The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.
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Diana Mayo has created some beautiful black and white images for The Owl and Pussycat.
Her lovely illustration work was much appreciated at Bologna and London Book Fairs.
Diana Mayo is represented by 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.
A lovely story and an interesting watch! You can catch the episode here and scroll to 16mins 27 seconds
enjoy!
Paul Young showing works from the past thirty years of his career, with other friends from college.
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
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.
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
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 !
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 (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 !
Gary Blythe - the Kate Greenaway winning artist is ever pushing the boundaries with his wonderful skill of painting and he has recently been producing some images for his rather quirky portfolio.
Gary has produced this lovely painting entitled: Mad Maid - Acrylic on Canvas, this exceedingly talented artist is producing new images which have also recently been on display in various advertising agencies and exhibitions.
For this style and his beautiful painterly book illustrations please visit : www.artistpartners.com
Gary Blythe is represented by Artist Partners
In one of the most ambitious film restoration projects of the century The Russian Ballet Collection is the culmination of a unique, 10-year-plus assignment by RTRWorldwide to remaster and reveal classic Russian ballet productions, and their unparalleled Soviet-era stars, to a wider audience.
Designer Bruno Tilley, represented by Artist Partners, was commissioned on this special mission with the challenge of branding and designing the collection’s packaging.
In a way of enticing a new generation to these old loved classics, he asked fellow Artist Partners illustrator Sharon Pinsker to get involved and the results are stunning.
The collection features 5 DVDs: Giselle, Swan Lake , Don Quixote, Spartacus and The Nutcracker.
Each cover illustrates a dancer from the ballet depicted perfectly in Sharon’s romantic figurative style.
As a whole the DVD set look fabulous and would make a perfect collectors item for any ballet lover. The Ballet Bag obviously agree with us as they have the collection listed under “Five Xmas Gift Ideas” on their website
Sharon’s illustrations have been so well received that the Telegraph has opened a competition with the chance to win a full set of the limited edition prints. The prize draw runs until the 31st January so it is definitely worth entering!
There is more in-depth information about the restoration project in The Telegraph
Highly talented artist and embroiderer Stewart Easton (represented by Artist Partners) was commissioned to produce a large mural for Outline Editions Christmas Print Sale. The wall mural needed to represent the area of Stoke Newington.
Stewart was inspired by reading that the poet Edgar Allen Poe had been educated in Stoke Newington. The mural itself is displayed almost on the exact spot, where the school Edgar Allen Poe attended is placed. The image is loosely based on his poem "The Raven"
Beautifully illustrated Christmas story makes the second in a series of three books commissioned by Bloomsbury Publishing - the charming story of two best friends Amelie and Pilou Nanette and the trusty dog Pilou get involved in the preparation of Christmas ! Sophie is now working on her third book for Bloomsbury, and shortly afterwards on her other books for Simon and Schuster for the successful Princess Evie series - fiction, activity books, and picture books and growing ....
Sophie Tilley not only writes and illustrates beautiful chidren's books she also makes fabulous dolls, and creates characters, which then become her children's book ideas, she likes to imagine the worlds of the characters.
Sophie Tilley is represented by Artist Partners
