Tasha St John-Reid was born in Mazwingo, Zimbabwe on 30/03/1973. She currently lives in Darling on the West Coast, RSA and is a South African citizen.

In 1997 she completed a three-year diploma at Foundation School of Art, and for the next two years she worked as a freelance illustrator. During this time she was part of a team for Operation Hunger, creating visual learning aids for adults’ and children’s education and literacy as well as information programmes for health and water awareness. She assisted in formulating educational aids for MVULA Trust, mostly for illiterate adults in informal settlements around Cape Town and the Eastern Cape. Tasha has participated in many projects, illustrating maps for Western Cape Tourism and De Beers. At the end of 1999 she travelled overseas for six months. Upon returning in 2000, Tasha opened her own gallery/coffee lounge in her hometown, Darling. In 2002 she sold her shop, ‘Through the Looking Glass’, to travel and work in Bermuda for two years. In February 2004 Tasha returned to Darling and to date has been illustrating for Heinemann Publishers, Maskew Miller Longman, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Shuter & Shooter and Macmillan RSA.