Image: Jeff Koons Puppy, 1992 Guardian of the Guggenheim. American artist Jeff Koon, father of 8, previously married to La Cicciolina (a former porn star and latter…

The Professor’s Dream, Charles Robert Cockerell

Illustration Now! Illustration Now! puts forward groundbreaking illustration work and focuses on leading illustrators. I’ve chosen two illustrators within the book to critique, focusing on style,…

The place we want to live in. I’m currently working through all of the Taschen Illustration Now! books and am including two illustrators featured within the…

Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes After looking at the role of matte artists and having reviewed Emily Churchill’s work, both essentially photography based, I…

Realism and naturalism are defined by those elements of the real world they retain…

Fantasy worlds Schlobin, The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art, writes: “The fantasy illustrator takes the pictorial conventions of realistic portrayal and then manipulates and inverts them…

I recently visited Stephen Wiltshires gallery…

“I’m obsessed with architecture, history, design and interiors.”

Fairy-tale castles With the intention of seeing how the visual world of the Harry Potter films was created, I visited Warner Bros. Studio Tour, London and…