Mark Entwisle
We are delighted to celebrate the fabulous news that Mark Entwisle, one of our very talented artists has been announced the winner of The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2020
We made the 2021 Blue Peter Book Award Short-list!
We were completely thrilled to see the big reveal of the prestigious 2021 Blue Peter Book Award shortlist. What a dazzling array of brilliant books for all ages and reading abilities. We are especially excited to see Aleksei Bitskoff featured in the books for 9-11 year old category with Life of Riley: Beginner’s Luck written by Simon James Green and published by Scholastic. You can read more in our blog post here. Since 2000, the enormously popular and influential Blue Peter Book Awards have been recognising and celebrating the best authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children. Watch a short introduction to this amazing shortlist HERE.
This funny, gentle story is packed with snappy humour and hilarious characters. You can’t help but love Riley, a brilliant, witty, world-weary kid and long-suffering underdog. There’s a lovely message about being grateful for all the things that you have and for appreciating the people who support you, no matter what. Perfect for Diary of a Wimpy Kid fans or children about to start secondary school, though there’s a lot of fun to be had for grown ups here too.
You can grab a copy of Life of Riley Beginner's Luck HERE
Aleksei Bitzkoff is represented by Arena Illustration, you can view his online portfolio HERE
Jiawen Chen wins the WIA SAA Agents Award for New Talent in Illustration
We are delighted to announce know that this year’s winner of the WIA SAA Agents Award for New Talent in Illustration is Jiawen Chen for her work titled ME INSIDE. She was born in Guangzhou, China and is now based in New York City. She got her BFA Illustration degree in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art in 2018, and MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Art in 2020. She creates her work using different techniques, including digital painting, silkscreen printing and watercolour.
FIDA Fashion Illustration Award Winner!
We are over the moon to announce that Tracy Turnbull has won the 'Fashion Figures' Category in the ever prestigious FIDA S/S 2020 Fashion Illustration Drawing Awards.
Startworks 2020 open call to all new graduates!
The Artworks is incredibly excited to announce an open call for new graduates to apply for our Startworks mentoring programme!
Since the agency was founded, Startworks has been helping new graduates bridge the gap between leaving university and kickstarting their career as an illustrator. We continue to successfully represent many artists who have joined the agency through Startworks; helping to expand portfolios, build client relationships and navigate the creative industry.
If you have graduated as part of the class of 2020 from an illustration, design or arts degree and think you’re ready to leap into the world of professional illustration, then we want to hear from you!
Please send a short introduction, no more than 5 low-res jpegs and a link to your online portfolio, to submissions@theartworksinc.com . To reiterate, this is only open to those who have graduated in 2020. Please be aware that due to the overwhelming amount of applications, we can only respond to those who have been successful, but we thank everyone for taking the time to get in touch.
Best of luck! We look forward to hearing from the graduates of 2020!
How Countries Fight their Wars
Maurice Baltissen creates an exceptional animation depicting the characteristics of countries' battle styles.
Paperface joins IllustrationX
IllustrationX are delighted to have Abi Langridge – AKA Paperface join as their latest signing having won the SAA Award at the WIA Awards last year where she stood out to all of us with her, her portfolio is now Live on the site and she is welcoming commissions.
Working in a bold, graphical style, Paperface – creates illustrations that are punchy and expressive, yet light-hearted in tone and thoroughly charming. Her background in graphic garida design means she’s adept at reducing clutter and ensuring that the core message hits home in an instant, knows her way around an agency brief and understands the creative process.
Growing up in Grantham, Abi has been drawn to illustration since childhood. She received a degree in graphic design from Leeds University, before working in London and New York, later returning to the UK and settling in Yorkshire. Her time in the US is a big source of inspiration, with the landscape, culture, people, food and wildlife across the country feeding into her personal work.
To see Paperface's outstanding work please visit her portfolio HERE
Adam Stower and King Coo nominated for the Alligators Mouth Awards – Behind the Book: With Marta Kissi illustrator of Mo Farah’s picture book ‘Ready Steady Mo!’ (Bright Group, Children’s Books, illustrator)
It has been a thrilling time for awards nominations and the excitement continues with the announcement of the Alligators Mouth Awards for Highly Illustrated Fiction. This year we are delighted that Adam Stower's King Coo: The Curse of the Mummy’s Gold, published by David Fickling Books is on the long-list for this exciting new award.
Levi Pinfold shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal – Behind the Book: With Marta Kissi illustrator of Mo Farah’s picture book ‘Ready Steady Mo!’ (Bright Group, Children’s Books, illustrator)
The CILIP Kate Greenaway shortlist has been announced, we always await the listings with baited breath hoping to see some of our supremely talented illustrators recognised for this prestigious award. This year Levi Pinfold has made this prestigious shortlist for his stunning collaboration with author David Almond in The Dam, published by Walker Studio.
Celebrating the best in children’s writing and illustration respectively, the Medals are unique in being judged by children’s librarians, while the Shadowers’ Choice Award, recently added to the Awards ceremony celebrations, is voted for by children and young people who shadow the Medals. The 40-strong list of titles for the 2020 Medals (20 on each longlist) was selected from a total of 162 nominations, read by an expert volunteer team of 14 children's and youth librarians from across the UK.
Levi Pinfold is represented by Arena Illustration. You can view his portfolio here.
Sarah Perkins
Delighted that Sarah Perkins who is proudly represented by Artist Partners, has been selected for the long list of artists in the Folio Society Awards Book Competition 2020.
Her work which illustrates The Folio Collection of Love poems selected by Imtiaz Dharker
For more of Sarah’s wonderfully evocative work please check her out on our website:
Sarah Perkins | Artist | Artist Partners
For the opportunity to vote yourselves for the People’s Choice Award - please do go to the website to view all the marvellous artists and cast your vote.
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