I'm Hannah, I'm currently a 3rd year university student studying Illustration at Southampton Solent University. I started here in 2009 and am soon to finish in June of this year.
This blog is to go alongside my final major project detailing my journey from conception to final realisation in a 'presentation document'. This document begins with the entry on 31st January 2012 and continues after.
I work with a variety of materials; paper cutting, photography, watercolour and drawing. I’ve always preferred traditional media to digital and have used my years at university experimenting with new materials and combining one or more together.
I’m influenced a lot by the theatre, especially set and prop making. Living in London, I am lucky enough to be able to see a variety of shows which feed their way into my work in terms of composition, style and creation.
I am also heavily influenced by music and lyrics. I love Listener, Florence and The Machine, Lana Del Rey, Fleetwood Mac but I listen to just about anything and everything.
Additionally I am influenced by the work of other artists particularly the artists of the Golden Age of Illustration; Kay Neilsen, Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham. I also like Czech art nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha and in more recent times I like James Jean, Elly MacKay, Lizzy Stewart, Elsa Mora and Gregory Euclide. Though I am being introduced to more and more artists almost every day.
