Ben Galbraith was born in Gisborne, New Zealand. After high school, Ben left beach life to go to design school in Wellington, majoring in illustration. After graduation, he moved back to Gisborne. He currently works at a printing house as a graphic designer, while working freelance on his illustration career.

He likes scanning textures into the computer to use in his artwork. At design school he got into trouble for scanning real, smelly dead fish! Other unusual facts include the fact that Ben is colour-blind – all his drawings from when he was a child have purple skies and all self-portraits have green freckles!

Ben loves the ocean and as well as being a mad keen surfer he is also fascinated by fish.