Lesley Smitheringale Fine Art

Featured Artist: Azul De Corso

Azul De Corso is a freelance artist, graphic designer and illustrator. She works for clients as Pepsico, MTV, Nickelodeon,Vh1, Unilever, Creamfields, among others. She also worked as art director for editorials in Mexico and Argentina. She is correspondent of IdN magazine.

Featured Artist - Klaus Haapaniemi

There is a beautiful ethnic, folklore and fairytale quality about this illustrator’s work and his illustrations are totally devine.

Finnish born, now London based artist, Klaus Haapaniemi became interested in illustration after seeing some well-designed Russian animations on TV when he was only eight years old. After graduating from Lahti Design Institute, Klaus lived in Italy where he worked as a key print designer for Diesel and Diesel Stylelab. Klaus’s long list of commercial clients include print collections for Clements Ribeiro, Cacharel, Marimekko and Levis, plus store identity for Selfridges, an ever expanding range of his own published books plus ceramics and wall tapestry collections.

“Kauris”

“Oravat”

“Castle Wall” Mural

“Hauki”

“Taika Cup Blue”

Klaus’s website is under construction but you can see more of this work at Big Active

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Featured Artist: Jacqueline Pytyck

Jacqueline Pytyck is an illustrator, a designer and an OCAD graduate, with an extensive passion for life and image-making. Her whimsical gallery contains an array of optical illusions, and conceptual pieces that focus primarily upon human nature and social relationships. Artistic influences include Japanese woodblock printing, Inuit art, Ukrainian textiles, and the surrealist work of Zdzislaw Beksinski. Her greatest inspiration stems from her friends and family.

Clockwise: Wandering Eye, Two Faced, Hot Head, Broken Heart

Fishy

Jump Illustration Website

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Featured Artist: Yehrin Tong

This designer, Yehrin Tong has produced beautiful work in a range of products including textiles, typography, music CD covers, typography, & editorial.

Mermaid Embroidery Design (Maharishi Womenswear A/W 07/08)

Honolulu Wonderland Repeat Pattern (Naughty S/S 07)

Yehrin Tong Website

Featured Artist: Alberto Seveso

This talented, young Italian graphic designer has developed a wonderfully innovative, fresh and inspirational digital technique which you can’t help but admire. I adore how he has incorporated photographic imagery with vector graphics, fantasy and organic shapes with a vibrant and decadent colourful palette.

My computer career has started around 15 years ago with an AMIGA 1200 and Deluxe Paint, i’m a photosohop user from around ten years and an illustrator user from six
i use only these two software for the illustration.

You can see more of Alberto’s work at:

http://www.recycledarea.co.uk/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/indiffident/