The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.

Steward Easton label and mural for twisted barrel ale

The mural on the wall is on the outside of the brewery Twisted Barrel Ale. It's a new brewery which has just opened up in Coventry. The imagery on the wall was drawn from an open brief- they wanted a representation of Coventry. Stewart chose to use the story of Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom to depict for the wall painting.

Steward Easton label and mural for twisted barrel ale (Artist Partners Ltd, Design Projects, illustrator)

Prior to the bombing during the blitz,  Coventry was a real pretty city with a vast amount of Tudor buildings. After the war the council pulled what was left down with a view of rebuilding it and making it a modern town -  but it was never finished.  As a reference to this Stewart have drawn lots of tudor style buildings based on the remaining ones in Coventry.
The labels design was once again an open brief, though  Stewart needed to have connections with Coventry.

Steward Easton label and mural for twisted barrel ale (Artist Partners Ltd, Design Projects, illustrator)

On the label design you will see the Tudor buildings, Coventry's three spires, doves (as a reference to Coventry being a city of peace and reconciliation). I drew a lad and a lass in celebration of the tag line 'more folk than punk' from the brewery.

For more of Stewart's lovely work please go to the Artist Partners website.

Steward Easton is represented by Artist Partners

 

Caroline Smith’s artwork chosen for the the programme of the Opera Salome

Caroline Smith represented by Artist Partners has just had some great news, that  one of her sensational images of Salome chosen for the the programme of the Opera Salome, which will be showing  at the Santa Fe Opera House opening on 18th July 2015

Caroline Smith’s artwork chosen for the the programme of the Opera Salome (Advertising Campaigns, Artist Partners Ltd, Editorial Commissions, illustrator)

Caroline Smith represented by Artist Partners

Larry Rostant’s portraits of Jimmy Edgar for DJ magazine

They broke the mould when they made this issue’s cover star Jimmy Edgar.

Larry Rostant's portrait of Jimmy Edgar is psychedelic, freaky, funky — and that’s not just his music. With a life well lived that’s reflected in the extraordinary scope of his albums and DJ sets, he’s not afraid to be different — and celebrates that difference.

Larry Rostant’s portraits of Jimmy Edgar for DJ magazine (Artist Partners Ltd, Editorial Commissions, illustrator)

A celebration of creativity, freedom and diversity is something that dance music should be about, but is something all too often lost in the chase for filthy lucre. Jimmy’s a star like they used to make, someone with something to say, and it seems that now more of us are listening than ever.

Larry Rostant is represented by Artist Partners

Larry Rostant’s portraits of Jimmy Edgar for DJ magazine (Artist Partners Ltd, Editorial Commissions, illustrator)

Geoff Hunt’s “Unknown Shore” is featured in the Daily Mail

Geoff Hunt’s impressive painting “Unknown Shore” is featured in April 16'ths edition of the Daily Mail in the Life section on an article promoting “The Wager Disaster: Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas” by  Rear Admiral C. H. Layman

Geoff Hunt’s “Unknown Shore” is featured in the Daily Mail (Artist Partners Ltd, Editorial Commissions, illustrator)

Geoff Hunt RSMA - (Royal Society of Marine Artists) is a internationally renowned artist, represented by Artist Partners, and famously connected to the complete series of Patrick O’Brian book covers for Harper Collins that have now become iconic

Prints of his work available from : https://www.mysticseaport.org/artists/hunt-geoff/ & https://www.artmarine.co.uk/

Geoff Hunt is represented by Artist Partners

BBC’s Antique Roadshow Detectives Visit Artist Partners

Earlier in the year the team from BBC’s Antique Roadshow Detectives visited our office to film part of an episode at Artist Partners HQ. The story centres around Shirley Thompson, an AP artist represented in the 60's - 70's  whose beautiful  illustrations were found in a skip many decades ago, preserved and cherished before finding their way back to her family all these years afterwards.

Shirley’s fashion illustrations are exquisite and the artwork rescued in this story were for a Burberry catalogue in the 60s.

BBC’s Antique Roadshow Detectives Visit Artist Partners (Agency Interviews, Artist Partners Ltd, Children’s Books, Editorial Commissions, illustrator, Publishing Jobs)

A lovely story and an interesting watch! You can catch the episode here and scroll to 16mins 27 seconds

enjoy!

BBC’s Antique Roadshow Detectives Visit Artist Partners (Agency Interviews, Artist Partners Ltd, Children’s Books, Editorial Commissions, illustrator, Publishing Jobs)

Artist Partners

Paul Young’s Exhibition of Works Spanning 30 Years

Paul Young showing works from the past thirty years of his career, with other friends from college.

 Paul Young’s Exhibition of Works Spanning 30 Years (Artist Partners Ltd, Exhibitions, illustrator, Publishing Jobs)   Paul Young’s Exhibition of Works Spanning 30 Years (Artist Partners Ltd, Exhibitions, illustrator, Publishing Jobs)

It was 30 years ago Paul Young and his classmates from Wrexham art college David Walker & Andrew Tudor had their final college exhibition at Clwyd Theatr, North Wales.

The three of them have revisited in the same space all these years later with an exhibition which showcases all of Paul’s incredible work from  his career as an illustrator spanning from his earlier airbrush artwork through till present digital work.

Details of the exhibition can be found here

Paul Young is represented by Artist Partners

Paul Young’s Exhibition of Works Spanning 30 Years (Artist Partners Ltd, Exhibitions, illustrator, Publishing Jobs)

Shobhna Patel – intricate and complex paper cutting

Shobhna Patel has a very unique and creative style in paper cutting and design  which is why Artist Partners  her agents fell in love with her work - she recently produced this wonderful design for her developing packaging portfolio for the website.

Her work is both intricate and complex, but incredibly beautiful, and Shobhna's eye for detail is really inspiring.

Shobhna Patel – intricate and complex paper cutting (Artist Partners Ltd, Design Projects, Editorial Commissions, illustrator)

To see more of Shobhna's beautiful paper crafting works  for both special book projects and packaging design,  please visit Artist Partners website 

Shobhna Patel is represented by Artist Partners

Sam Hadley – Cover Designers Awards ceremony

At the recent Cover Designers Awards ceremony - organised by The Academy of British Cover Design.

Artist Partners are proud to say that  Sam Hadley's  brilliant  book cover  image "Spiders" commissioned  for  book  two of the series  by the author  Tom Hoyle won the  Young Adult winners position.  The cover was designed by Rachel Vale from Macmillan Publishing  !

Sam Hadley – Cover Designers Awards ceremony (Artist Partners Ltd, Awards, Children’s Books, illustrator, Publishing Jobs)

 A  great creative  team  working together to  produce quality cover illustrations  for a unique looking  series of books.

For more information please go to the Artist Partners website .

 

Sam Hadley is represented by Artist Partners

Tinder by David Roberts – nominated for the long list 2015 Kate Greenaway Medal picture book prize !

Tinder by David Roberts (illustrator) and Sally Gardner (author) (Orion Children’s Books) as reviewed by The Guardian - has been nominated for the long list 2015 Kate Greenaway Medal picture book prize !

This retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Tinderbox is a beautiful book that is very much the inspired collaboration of the outstanding writing of Sally Gardner and stunning pictures by David Roberts which makes this book so absolutely special in every way!

David Roberts represented by Artist Partner's ! 

 

Tinder by David Roberts – nominated for the long list 2015 Kate Greenaway Medal picture book prize ! (Artist Partners Ltd, Awards, Children’s Books, illustrator, Publishing Jobs)

 

 

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