A-LITTLE ABOUT ME

The Roots

I am an illustrator who has just recently graduated from a BA (hons) Fine Art

I specialize in illustration, mainly book illustration. As-well as illustrating the books I like to hand bind the books myself. But I have done a few commissions based on very different things.

My Graduate exhibition is where it all really started for me although I had done art since I was very small and did A-levels art and an Art Foundation college course.
At university I found a way in which I loved to work which was with line and stippling, using mainly inks.  The work was based on the Myths and Legends of Iceland, I found the stories very interesting after a visit to Iceland in October of last year. I had chosen two stories, one was Kolbeinn and the Devil and the other was the Seal Skin. With these I chose to make 3D models of all the characters first then use some reference photographs for the more difficult poses. I also used all the photographs that I took of the landscape while out in Iceland as a reference for my work. I prefer to use inks, and use stippling as the method of shading. I use a bright flash of colour in the work but not all over. I had researched into many artists throughout my BA course, and the one that has the most reference to my current work is Gustave Dore, especially his work on Dante’s Inferno.

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From there I have done a commission from the National Library of Wales & Cadw & The Royal Commission & The National Museum on the teaching/learning project called The Age of Princes.

I have exhibited work in an exhibition called Eden which took place in the Participate Contemporary Artspace Shrewsbury.

I have done 2 Art Residency’s in Spain: Joya:Arte & Ecologia.

And I have run my own Art Workshops through the Alzheimer’s society.