Jacqueline Bissett is One of the Best!

A very proud Jacqueline Bissett  appeared on MSN's 'Our Favourite Fashion Illustrators' list last friday. And in the company of talents such as Holly Sharpe and Danny Roberts, you can imagine she's pretty pleased! Take a look.

Bob Robber and Dancing Jane

'Bob Robber and Dancing Jane'; a children's book illustrated by Bee Willey and written by Andrew Matthews is to stage as a ballet!

Produced by Clare Prenton,  the story now evolved as 'Shadow Thief' is a thrilling development of the original book about the dark souled Bob Robber who learns to dance and live in the light with help from Dancing Jane. Bee says "Both myself and Andrew were delighted at the clip with the lyrics we were sent by Clare's agent, and also by the twitter info around the rehearsals in Barnes, seemingly leading to a premiere in 2014 in Edinburgh! It is wonderful for a story like this to take off in a new context…"

Dolores

This moody painting by T.S Spookytooth is a promotional piece for his short story "Dolores".
Spookytooth says " (The story) revolves around a house that sits on an unkempt lawn that was sun scorched from summers past and tangled with weeds that winter could not kill. It concerns a young girl called Dolores and who she is...or was." The mystery of the narrative echoes Spookytooth's enigmatic illustrations. We look forward to seeing more.

Gregor on the Sherlock Set

Max at work on the Sherlock set

views of the final mural in the wedding scene

 

 

wedding invite motif

Max Gregor designs and paints a mural for the backdrop of Watson's wedding in a recent episode of BBC's Sherlock. Commissioned by the Production Designer, Max also created a black and white motif for the wedding invite seen in popular crime drama.

New Talent Alert: Amyisla McCombie

Amyisla McCombie's illustrations are both delicate in style and bold in design, take a look at her portfolio...

Corr's Views from The Shard

The Shard and City Flight

The Shard at Night

The Shard and River Thames Looking West

Shard sketches

On sale at The Shard shop are these unique prints by Christopher Corr.
Commissioned by The Shard via Easy Art to paint views from the iconic London landmark, Christopher created four artworks showing the panorama at different times of the day. The Shard is at a height of 1,016ft (310m) being the tallest building in Western Europe, Christopher says "The view is wonderful".

Grover at Zizzi

port crane detail

suspended frames

James Grover creates a mural for Zizzi Ipswich.
Commissioned by the Design manager at Zizzi, James worked over a five day period to complete the different elements of the painting. Using a scaffold tower for the high parts, James has produced an awesome piece of art for the restaurant. He says "The mural is a map of Ipswich’s centre, showing the main attractions and significant buildings. There are also a few little bits of info about the town dotted around too. The frames are made to look like they are suspended by a port crane which I was also asked to draw. The designs were produced using acrylic paint pens and emulsion."

Creative Confidence

Alyana Cazalet illustrates "Creative Confidence: Unleashing the creative potential within us all".
Published last month, the book by Tom and David Kelley (IDEO founder and Stanford University Design School creator) has become an Amazon bestseller. Alyana worked on the illustrations for ten chapters of the book and says of the project "I was facing some challenging tasks for (the) visual interpretation of (the) chapters...the book was aimed mainly for corporate professionals and I knew very little about this world...yet it gave me a bit of freedom." All the images can be seen here.

Liam O'Farrell at the Affordable Art Fair

Michelin Building, London

From tomorrow, watercolour artist Liam O'Farrell will be exhibiting at The Affordable Art Fair in Battersea.
Obsessed with 'day to day' stuff and the architecture surrounding us, Liam's paintings effervesce with recognisable characters, places and buildings. The exhibition continues until 27th October.  More information here.

Fishy Art

Fish For Sale In Salvador

Mussels Man

Marseille Fish Market

Grand Canal Fish Market

Christopher Corr exhibits his latest 'fish themed' paintings at Kensington Place.
This show at the Notting Hill restaurant 'features fish from the seven seas', referencing his time spent in Marseille and other world travels. The joyful nature of his work in this setting will be a feast for the eyes and the belly!
The artworks are hanging from today until January 2014.

Patterson at The Affordable Art Fair

Breaking into the 'fine art scene' and following his success at the Decorative Art Fair recently, Barry Patterson will now be exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea this month. Running from 24th - 27th October these stunning still life paintings are two of the four up for sale.

The Beetson Compendium

cover of journal

A dream of a job came the way of Sarah Beetson who was asked to create many illustrations to be used in a journal for Compendium. She says "It was a lovely open brief and I had control over the art direction of the entire journal illustrating quotes about natural beauty alongside florals, botanicals and birds. I even got to create my own lined pages!" The final book is a gorgeous celebration of Sarah's work as well as a handy jotter for your day's thoughts! Take a look at the journal.