The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.
Author: SAA 
Think you can run faster than Usain Bolt? Alex Williamson created this strong cover for Red Bulletin Magazine for an interview with Usain on how to enhance your performance.
Alex Williamson is represented by Debut Art
The Ruth Borchard Collection is the UK’s only public collection of self-portraits by British and Irish artists, with 150 works and growing. The Original Collection was the life-long project of Ruth Borchard, who built up a collection of 100 self-portraits by the most distinguished twentieth-century artists in Britain. The Prize offers a unique opportunity for new and established artists alike to compete for a £10,000 prize, and the chance for their work to be purchased for the Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection. Emily Tull's portrait, which has been shortlisted, is from a series of hand-embroidered works of art.
Here's what she says about the work:
"In this series beauty and fragility are enhanced. Hand stitching takes the place of drawing, abstracting the subject, breaking down the features to a more vulnerable state. The thread 'melting' into the fabric representing delicate 'skin'."You can see her portrait "Fragility #2" exhibit along with other entries for the prize at Piano Nobile Kings Place,London until the October 9thEmily Tull is represented by Artist Partners
Telecoms brand Three have a brand-spanking-new office in Dublin and we’re pleased to say many of the walls are adorned with murals created by our very own Hey Studio. The concept for the new office is that each meeting room is named after a three letter word. The words including – HEN, HEX, HOT, HUE, ICE, JOY, KIT, KOB, KOI and LAB, were used by Hey as the themes for the illustrations for each room.
Hey Studio is represented by Handsome Frank
Grumbug! is Adam Stower's beautifully illustrated new picture book, follow up to the charming Troll and the Oliver
Garry Walton was commissioned by Rare Breed to illustrate Colliers Midsummer Retail Report. Pastiche artist Garry worked in the classic comic book style to create a series of bold characters for the reports covers.
Ruth Rowland was showcased at Art in Action last week; the event which shows how artists work in studio.
Phosphor Art are running a feature on their website called Meet the Artist, a simple five question interview which aims to gain a better insight into the world of their artists. Most recently featured was Chinese artist Nod Young who told Phosphor all about his current self-initiated comic book project and advises aspiring artists to grab every opportunity.
A new interview will be uploaded monthly so look out for July’s interview, which will feature the work of Jenny Lloyd.
See all previous interviews and some other news here:https://www.phosphorart.com/category/meet-the-artist/
Jenny Lloyd is represented by Phosphor Art
Tracie created a mysterious cityscape that integrates with the 3D watch display towers in the Ted Baker & Moore store on Commercial Street, London. The colours and lighting make it feel like a surreal night scene from a dark comic that fit with Ted Baker’s sharp style and fun approach to all their visuals.
Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland has been a unique source of nonsensical artistry & whimsical storytelling for the past 150 years and will continue to inspire book lovers the world over for generations to come.
This week, Dan Taylor's vibrant sticker book published with Campbell this July and includes over 300 stickers for Wonderland lovers to enjoy.
Dan Taylor is represented by The Bright Group
She's pleased, Dale Did a fantastic job and I'm super proud of him.
They truly are a joyful bunch of illustrations and i'm not surprised it all had a happy ending. 
Words by Dale ..
"Mark maker & illustrator. I like to deal with contemporary social issues and love to make work that contains slight dark humour."
"I'm originally from Lincolnshire but have Irish and Scottish family. I now live and work in Birmingham. My inspiration comes from reading books. The last book I read was The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. A brilliant book.
I love illustrators such as Laura Carlin, Ralph Steadman, Luke Best. There's far too many to mention. I used to collect starwars figures, but I've grown out of it. I dont have any room to collect things. I have a spare room but I've turned into a makeshift studio.
Increased blood pressure and/or heart rate during phenterminehealth.com therapy is a reason to reduce the dose of the drug and even cancel it."
Dale Wylie is represented by Lipstick of London
