Hong Kong

 During the Christmas Holiday I went to Hong Kong!!! I went to see family and took my camera to get to know it (the camera) better. Here are a couple ~

Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo

I have been working on some ideas for this years Folio Society Book Illustration Competition and the chosen book is Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo. I read the book and i'd say it's now one of my favourite books! The Imperial War Museum has been housing me for the past couple of weeks as I wanted to learn all about WW1. Above are a couple of drawings made whilst immersing myself in the museum displays and another drawing of the horses at Vauxall City Farm.

Post-Graduation: What next?

So. I graduated earlier this summer and since have traveled to Snowdonia, Dog sat for my mum back in Poole, relinquished all my Saturdays indefinitely to work at Urban Food Festival and pursed making in within the creative field o Illustration! I'm not sure what form this will be but I know I would like to work it out whilst working and putting into practice all I have been learning and developing so far. Since graduating I have been focusing a lot on a project that stylistically is digital vector art and of bold imagery and flat colour (above). I have also continued arranging miniature sets and photographing them (below). For now I plan to continue temp work and sending off my portfolio/website to people!

Miniature sets

For the last couple of months I have been playing with arranging a lot of found, bought, collected and made objects to create miniature sets that communicate a sense of other worldly-ness. I was able to use the photography studio to shoot these sets which has meant they've come out top quality!!

Dramatic crops somehow forms a narrative

I've been making some illustration work about Californian like retro cafes and kept thinking about the cafe from Mighty Mprphin Power Rangers; here are some paintings of cropped stills, they create an intriguing narrative all together.

Many ways of making

Photos taken during a workshop last week with tutor and guest tutor Jay Cover and William Edmonds from Nous Vous. It was all about ways of making, moving between 2D and 3D, and a process of playing with abstraction. Thinking through making.

Interim show

  

During this past week I have been working on the installation of my third year interim show. I decided to exhibit some Monoprints I have been churning out (left) and then I little line of investigation exploring form in painting and then taking that into 3D (right).

I would say for me, third year is the best; I am steering my projects a lot more and have more confidence in what I am doing.

memories into models, models into drawings, drawings into paintings

hello third and final year of my Illustration degree! As the first post of the academic year, I have a couple of photos to show of my recent endeavor.

Paintings made from drawings

original drawings

Drawings made from a model replica of Ham House made by my fellow classmate Emily Martin. Sadly I didn't take a photo of her model.

So, over summer I have been working on a set uni project called Drawing Fiction where I had to choose off a list of possible sites to explore: I chose Hampton Court Palace (it sounded the most potentially fantastic out of the rest). From here, I was then asked to draw the place from imagination, observation and memory.

For our first Studio day, my tutor organised a workshop where we built our chosen places from memory out of mount board and glue. It could have been a room, a corner or the whole site: I chose to construct the whole site. From the models we made drawings by cropping in on certain elements. Then we were asked to draw from other peoples models - which leads me onto these drawings and paintings.

I just saw from my drawings a flicker of an idea - drawn out (more considered) onto wood and painting with flat acrylic.

This whole projects purpose is to provide me with space and opportunity to develop my drawing practice, to analyse and evaluate my own drawing methodology and my perspective on drawing.

Boats on Pink Lake (Lake Retba, Senegal)

I made this screen print during my second year of uni. It was an edition of 15 and they all sold out! I plan to get some business cards printed and this will be one of the designs.

I had the idea for this print when I was scrolling through photographs of beautiful places around the world. This one is inspired by a photograph of Lake Retba, the red rocks below the lake turn the water a bubblegum pink; I saw the photo and thought 'screen printing would produce that flat bubblegum pink'!

Interview for Open House

I have had another interview with Camberwell College of Arts, this time on their OPEN HOUSE event. The pictures look fantastic; it was a really nice day working with kids and giving out free balloons ^_^

An interview with Camberwell Blog

I forgot to mention that I had an interview about my practice on the Camberwell Blog. The photos are a bit dodgy so i'm working on some better ones!

A little something of my own

Amy and Jasmine in their uber cute outfits!

A manga series I am working on independently. I hope to get the first few chapters down and printed this summer ^_^

These girls are in their battle outfits! Think X-men Evolution meets Tokyo Mew Mew.

UAL

I was commissioned to design 5 icons for 5 creative workshops during an OPEN HOUSE event at Camberwell College of Arts.

The client was please with a previous 'early bird' design of mine. So I took that further and responded to each workshop in a simple and communicative way.

'Ceramics'

'Darkroom Experience'

'Letterpress'

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'Screen Printing'

'Stop Motion' 

End of 2nd year Show

Harley Pethybridge

Chloe Wyatt

Rosalind Wilson

Freddie Edwards

Fred Hoffman

Alice Cocks

Charlie Hazeldine

Theo Chin invidulating

SH1UB

Emily Martin

Looking down through wooden beams

Tom Adams

SH1 BR

Hisaho Toshida & Nanami Takeuchi

SH1 FR

Shop

 Last Thursday saw the private view of Parallel Cities, our collaborative exhibition between 2nd year Ba Graphic Design and Illustration. The night was described as a house party; we had a live band, bar, shop, art, cafe round back and a garden space. It was a brilliant atmosphere and a lot of people said how impressed they were. Seems we've made a great impression and raised high expectations for next year!