A Phoenix in London

Andy Council paints a dynamic centrepiece mural.
Commissioned for the new offices of Armstrong International in the heart of London's financial district, the elegant phoenix design is made up of many of the iconic modern high rise buildings found in the area and beyond.

Council Walks With Dinosaurs

Expert on all things prehistoric, Andy Council's interview with BBC's 'Walking with Dinosaurs' is now published on their website. Talking about his art and obsession with dinosaurs, Andy also takes us back to his childhood and first fossil (concrete) find! Have a read here.

DinoZoo 2

Andy Council has been working on a large scale project with Bristol Zoo to promote the return of DinoZoo, a host of 12 life-like animatronic dinosaurs taking up residence at the attraction. Over the last few weeks, Andy has attracted crowds at local shopping centres around Bristol, who have all eagerly looked on as he creates dinosaur masterpieces using only a spray can, a 20ft by 10ft board and his imagination. Andy has also been visiting schools in Bristol and South Wales to get an insight into the young pupils' local community and buildings, through their drawings and ideas. From this material, he has created a host of dinosaur illustrations, whose bodies are comprised of various landmarks relevant to the school’s area. Each dinosaur illustration is displayed within the Bristol Zoo grounds and is there for all to see as of the DinoZoo2 launch last month. Andy said, “My work involves dinosaurs and Bristol landmarks, so the DinoZoo project at Bristol Zoo Gardens is a perfect fit for me. I enjoy involving the local community, both the people and places!”

DinoZoo2 will be open every day until Sunday September 8 2013, and is free with Zoo admission. It will give visitors the chance to get up-close to this amazing new breed of dinosaurs and learn even more about their incredible characteristics.

Portas Pilots

photograph by www.paulgreenphotography.com

Andy Council has recently completed this magnificent mural of a horse in the Bedminster area of Bristol. It was commissioned as part of the Government’s ‘Portas Pilots’ – an initiative to get TV retail guru Mary Portas to help revitalise town centres. Bedminster’s bid, put together by local traders, community leaders and councillors, had the vision of turning the south Bristol suburb into a renowned ‘village’ centre for street art and street theatre, complete with a bicycle rickshaw service. Andy's large mural took several days of work to complete with the help of the Upfest team, the use of a scissor lift and dozens of cans of spray paint. The horse was chosen to reflect the area's mining past and it is purely coincidental that current news stories involve horses!

Vic Lee's Scrapbook

The streets & stories of London are brought to life in Vic Lee's art & typography. Vic Lee's Scrapbook.

People's Promenade Paving

Hannah Megee has been commissioned by Broadbent Studio and Wyre Borough Council to design a paving slab to sit at the base of a new sculpture on Cleveleys' award-winning 'People's Promenade'. The resulting piece has images and text inspired by 'The Sea Swallow', a children's book illustrated by Hannah last year in association with the same project. She says "The images also show a granite relief of another of my book illustrations depicting two sea swallows in flight."

Sports Illustrated

Chris Ede has produced this stunning graffiti cover art for Sports Illustrated which has just hit the shelves in the US. Featuring Deron Williams, the issue dives "into the history of Brooklyn sports, as seen through the eyes of a writer who covered the borough’s basketball scene in the 1970s." You can also see an animation of the cover here.

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."