Jila Peacock was born in Iran in 1948. She studied medicine before she completed a Painting degree at St Martin’s School of Art in 1984. Between 1990 – 2004, she was a part time lecturer at Glasgow School of Art and a Visiting Scholar at New Hall, Cambridge. While painting and printing are her main mediums, she has also worked in animation and collaborated with composers. Her booked Ten Poems from Hafez won the British Book Design Award. These illustrations then formed part of the film Tongue of the Hidden which was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2007, won the Tehran short film festival and was short-listed for a Scottish BAFTA in 2008. Peacock now lives in Suffolk and works between there and Glasgow.