Live Portraiture for Frey Wille

One of the many portraits drawn by Miss Led

Two portraits drawn at the live event

Miss Led at work

Working with PR company Pink Umbrella, Miss Led is invited to draw live portraits at the InStyle Magazine launch event for the new Frey Wille products.
Miss Led used her great experience in this environment to create some fashion portraits of people at the launch. And working with new materials and at a larger size than usual, she says ..."the work was challenging but enjoyable. I met some lovely people who were extremely appreciative of having a free portrait".

Miss Led's Workshop

The Miss Led Workshop; Printspace August 2013

Ten lucky competition winners were treated to a workshop entitled 'How to create a mixed media portrait' run by the talented Miss Led last month. Hosted by the Printspace in Shoreditch, Miss Led shared her deep knowledge of live art, techniques and medium. She says of the event "...Was so cool after running workshops for years in so many different settings, to actually present a work based session on my own practice..."
And to coincide with New York Fashion week, Miss Led will be doing another workshop at CASS Islington this month. Watch the workshop video. 

Drawn

Work in progress for the opening night of 'Drawn'

Drawn invite

Miss Led is delighted to be taking part in 'Drawn' at the Printspace Gallery in August. In good company with talents such as Alan Coulson, Claire Scully and Holly Sharpe, Miss Led will also be performing live art on the opening night this Thursday. Here we see a piece she is currently preparing for the event aswell as the invite for the exhibition. The show continues until August 23rd at The Printspace Gallery, 74 Kingsland Road, London E2.

Miss Led at the Saatchi Gallery

Miss Led with the model

detail

Last week's Live Painting event in the Basement area of the Book Club has culminated in a 'fantastic showcase' at the Saatchi Gallery this week. Miss Led took part in the event; organised by Subism Collective and Liquitex Artist Materials to produce 'Life Shrinks and Expands in Proportion to Ones Courage', painted in acrylic on canvas and sized at 1 x 1.5 metres. Miss Led says "It was amazing. Such an opportunity. And such an accolade to have work at the Saatchi."

Miss Led in Shoreditch to Saatchi

Next week - 18th April to be precise sees Miss Led doing one of the many things she does so amazingly well - LIVE PAINTING.  It's been 3 years since Miss Led's last live event, and next Thursday's will take place at The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4RH. The large canvas creation will then be exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery the following Tuesday 23rd April. For more info go to the Liquitex Facebook page.

Love Letters

Take a look at this wonderful self initiated project by Miss Led. 'Love Letters' is available as a Limited edition print...

Dirty Thoughts!

This saucy cover by Miss Led sits on the front of a new book published by Carlton Publishing. Miss Led's girl is the perfect model for a book of this genre -  she says "My first book cover for Carlton Publishing –  how exciting! Thanks to Lucy Coley and my agency Illustration Ltd.  Really enjoyed working with on this." 'It's the Dirty Thought that Counts: Sexy Jokes for Saucy Girls' is out now.

Wired Brand Live Portraits

The extremely gifted Miss Led was invited by Wired Brand to produce some live portraits at an event recently. As an artist used to working under pressure, Miss Led has produced some brilliant drawings. She says: "After seeing the work I had created at the live portraiture event with Ted Baker earlier on this year Wired Brand invited me as guest artist to attend a Christmas supper event at The Cube this December. The challenge – as there is always a challenge – was to create portraits of each dinner guest before they had finished dinner.  That gave me approximately 15 minutes for each drawing".  Miss Led had a great night and had quite a nice view for the evening too!

Miss Led at Images 36

Miss Led's painting for the LYNX angels campaign will be showing as part of Images 36 - Best of British Illustration 2012, at Somerset House. Starting on 3rd October the exhibition will stay at the venue til 28th and then tour England and Wales until mid 2013. Well done Miss Led!

"Somerset House hosts Images 36: Best of British Illustration exhibition, organised annually by the Association of Illustrators (AOI), for the first time in its history.
Kick-starting Somerset House’s blockbuster autumn and winter season, Images 36: Best of British Illustration presents the winning work of over 50 artists from the length and breadth of the UK, who entered the AOI’s flagship competition, Images."

Graphic Design Walk

Miss Led's Studio

Miss Led is really excited to be part of the Graphic Design Walk this year for Design Week in association with Birdwatching. The idea is a platform creating support and career development for women in graphic design, and after a successful Design Walk last year, which involved 15 East London studios opening to the public, they are running the event again.  Other illustrators involved this year are - Erin Petson, Pomme Chan and Emily Forgot. It all happens on September 21st and 22nd, you can purchase tickets here.

Hellohead Exhibition

Miss Led is one of the artists involved in the Hellohead project raising money for Autism. The 60 portrait swapping artists will have their prints on show in an exhibition organised by Lucy Joy and Rosie Shorter this month at Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, EC2, London on 22nd August. The exhibition is featured in Design week and looks to be an interesting event, with a silent art auction of all the prints, live portrait drawing, a pop up shop, plus an interactive set and lots more. More information can be found here.

Ted's Drawing Room

Miss Led took part in a very unique experience recently for Ted Baker. One which is very up her street; painting portraits live of members of the public in Ted Baker clothes, and literally as they were trying them on in store! Customers in Flagship stores around the UK, Ireland and New York were encouraged to take part by choosing something from the Spring/Summer collection and getting snapped in their Drawing Room photobooth's. These images were then emailed to the studio where eleven illustrators were waiting, the images were pinned up for them to pick and choose between to inspire some portraiture and full figure work. The experience was streamed live and online. Through the Ted Baker Facebook page you could also check in with the artist's progress, watch interviews and even see the portraits complete and framed on site. The following Monday the framed images were then sent to those lucky chosen 'subjects', to receive at their door! Miss Led says "One off event. 11 artists, streamed live over 8 hours producing portraits of shoppers worldwide. What a great day" Watch the video of the day.

Edding Featured Artist

Miss Led was chosen and shot as Edding featured artist last month and placed on the back cover of  the popular Street Art Magazine; VNA. Miss Led quite rightly was chuffed!

Shatila Art Project

Miss Led has drawn a beautiful portrait for the Shatila Art Project. The piece is to be donated to the project, which will then be auctioned on 26th March, with all proceeds going to the cause which raises money for young people. Miss led says "The project will involve teaching young people in a refugee camp in Lebanon basic aerosol painting skills to improve their environment, build friendships, confidence and hopefully the chance to visit England for an exhibition of resulting artworks." Miss Led is one of 6 artists involved, the others being Jon Burgerman, Paul Davidson, D*Face, Dan Hillier and Kid Acne.

Lynx Angels Makes Images 36

Miss Led aka Joanna Henly is over the moon with the news that her brilliant painting for the Lynx campaign has been selected to appear in the AOI's Images 36: the best of new British illustration publication. Even Angels Will Fall was a big job for Miss Led last year, and has won her a page in the advertising section. This news is icing on the cake for Miss Led. Well done!

Lufthansa Mural

Chris Ede

Chris Ede

Miss Led

Miss Led

Ben Tallon

Working with Wunderman in Germany for Lufthansa, several of our artists have contributed to an amazing mural exhibited in Berlin. Chris Ede, Ben Tallon and Miss Led along with others illustrated the "Zukunft-Berlin-campaign", "Sieh doch, was Du willst". Each piece from the individual artist has been combined to create a massive mural in a giant public space in Berlin.