Leon Kossoff

This final piece by a British artist is one in the Tate. The storey behind the piece is of an artist who had a dream of melting after being put in a wheelchair.

Lottie Jackson-Eels

Lottie Jackson-Eels was born 1988 Surrey, UK. She studied both her Foundation and Fine Art degree at the University of Creative Arts, Farnham (2006-2010).

I came across her work on Thursday when looking around the Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition at the Jerwood Space.

The piece was a mixed media concertina titled "Imagery Imaginary, volume four". I really enjoyed her use of lines, shapes and collage.

Source: http://www.londonsartistquarter.org/artist-hub/users/lottie-jackson-eeles/profile

Martin Creed

I saw Martin Creed's exhibition in Hull this summer and although I don't think I liked his work at all, this piece stuck with me. I think its because these are words I've heard a lot. The British worry a lot. But I think the instruction "Don't Worry" is the most annoying thing a worried person can hear. If it was that easy to stop being worried don't you think I would've tried that already?! And I think what a lot of people fail to understand is that what I want when I'm upset, stressed, worried, is not for someone to try to solve my problem, to try and stop me being worried, for someone to just allow me to talk through my problems and listen and say "yeah I agree that sucks". I actually think British people enjoy worrying. And I don't think worrying is a problem; when I worry I get things done. So when I saw this instruction on the wall; I actually felt angry. How dare someone tell me how not to feel! Anyway, I don't know if that was Martin Creed's intention, but that was my response, and any emotional response you get from art is a good thing I guess...
Source: http://art-it.tumblr.com/page/221

Donna Wilson

My final example of a British designer is Donna Wilson who set up her company in 2003 after making odd knitted creatures for her final show at the Royal College of art. Since then she has been designing and making cushions, lambswool blankets, and other products for the home.
Source: http://donnawilsonsblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Heidi Burton

 As my next example of a British designer, I wanted to mention Heidi Burton's handmade and hand illustrated journals that I came across in a bookshop yesterday.

Heidi works freelance from London and her designs are inspired by folktales, nature, music, literature and poetry.

Source: http://heidiburton.wordpress.com/page/2/

Rosalind Wyatt

As my first example of a British designer, I'm naming Rosalind Wyatt, who is also an artist I came across in the Lost Soles exhibition.
Source: http://www.rosalindwyatt.com/

Florence Shaw

The next British illustrator I'm going to mention is Florence Shaw. Born in South East London, and studied BA illustration at Camberwell. Studied also at the Royal College of Art. Her pencil drawings are
observational, particularly about people.
Source: http://florenceshaw.com/

Nick Sharratt

The next illustrator I'm going to name is a complete contrast; Nick Sharratt. You will find his work familiar if you read the Jacqueline Wilson books as a child. I was reminded of his work this summer when visiting the art gallery of Hull and coming across an exhibition featuring some of his original drawings. It was mentioned in the exhibition that his simple style means that the slightest line he makes causes the expression of an image to change entirely.  

Source: http://ziggyshortcrust.wordpress.com/tag/jacqueline-wilson/

Aubrey Beardsley - The Peacock Skirt

I've been given the task to name 9 british illustrators, designers, and artists. First I'm obviously going to name Aubrey Beardsley! So here is one of his illustrations done for Oscar Wilde's Salome in 1894, "The Peacock Skirt".

Source: http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/beardsley/3.html

Dog who can paint!

Just going to finish off today's posts with a cute image illustrating a story I read about a dog who paints! He is a rescue dog in Vegas and the money from the paintings that get sold go to a dog rescue charity :)
The paintings as you can see are just lines but they actually look quite nice, and come on, even if he has no idea what he's doing, that's a pretty clever dog!

Liane Plant

While having my own work up in the Lost Soles exhibition on 38 Earlham Street this week, I noticed Liane Plant's piece also and really enjoyed her use of line and black and white contrast. I later discovered she is also a UAL student but studying illustration/graphic design at Central St Martins :)

Living near the Tate

I've just moved about a 5 minute walk away from the Tate Modern so hear are a few images of a couple of interesting exhibitions I've seen there in my first week.

 The top image is pieces by the Beirut artist, Saloua Raouda Choucair. I really enjoyed her sculpture pieces as they were quite interesting structures that were fun to draw.

The bottom image is of pieces by the African modernist, Ibrahim El-Salahi. The drawings appealed to me because of the interesting and expressive faces and movement of the characters.

Chinese Symbols

I wanted to show this as an interesting piece of imagery. It is a collection of stamps and postcards given to me by my Chinese flatmate last year. She explained to me that each symbol represents different kinds of people that you might chose to give the postcards away to. I just thought it was an interesting use of symbols and imagery.

Kawaii

Kawaii, which I think means cute in Japanese was the name of an exhibition of Japanese and Greek art I saw during my stay in Athens this summer. The whole exhibition was really interesting but I've just uploaded some images of my favourite pieces. Just underneath the "Kawaii" image is an image by Hyon Gyon called "Portrait of someone" done with satin on panel. I thought this piece was interesting because I've never seen satin used this way. Right of this image is one of a dress with the word, "Kalemera" meaning "good morning" in Greek. Being one of the few words I learnt on my trip, I enjoyed seeing it. But I am interested to know what the relevance of this word is to the dress. Bottom left was pointed out to me by the curator of the exhibition when I explained I was an illustration student as it was done in colour pencil by the illustrator, Asako Masunouchi who I think he told me is Japanese living in Athens. Finally the bottom right image was the first piece that struck me as I walked into the gallery. It is called "The Tyranny of Time" by Maria Tsimbourla. I love the use of acrylic in it almost as if it were ink.

Guido Daniele's hand paintings

Done by the Italian artist, Guido Daniele. At first I didn't realise it was painted on a hand. So clever and interesting; I love the detail.

Elliot Ford - Double exposures

Was looking through Elliot(a friend of mine whose an awesome photographer)'s photos and loved this. He's done a whole series of these double exposures. I think what he does is put the film through the camera more than once to get photos on top of each other. He told me it started off as an accident.

GOD SAYS HOMOSEXUALITY IS IN

Came across this image and thought it was great! Clever how just taking out one letter can completely change the meaning. Good for them :)