Matthew Johnstone

Matthew worked for 13 years as an art and creative director in advertising where he created award winning work in Sydney, San Francisco and New York. He also had successful photographic and illustrative exhibitions in the US.

In 1999 his first book What’s the Story? was published by Stewart Tabori and Chang. I Had a Black Dog, an illustrated book on what it is to suffer depression, was published by Pan Macmillan in 2005. Pan Macmillan published the follow up, Living with a Black Dog, in 2008. Constable & Robinson then published in January 2009 after which the book went to #9 on the Sunday Times Bestseller List.

The Alphabet of the Human Heart: The A-Zen of Life, which he worked on with James Kerr was published in the UK by Constable & Robinson in January 2011.