The Artist Partners Blog

Christian Louboutin has a new exhibition at the Design Museum, open from now until 9th July. I went to visit this exhibition and the infamous red soles that trademark Christian Louboutin’s shoes. It is a beautiful exhibition, exploring the history of Christian Louboutin’s work, taking you through is life and path to success. Starting out in Paris, working as a designer to a garden designer and taking in inspiration from across the globe. It is definitely worth a visit, just to gaze at the shoes if nothing else! It also makes you realise the amount of thought and ideas behind each and every shoe. Each one is truly a piece of artwork in their own right.

On the subject of fashion, we thought we would show you some of the work from our fashion illustrators represented by Artist Partners, to inspire you  further.   

These beautiful illustrations are by Sharon Pinsker. To view more of her work, please click on the following link: http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/sharon_pinsker/portfolio/index.html

These stunning images are by Lauren Bishop. To view her portfolio, click on the following link: http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/lauren_bishop/index.html

These stylish images shown above are by Caroline Smith. To see her portfolio, please click on the link: http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/caroline_smith/index.html

These beautiful images are by Annika Oleson. To view her portfolio, please click on this link: http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/annika_olesen/portfolio/index.html 

These gorgeous images above are by the artist Suzanne Carpenter. To see more of her images, please click on this link: http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/suzanne_carpenter/index.html

I hope you have enjoyed all of the stunning images and they have inspired you all! Be sure to check out further work by these artists.

Above we have an article in the UK Advanced Photoshop magazine, on Artist Larry Rostant, who is represented by Artist Partners. Also shown is the cover of the french version of the magazine, in which the article also appears in.

Larry Rostant is a photographer living and working in Great Britain. Although known primarily for his work in publishing he has a growing reputation as an image-maker across all fields. By his combination of photography and illustration Larry is able to produce work that has a uniquely illustrative aesthetic. His passion for imagery, constantly evolving technique and attention to detail has gained him recognition from clients all over the world.

Larry Rostant has also been mentioned in a new quarterly fiction newsletter ‘The Blurb’, from Simon and Schuster Children’s books. In the newsletter the first two covers mentioned are both produced by Larry Rostant. These are ‘Changling’, by Philippa Gregory, author of the bestseller ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’. The second cover included, by Larry Rostant, is ‘The Hunt’ by Andrew Fekuda, a book that was big at the Bologna Book fair this year. Below we show the two covers, by Larry Rostant.

To view Larry’s portfolio of work, please click on the following link: http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/larry_rostant/

Alan Kerswell is a new edition to the Artist Partner’s selection of artists that we represent. Above are a few pieces of work from Alan Kerswell’s portfolio. Alan Kerswell is an animator who has worked on many successful projects, including being the art director of Charlie and Lola animation series on TV. To view more of Alan Kerswell’s work, please click on the following link: http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/alan_kerswell/index.html

Here is a set of photo’s of the infamous photographer, David Bailey,  by our very own Brian Duffy from the 1960’s. Artist partners represented Duffy many years ago and was a great friend of David Bailey’s. Artist Partners represented many great photographers throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. Amongst them they had Adrian Flowers, Duffy, Zoltan Glass and many many more!

With the Olympics soon approaching, and the Queen’s diamond Jubilee in June, patriotism is running high and we are all preparing to fly the flag high for the UK. So we though we would inspire you further, with some images of the British flag by Suzanne Carpenter. These images are from Suzanne’s etsy site, aimed at craftspeople and artists.

To view more of Suzanne’s work, please click on the link:

http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/suzanne_carpenter/index.html

Above is a piece by Stewart Easton, from a new project he has started work on for a gallery space. The piece is called Florence and the Bear sing the birds to life. It is the start point of a narrative with a girl, bear, birds amd floating children.

This second picture is a drawing, by Stewart Easton, he has done for a project he has been working with a Hispanic group in Lemington spa. It is from a Costa Rican folk tale, called La Segua.

To view more of Stewart’s work, please click on the following link to view a portfolio of his work: http://artistpartners.com/portfolios/stewart_easton/portfolio/index.html

Below there is a link for artist Sam Hadley’s blog ‘Sam Hadley-vs-Slumber’ which will be updated regularly. Please click on the link to view :  http://sam-hadley-vs-slumber.tumblr.com/

Sam Hadley has been a freelance commercial illustrator since 1995, working on a wide variety of projects, from advertising and packaging to publishing and editorial. Sam has a variety of styles from photo-realistic airbrushing and retouching, to more traditional painting and drawing.

Slumber is Sam’s alias for fun personal projects and other less mainstream work. The main body of Sam’s work so far has been the SlumberBean. The creation and development of a sleeping bean character, illustrated in a ‘relief print’ retro style. Sam Hadley’s various other Slumber illustrations are all painted in a similar mid-century influenced style.

As Slumber Sam has had a solo exhibition in Bristol in 2011, and has shown work in several group exhibitions. The SlumberBean is featured in the Pictoplasma Character Compendium. A curated book of character design and illustration.

To see more work of Sam Hadley’s work, please click on the following link: http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/sam_hadley/index.html

To see more of Slumber’s work, please click on the following link: http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/slumber/index.html

Artists ‘Moose & Yeti’ and ‘Squirl’ are working on an exhibition ‘Hunter Gatherer’. It is a combined exhibition focusing indirectly on the everyday life of graphic artists and their correlation with the natural world.

A little background on the artists….

‘Moose & Yeti’ and ‘Squirl’ have been working in commercial graphic design and illustration for a number of years, they have seen their creative work reach thousands of people across the world, in many different countries. Between them, they have a combined experience of 15 years and have refined their technical knowledge and expertise in these areas.

Inspired by simplistic, naïve drawings and sharp, black graphic lines, Squirl has an illustrative style often focusing on a central obscure character. This directed focus enables the viewer to create their own history or story based upon the character’s stance, facial expression or the scenario that they are placed in. However, it is often just the shape or composition that gives his work a unique aesthetic quality.

To see more on Squirl, please click on the following link: www.squirl-art.com

Moose & Yeti, represented by Artist Partners, incorporates urban art with comic-book style illustration, using minimal colour for high impact which allows him to create striking and defiant artwork. A lot of his work concentrates on central characters, taking inspiration for themes from different social, cultural and historical settings. With a background in Advertising, Design and Illustration, Moose & Yeti has been able to realise creative ideas and develop them into finished product.

To see more about Moose & Yeti, please see the following link: http://mooseandyeti.com/

To view Moose & Yeti’s portfolio on Artist Partner’s website, please click on the following link: http://www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/moose_yeti/index.html

Here is a video of Moose & Yeti painting a live ad for the upcoming exhibition Hunter Gatherer, click on the following link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIbFO9famGc

 As Mad Men is returning to our TV screens and retro style is becoming highly popular, why not have a look at our retro artwork and designs to inspire you further. From vintage adverts, old school images and past fashion labels, our history of images will provide further inspiration to channel your own Don Draper or Betty Francis.

Below is a selection of our images from our ‘retro’ archive

 Beryl Hartland

 Caroline Smith

  Bill Dawson-Thompson

To witness more retro style inspiring images, see the following links: http://www.artistpartners.com/history/retro.html

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Christine Isteed will be in Bologna at ‘Bologna Children’s Book Fair’, on Monday 12th March and Tuesday 13th March..

Christine will be there representing a long list of prestigious artists:

Biz Hull - Illustrator for black and white internal illustrations for successful ‘My Secret Unicorn’ books for Kosmos. Biz is Currently working on My Secret Unicorn No 36 in the series

Bob Lea- Who has done a highly successful series for Paul Jennings – Little Rascal

David Roberts- Hugely successful illustrator and author of Dirty Bertie. As well as three Julia Donaldson books, ‘Tyrannosaurus0 Drip’, ‘The Troll’ and ‘Jack and the Flum Flum tree’

Gary Blythe- Kate Greenaway Award winner for The Whales Song, many beautifully classical illustrated books, beautiful painting technique and stunning black and white pencil illustrations

Helen Hurry- New book, published by Simon and Schuster, ‘Peepo! Boo! Who are you?’

Kimberley Pope

Slumberbean-New trendy fabulous character !

Sophie Tilley- Hugely successful Illustrator of Princess Evie’s Ponies, published by Simon and Schucter

Stewart Easton

Suzanne Cartwright

And many other exciting Illustrators…..!

Keep an eye out for updates on Christine’s trip after the 13th March…..

For further information on the Book Fair click on the link: http://www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/en