Illustration - Volume 21 -2024
Illustration - Volume 21 - Autumn 2024 - Issue 82
We open issue 81 with Professor Catherine Golden’s exploration of the art of Will Grills – an artist who offers a new slant on exploration and landscape and takes us into a reconstructed world of discovery and challenge. We move on to the intimate, dream-like children’s illustrations of Angela Cogo. Angela offers a fascinating insight into her artistic process, and we continue this theme with a couple of interview-essays, written by the Editor, on the lyrical wood-engravings of Howard Phipps, whose poetic vision has been put at the service of some classic literary texts, and the bold, otherworldly fantasies of Rodney Matthews. Howard and Rodney explain their work in candid comments and present a series of arresting images in a variety of media and using diverse techniques. All of these illustrators – Cogo, Phipps, Matthews – provide us with plenty of light and positive, reflective emotions, and the same is true of the work of the long-forgotten artist Peter Charles; Jim O’Brien re-introduces this unduly neglected practitioner, focusing on his designs for Monica Dickens. F. W. Townsend is another little-remembered illustrator and cartoonist who interpreted literary texts and worked for Punch. Continuing his series on British graphic artists, Mark Bryant brings Townsend back to life. But Illustration 81 has some darker tones as well. Adding a European dimension, Wilfried Onzea presents the moody, expressionist designs of the German Baldwin Zettl.
Illustration - Volume 21 - Summer 2024 - Issue 80
The next issue of Illustration (80) offers some outstanding articles. Jim O’Brien kicks off with a reflection on Charles Keeping’s wonderfully expressive images for Dickens. As Jim explains, Keeping takes us deep into the heart of the great Boz, visualizing his characters while recreating the author’s urban settings. Staying with the nineteenth century, Brian McAvera contemplates the reflective art of the French designer Rops, while Mark Bryant analyses the satire of E. T. Reed, the late Victorian cartoonist whose Prehistoric Peeps are a droll reflection on pre-history. We have some detective work too, as Goetz Kluge investigates the sources and allusions that can be traced in Henry Holiday’s bizarre designs for Lewis Carroll’s Hunting of the Snark. As for more modern times, the Editor indulges his passion for the films of Alfred Hitchcock – and their posters, works of art in their own right, which are just as suggestive as the Master’s weird cinema. Children’s illustration is well represented by Warren Clements in his essay on the wonderfully amusing work of Walter Trier, and Adam Beer completes the picture with a revealing account of his practice as the creator of Moggie McFlea and the Mammoth. -These comical creations will fill the winter evenings with colour and laugh-out-loud humour So plenty to see and think about!
Spring 2024 Issue 79
In the forthcoming issue of Illustration (79) we have some great artists! Catherine Golden opens the magazine with an article on Peter Sis, an internationally acclaimed illustrator whose dream-like, haunting images are illuminated by wonderful colours. We then have some wonderful work by Maria Greyn is, an artist of delicate designs, along with droll pictures for the young by Leslie Brooke, whose achievements are traced in an essay by Warren Clements. We have some sharp contrasts too. James Freemantle talks about his striking new edition of Orwell’s 1984, a book illustrated by brutalist images to match the text. Changing gear, we are proud to present a dazzling array of original prints by members of the Lynk Collective, whose recent works explore the life and art of Artemisia Gentileschi. These artists’ contributions are at the cutting edge, challenging expectations, but we have some left-of-centre Victorians as well. The late Paul Goldman is represented by his essay on George Pinwell, a lyrical ruralist of the 1860s, and the Editor considers the troubling illustrations of the infamous fairy painter, Richard Dadd. Brian McAvera completes the picture with an essay on the lesser-known satirist Charles Bertall, an influential figure in France. We finish off, as usual, with news, reviews, and details of exhibitions.