Natalie Andrewson

Natalie Andrewson is a comic book artist and illustrator who uses risograph printing techniques so that she can achieve in her own work, the vintage look that she so admires in mid 20th Century illustration.

Chell Young

I adored Chell Young's degree show at Edinburgh College of Art, I think it has stayed with me because I was so totally taken aback by it.

Chell has made tiny 'Fragile Realities' in intricate detail, models of the elegant Victorian tenement flats in Edinburgh, below, for example, the mirrors stacked against the wall are about 2 cms square, the reality created is breathtaking.

Below: is the front room with the bay window and below it the box in which this mirage is enclosed.

Below: is an attic crammed with boxed and below it the stilted heights of its box.

It was wonderful watching people explore this space and gasp with delight, transported like children into secret worlds. 

Izzy Bacon

Izzy Bacon's degree show focussed on ancient mythology, with some fantastic Medusa's and snakey monsters. 

Amy Steele II

'A sticky situation' by Amy Steele is a story about a fisherman trying to save his business by bringing his community together with a produce sale at which pride of place is a giant jar of jam. It all goes disastrously wrong but is beautifully depicted in Amy's loose watercolour and pencil drawings.

Luis Guzman Martinez

Luis Guzman Martinez's 'Cloud Landscape', Louis explores living organisms as biological architecture /structural sculptures.

Lee Lichung

Beautiful pencil drawings from Lee Lichung's solo exhibition 'Look Homeward Angel' about pigeons last December, where he explores journeys and ideas of returning home.

Sebastian Ilabaca II

Love this illustration by Sebastian Ilabaca and many others from his observational nature images.

Hanako Takahashi I

primitive, energetic and delightful this is the work of Japanese illustrator 高橋華子 Hanako Takahashi.

Satsuki Ioku

Satsuki Ioku

Kanae Kouno III

Beautiful textural interpretations of dandelions by Kanae Kouno.

Kanae Kouno II

Kanae Kouno's illustrations and paintings from her exhibition 'Planted' at Gallery La Monde

Kanae Kouno I

Continuing my plant themed week with work by Japanese artist Kanae Kouno.  

"Why was your heart moved?"
I am trying to solve the question by the act of drawing.
And I want to convey what I felt to someone who is not me.
Through my eyes, through my heart, form and color.
I've been in such me
I think that what is felt and the result of confrontation with questions should be transmitted to the viewer through the work." Kanae Kouno

Jonas Wood I

Jonas Wood's portraits of plants inspired by Henry Mattise and David Hockney, Jonas makes dynamic graphic stunningly observed plant portraits often featuring his wife Shio Kusaka's ceramics.