Opening 2nd May - 5 - 7pm. All welcome
3rd May - 9th June 2013
tues - fri 12 - 5
sat - sun 12 - 4
A bit about the artists
Meria Palin
My name is Meria
Palin, and I am an illustrator, graduated from Cambridge School of Art.
Currently I live in Helsinki with my family but working internationally. I come
up with short narrative stories by combining ordinary things from life to see
where the story takes me. I mix recipes with times- tables, broken boilers
with balls of wools, birds with umbrellas, and now an owl with a guitar. And I
love happy endings.
Did you know that a Tawny Owl nests in hollow tree trunks whereas an Eagle Owl nests on cliff ledges and caves? This is an example of what I learned while holding Drawing Workshops at the Natural History Museums in Helsinki. Owls are amazing. But where would a Tawny Owl build its nest if there weren’t any trees left? Previous commissions include The Natural History Museum in Helsinki, Critical Academy, and Sieppo - Children’s Nature Magazine.
website: www.meriapalin.com
Did you know that a Tawny Owl nests in hollow tree trunks whereas an Eagle Owl nests on cliff ledges and caves? This is an example of what I learned while holding Drawing Workshops at the Natural History Museums in Helsinki. Owls are amazing. But where would a Tawny Owl build its nest if there weren’t any trees left? Previous commissions include The Natural History Museum in Helsinki, Critical Academy, and Sieppo - Children’s Nature Magazine.
website: www.meriapalin.com
I work part time as a Lecturer in illustration on a
Foundation course and write and illustrate children’s books for the other part.
I find it a very rewarding way to spend my time and I love what I do.
My work has been recognised by several awards including the Ronald Searle Award for Creativity, the Macmillan Prize for Children's Book Illustration and the 3 X 3 Magazine of Contemporary Illustration Awards. It has also recently been featured alongside an interview with Martin Salisbury, in Little Big Books, published by Gestalten.
website: www.trudiesberger.com
blog: www.trudiesberger.blogspot.com
Karin Eklund
My work has been recognised by several awards including the Ronald Searle Award for Creativity, the Macmillan Prize for Children's Book Illustration and the 3 X 3 Magazine of Contemporary Illustration Awards. It has also recently been featured alongside an interview with Martin Salisbury, in Little Big Books, published by Gestalten.
website: www.trudiesberger.com
blog: www.trudiesberger.blogspot.com
Karin Eklund
Following
studies in Art History in Uppsala and Madrid I moved to London in 2000. There I
worked at a number of contemporary art galleries and as Director of the Delfina
Studio Trust, a large residency programme for international artists.
Whenever I could I was drawing and painting and then, after 6 inspiring years in the heart of London, I moved with my family to a remote corner of the Isle of Mull, a Scottish island seven hours from Glasgow. Distractions were few and I finally set up my first proper studio in our garden. I started exhibiting my own work, primarily paintings, in group exhibitions and at a number of solo shows. I discovered a strong narrative theme running through all my work with new characters constantly developing and I was drawn towards illustration.
Whenever I could I was drawing and painting and then, after 6 inspiring years in the heart of London, I moved with my family to a remote corner of the Isle of Mull, a Scottish island seven hours from Glasgow. Distractions were few and I finally set up my first proper studio in our garden. I started exhibiting my own work, primarily paintings, in group exhibitions and at a number of solo shows. I discovered a strong narrative theme running through all my work with new characters constantly developing and I was drawn towards illustration.
In 2012 I
graduated from an MA in Children’s Book Illustration in Cambridge, with
Professor Martin Salisbury. Since then I have made the illustrations for an App
for the Ipad ‘My First Orchestra App’, with Naxos. I am currently working on a
book with the same company to be published in 2014.
website: www.keeart.co.uk
Kathrin Lang
I recently graduated from the
illustration course at the Cambridge School of Art in 2012 and have since been
working on several commissions. I particularly enjoy narrative illustration and
am especially inspired by folktales and theatrical subjects.website: www.keeart.co.uk
Kathrin Lang
Currently I have been working on a set of Shakespeare inspired posters for a client in Germany. I have also been illustrating a book focusing on the history and recipes of Arjuna Wholefoods (a vegetarian food shop on Mill Road)
Two of my drawings were recently published in Martin Salisbury’s book: “Children’s Picturebooks: The art of visual storytelling”.
I am a UK based illustrator who
specialises in narrative and editorial illustration. My work concentrates on
creating obscure worlds that play with the ideas of scale, tone, shadow and
pattern. I have recently finished an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the
Cambridge School of Art and prior to this I studied Illustration at the Norwich
University of the Arts. My work has been included in the AOI’s Images
competition, in annuals 34, 35 and 36 and I have recently been shortlisted in
the top 25 of the House of Illustration and Folio Society's competition to
illustrate Brave New World.
website: www.joanneyoungillustration.co.uk
blog: www.joanneyoungillustration.blogspot.co.uk Becky Palmer
I love books. I have always loved books: I got hooked very young, and would read while brushing my teeth, while tying my laces, and under the table at mealtimes (if I could get away with it). As an adult, I know children whose reading is just as avid and absorbed. I’m fascinated by the power books can have to swallow a child whole. I also love pictures. On discovering pictures I like, an immediate itchy eagerness sets in to go home and try it myself – the clearest sign I know of that this is what I am meant to do.
My passion for books and pictures
took me through a BA in History of Art and English Literature, and eventually
brought me to the Cambridge School of Art, where the MA Children’s Book
Illustration has helped me to fulfil a lifetime’s wish to make pictures and
stories of my own. During my time on the course, I have become very
enthusiastic about the potential of the comic book or graphic novel. My highest
aspiration is to make books that future children can disappear themselves into.
blog: www.bepalmer.blogspot.com
All images found on this site are © of the artist
blog: www.bepalmer.blogspot.com
All images found on this site are © of the artist
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