posts, school classrooms, cafés, women's safe houses, churches, prisons, hospital wards, and countless other public spaces around the world.
In March 2023, Mackesy and Matthew Freud won the Oscar for Animated Short Film for The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
It featured contributions from Bear Grylls, a childhood friend of Mackesy's; Richard Curtis, Oprah Winfrey, J. J. Abrams, and Tom Hollander.
[2] Away from art Mackesy co-runs Mama Buci, which is a honey social enterprise in Zambia, and has helped to run a homeless project in London.