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Exhibition 2015/16

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✒️ Closing our festival's Day of Inspiration o

✒️ Closing our festival's Day of Inspiration on Sat 6 Nov at 4pm is an inspiring demonstration from print maker Jonathan Gibbs, previously Programme Director of Illustration, Edinburgh College of Art.

Jonathan works in wood engraving, drawing and painting. He was educated at the Central School of Art and the Slade, and then lecturered in illustration at in Gloucester, Bath and Middlesex before joining Edinburgh College of Art, where he was Programme Director of Illustration. He is also a founding trustee of Picture Hooks. His visual language is fastidious, linear and deeply sensitive to place.

🎟 at the link in our bio.

💌 A programme highlight from our upcoming Festi

💌 A programme highlight from our upcoming Festival of Illustration.

On Saturday 6th November at 15:00, Stephen Fowler, Senior Lecturer in Illustration at Worcester University, will share the joy and creativity of rubberstamping, demonstrating his expertise using rubber stamps.

Stephen is an artist, illustrator and printmaker and a Senior Lecturer in Illustration, Art & Design Communication at Worcester University. For the past 15 years, small press publications, rubber stamping and alternative printmaking have become the focus of Stephen’s authorial illustration practice. His prints, zines and artist books are held and exhibited in galleries and museum collections across the UK, Europe and North America.

🎟 at the link in our bio.

A typographical highlight from our Festival of Ill

A typographical highlight from our Festival of Illustration programme ✍️

Join leading expert, Dr Sheena Calvert, as she demystifies typography, focusing on the crucial aspects of the practice. Part of our day of inspiration Saturday 6th November at 14:00.

Sheena is a designer, artist and philosopher. She holds a Masters degree from Yale University and a PhD in Philosophy and Aesthetics from the University of Greenwich. As a typographer, printmaker and graphic designer by background, her research interests are an extension of her long-standing involvement with fully engaging with the materiality of print, as a form of knowledge about language (both visual and textual).

🎟 Programme and tickets at the link in our bio!

Another programme highlight from our Festival of I

Another programme highlight from our Festival of Illustration! ✨

On Saturday 6 Nov at 11:45, @davidmelling_illustrator will be showing us that it's all about the layers with an introduction to Procreate! International best-selling author David is an enthusiastic user of Procreate. Watch him work his magic, learn about his methods and ask him all your questions.

David grew up in London and became a freelance illustrator drawing for magazines and advertising agencies. He worked on several animated TV films including Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs and Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit. David illustrated his first children’s book in 1993.

🎟 Tickets and full programme at the link in our bio.

✨ Festival of Illustration Programme Highlight

✨ Festival of Illustration Programme Highlight

On Saturday 6th November at 10:45, Astrid Jaekel @astrid.jaekel.illustration illustrator and illustration tutor at Edinburgh College of Art, will show us how to collage from everyday materials, using objects around her to make images.

Having spent most of her life in rural West Cork, Ireland and urban Frankfurt, Germany, Astrid is now based in Edinburgh where she works as both a freelance Illustrator and Illustration tutor at Edinburgh College of Art. Her work is best known for its atmospheric and playful use of mixed media and large-scale cut-out silhouettes, featured as temporary or permanent site-specific installations, often involving stories from local communities.

🎟 Full programme at the link in our bio.

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