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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Congratulations to Levi Pinfold for winning the English Association's 7-11 years Picture Book Award for his haunting and thought-provoking fable, Greenling. Established in 1995, the awards are presented to the best children's Fiction and Non-Fiction picture books of the year.
Clemenger BBDO recently commissioned Meiklejohn artist Jean-Pierre Le Roux to produce a series of posters for Wellington Zoo's new "Meet The Locals" campaign.
Phosphor Art’s Poonam Mistry has just completed an exciting project illustrating a book containing stories and poems from across the Commonwealth. A River of Stories Volume 2: Earth was commissioned by Lift Education and The Commonwealth Education Trust.
Brummie illustrator Sweaty Eskimo (aka Tahgasa Bertram) likes to intertwine random elements and themes to create colourful visual soups.
Neal Layton created an amazing mural on the wall at Discover Children's Story Centre for the Big Draw 2015. He painted a huge bear called Bartholomew and, with the help of the children who drew and coloured bees and flowers to attach to the wall, a magnificent scene emerged.
Graphic artist Alan Dalby has a childlike Attenborough-esq fascination with nature and an affection for tessellation.
Gary Redford has once again worked with Hatched London to produce a stunning illustration for The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
Thriving Family Magazine commission Gail Armstrong to illustrate an article on resurrection.
With the issue published before Easter, the magazine asked Gail to work on two images to go with the feature 'Alive'. First was the piece on the title page focussing on the six stages in the life cycle of a butterfly, Gail wanted to make this a beautiful and elegant image; illustrative rather than diagrammatic. Gail explains "One of the issues with visually describing the life cycle, is the huge differences in scale between the egg on the leaf and the very dramatic butterfly. However, I wanted the image to flow as one piece, rather than magnify a section or separate the stages into 6 individual spot illustrations. My solution was to use the paper of the page to lift and form a stem and leaves on which of the 6 stages are displayed. By using a bright palette of custom-made marbled papers for the various stages and keeping everything else in white, the individual stages can be clearly read. The second image was to come at the end of the article and the client required a more "traditional resurrection image”, of the sun rising behind 3 crosses on a hill. Knowing where the text would sit, I placed the clouds so that they again seem to be forming from the paper of the page with the hill extending across the double page spread, utilising as much of the available image area as possible and giving the image a stronger presence on the page."
Gail Armstrong is represented by Illustration
Carrie May created these beautiful images for American Express' recent online campaign. Carrie was asked to illustrate four travel memories provided by travel bloggers from around the world. Her stunning artworks make us want to go on an adventure.
Carrie May is represented by New Division
